Dude 1: “What language are you using?”
Dude 2: “Dude!”
Dude 1: “Sweet! What language are you using?”

Does that make you a duder?

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Talking in IM with someone who is now hacking on and in Eclipse full time:

me: what’s happenin’?
him: I’m neck-deep in Eclipse guts. You?
me: How much do you love Eclipse now?
him: I wouldn’t say love, but I definitely respect it. Kind of like a bear or lion.

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From the jaxen-user list, in a response to someone asking for XPath 2.0 support (a HUGE amount of work), from baz:

To sum up: its hard, we’re lazy, and you’re the first person who’s asked…

This begs to be a standard email response template…

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From Ken Norton:

(I was also slightly flabbergasted by their Godzilla-barfs-a-box-of-Crayolas site redesign but that’s another problem).

I like the metaphor.

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In a recent IM conversation with Geof, he summed up best the ability of man to wield power gracefully (or lack of ability, as the case may be):

[08:58] geof: It is not for me to sway men’s souls.
[08:58] geof: If I could do that, I would be a god.
[08:58] geof: And, frankly, I would be one evil motherfucker of a god!

I can only totally agree on this. And thanks to Geof for letting me quote him in IM.

And who knew Geof owned a whole network? He’s like Ted Turner, only human and reachable.

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Overheard in a phone conversation:

You can have 2 user ids, but you cannot have the same user id twice!

Obviously talking about some database constraint, but trying to explain that constraint to an end user is, well, less than successful.

Popularity: 33%