Wednesday 10 September 2008
Tuesday 9 September 2008
Hax0r Economist
I found some old webiste curios hiding in Firefox's Bookmarks so thought I'd share some, as opposed to writing anything sensible or worthwhile.
The first is the Hax0r Economist, casting Alan Greenspan in a whole new light (and shows the age of the link).
A favourite:
The first is the Hax0r Economist, casting Alan Greenspan in a whole new light (and shows the age of the link).
A favourite:
Cyxplycth, Abblefrobnok, Urrlgh!
I think a big indicator of society's downfall, not including it's inability to recognise my genius in monetary form, has been the lack of quality swear words.
Cussing has lost almost all meaning, and now a few f-bombs resound with a faint hilarity instead of an air rending shock.
New swear words are hard to come up with. Variants on themes (eg ass-hat) are ok but just don't cut it in the ear-curdling department.
The subject came to me as I was pounding out the budgets for GFoC* over the last 3 weeks (hence the lack of posts etc). I had around 10 companies to budget for and had spend 80% of the time on the first company as the formats were new and needed a LOT of fixing. So I've been spending all day, and most of the night, for the last few weeks trying to thrash out something that will work (One company alone had over 60 variables just to create the revenue model).
It wasn't until last Wednesday night, at around 1.00 am, when I discovered that instead of taking 2 hours just to format ONE division of ONE budget, I could do x, y and z instead and then the process would take about a minute.
a MINUTE ????!!!!???!! Cyxplycth, Abblefrobnok, Urrlgh!
Strangely, I felt underwhelmed.
* Generic Foreign-owned Corp
Cussing has lost almost all meaning, and now a few f-bombs resound with a faint hilarity instead of an air rending shock.
New swear words are hard to come up with. Variants on themes (eg ass-hat) are ok but just don't cut it in the ear-curdling department.
The subject came to me as I was pounding out the budgets for GFoC* over the last 3 weeks (hence the lack of posts etc). I had around 10 companies to budget for and had spend 80% of the time on the first company as the formats were new and needed a LOT of fixing. So I've been spending all day, and most of the night, for the last few weeks trying to thrash out something that will work (One company alone had over 60 variables just to create the revenue model).
It wasn't until last Wednesday night, at around 1.00 am, when I discovered that instead of taking 2 hours just to format ONE division of ONE budget, I could do x, y and z instead and then the process would take about a minute.
a MINUTE ????!!!!???!! Cyxplycth, Abblefrobnok, Urrlgh!
Strangely, I felt underwhelmed.
* Generic Foreign-owned Corp
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