Conversation about content management systems on instant messenger. We were talking about Plone:
Colleague #1: BTW Why did [the University] abandon Plone?
Colleague #2: In Plone you can’t mirror content.
Me: In Plone no one can hear you scream!
Actually, to be fair we’re still using Plone for some intranet work.
Still, it made me laugh.
It can be embarrassing when you’re so tired you can’t quite find the right words. From the other night:
Gareth: My feet look so dry, I’ll have to … erm … liquidize them.
Jane: Do you mean moisturise?
Gareth: MOISTURISE! That’s the word.
I don’t recommend that you liquidize your feet. Unless you want to appear on an [...]
Jane: Aw… I’m sorry, I didn’t get you a paper.
Gareth: That’s okay, I’ve got the Internet.
Jane: It’s not the same though…
Answers on page 71.
Conversation with a colleague at the office colour printer.
Gareth: I’m pioneering a revolutionary new way of backing up the website.
Hamish: Is it Subversion, by any chance?
Gareth: No. I’m printing out all the pages.
Hamish: Well, if my kids grow up not knowing what a rainforest is I’ll blame you!
I was only kidding!
Jokey conversation with my friend James about backing up websites:
James: You mean you don’t have a paper backup of the website?!
Gareth: No we don’t. We decided that we didn’t want one as printing on paper is these days regarded as environmentally unfriendly. Instead … get this … we’ve decided to create an embroidered backup!
James: It’s [...]
Chatting with someone at work about coffee the other day.
Colleague: I used to make coffee for someone who just had a mug of hot water and three granules of instant coffee in it.
Gareth: That’s not coffee. That’s homeopathy!
Last night Jane and I were at her parents’ wedding anniversary party. I was chatting with Jane’s cousin Andrew.
Gareth: You’re a doctor, aren’t you.
Andrew: Yeah.
Gareth: If you were to eat an apple a day, would you have some kind of existential crisis?
The check-out girl was dutifully scanning our purchases, when all of a sudden she stopped and stared at two vegetables on the conveyor belt.
Check-out girl: Excuse me, what are these?
Gareth and Jane (together): Courgettes!
Check-out girl: Thanks. I recognised them, just didn’t know what they were called.
She looks at her product list.
Check-out girl: Excuse me, is [...]
Jane: We should write our Christmas wish list.
Gareth: We already have! It includes our own dwarf and an Eskimo.
Jane: No. That’s your wish list.
A conversation from this evening:
Jane: I’m off to bed now.
Gareth: Okay. I’m … erm, I’ve nearly finished the things that I … came to this planet to do.
Jane: Oh no! What are you going to do once you’ve finished them?
Gareth: I’ll probably just go to bed.
