comickal: "...this is a hump-off."

[iainpj]

bruised_blood: I hate them: As do we all. (Apparently, 'tis the season in businesses everywhere; we've just started. The depths of my hate for this cannot even be charted.)

...Well, that would certainly make waking up relentlessly interesting.

Well, yes. Exactly.

OK, seriously: is this really au courant in how to pick up babes these days? Really? This? No, really, people do this? Because I'm pretty sure that's illegal in, like, 37 states, and sternly frowned on in the others. (...Huh. Apparently, people really DO that. Who knew? Also, misspellings aside, this is kind of what I'd expect the result to be. And also this -- the example, not the definition)(No, not THAT. Ew.) (... well, ok, apparently, yes, THAT. And also, EW EW EW EW EW! And given that, it probably really IS illegal in 37 states.)

Mmmm ... donuts...

...Yeah, that's about right.

One of the reasons that I'm glad I don't do web development anymore. (And I hope Joel succeeds in his grand experiment.)

Comments

[nonelvis]

I haven't had time to go through these links yet except for the last one, which appealed to me for obvious reasons. I feel the Architect's pain.

[iainpj.livejournal.com]

When I was doing development at my previous job, it used to get weird because the department default browsers were Netscape and then Firefox, with occasional appearances by Opera, and making sure that it was strictly standards-compliant. This meant, of course, that every time we did a major update of the website appearance and/or structure, we'd get buried by calls and emails from home users, saying, "The site doesn't work in IE 4/5/6. I can't see anything," or "I tried clicking on that and nothing happened," and so on, and so on, etc.

We were also the department's general technology support people, so we'd also have to deal with staff ever so sekritly downloading IE and putting it on their computers and then unexpectedly breaking all sorts of theoretically unrelated things. "No! Bad IE! Bad! Quicktime does NOT belong to WMP! Mail does not belong to Outlook Express!" and things like that. It finally got so that our default position on any software self install was, "Make sure your critical data is backed up. We'll do our best to restore your computer, but if we have to spend more than an hour or two on it, we'll reformat and reinstall our default image, and you're going to lose all that stuff."

[nonelvis]

You had people voluntarily and deliberately downloading IE?

*cries*