Archive for the 'Cultural' Category
Every job affects the way you communicate. After a while, you don’t really realize your special lingo or the alternate meanings that words and sayings acquire. Here’s a list of ten phrases/words that web developers interpret differently from other occupations.
“Checkout the trunk”
Web Developer: “Using svn, right?”
Zoologist: “Yeah, that’s an amazing elephant!”
“That back end […]
Or don’t, whatever works. If you are trying to stop something from happening in the future, what do you do? I would try to find out the motivation for the action(s) and eliminate that motivation. For instance, if I knew that a car would crash into a tree, I would do something […]
As a capitalist country, we all seem to be trained to shy away from anything that might be socialist. “Healthcare for everyone? That’s crazy talk!” We think certain people don’t deserve healthcare, because of any number of factors. We might think that poor people are lazy, so they should not have […]
Reliving childhood excitement, I’ve been eating string cheese lately. Ah, those were the days, when the mere form of food could keep us entertained… On each package is a riddle with the answer inside. Today’s was “What did the belt get arrested for?” I started to think, “Sheesh, that’s harsh. […]
I was just noticing that I haven’t pissed anyone off for at least a dozen blog entries, so I thought I’d pick up a hot topic. The N-word always seems to be in the news. Any time a white guys says the word, particularly one who fancies himself as a comedian, shit hits […]
