metatwork, part III

Happy pi day. At first I thought it's strange that we nerds don't celebrate e days but then I realized I'm stupid.



From: Lukasz Strozek
To: Nick Elprin
Subject: RE: I'm very proud of myself

Well, it's quite sim... WAIT A MINUTE!



From: Nicholas Elprin
To: Lukasz Strozek
Subject: RE: I'm very proud of myself

why do you think that made you feel good?



From: Lukasz Strozek
To: Nicholas Elprin
Subject: I'm very proud of myself

Today at the interview I did the Nick thing: stop and ask the candidate to be introspective. It feels good, like a sudden wave of cool.

metatwork, part II

Today Hassan rolled out a fix to a standard include file used for builds. In the Tech Notification he wrote

This is rolled out. I created a build file to deploy common.include and used that to deploy.

I am always excited to see another blog take on the subject of meta.

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/03/basics_going_meta_1.php

[the statement above is a lie; this is the first time I saw that and I was somewhat excited.]

metatwork, part I

Nick sent me this email today.

Today in the research meeting, steve was complaining that john wasn't
giving him accurate estimates on when steve's tickets would be
completed. John told steve he should open a ticket for the tickets with
bad completion estimates.

The Onion

Nick found this in the Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/59345?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

I nominate it for the metaAward of the year.