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I wasn’t.

I’m not expecting to be selected.

Some technology humor from Joey deVilla at Global Nerdy:

Today’s Doonesbury comic strip gets its geography very wrong.

Mike says:

…and eye-popping background art, like this stunning sunset in Washington’s Cascades!

In the comic strip, Mike Doonesbury’s household is in Seattle. Yo, Gary, the sun sets over the Olympics, not the Cascades!

Doonesbury, 10 May 2009

John McWilliams wrote:

Wes Groleau wrote:

Nick Naym wrote:

Excellent! “AM” modulation, “PM” modulation, “QAM” modulation and “TCM” modulation too.

Every one a redundant tautology.

Yes, each and every single one is a redundant and repetitive tautology.

You can say that again.

––
Richard Maine

Based on cursory searching, this chestnut first appeared on the web in 2006. I just came across it. (I disagree with the Visual Studio curve, BTW.)

Editor learning curves

From GraphJam:

From GraphJam. This is great:

more graph humor and song chart memes

From GraphJam:

more graph humor and song chart memes

From GraphJam:

unholidaycards.com are selling cards with this cover art in packages of 10 for $10.  This is funny:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from relationships import *
from alcohol import shot, beer

def valentines_day(self):
    if self.dating:
        if self.money == 0:
            self.dating = False
        elif self.num_prev_dates == 0:
            self.money -= dinner()
            self.money -= pointless_gift()
        else:
            self.money -= dinner()/sqrt(self.num_prev_dates)
            if randInt(self.num_prev_dates):
                self.money -= pointless_gift()/self.num_prev_dates
    elif self.married:
        if self.years_married < 5:
             self.money -= dinner()/(self.years_married ** 2)
        else:
             pass
    else:
        while self.blood_alcohol < .08:
            self.blood_alcohol += beer()
        while self.blood_alcohol < .22:
            self.blood_alcohol += shot()
        sleep(86400)