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Oops, there I go making a post and forgetting the amusing quote after it. OK, amusing quote on the theme of going to a movie, from the blog naploeon.com "Because the world obviously needed another short opinionated big-nosed man of French descent", which often has amusing descriptions of computer stuff:

Nerd 1: Let’s go to a movie.

Nerd 2: What movie?

Nerd 3: We could check Yahoo’s movie listings.

Nerd 2: Cool. I’ll start writing an app to scrape the Yahoo listings site.

Nerd 1: We could use Regex.

Nerd 3: Duh. We have to use Regex - what I’m worried about is how we’re going to display the results.

Nerd 1: RSS?

Nerd 2: RSS isn’t flexible enough for what I think we should do with this – let’s go with ATOM.

Nerd 1: Fine. But what about people who are going to view our scraped listings from their cell phones? Wouldn’t it be cool if they could get movie listings while they’re already in line for the movie for which they want listings?

Nerd 3: Totally. But where are we going to host it?

Nerd 2: Hey – weren’t we planning on going to a movie?

Nerd 3: Dude… off topic. We’ll never get this done if you want to keep taking breaks.

And so on.

Of course, the thing is, it's so *true*. I can't discuss any topic without diving off into linguistics. My idea of humour is pedantry. I'm pathologically addicted to the most efficient route/method/plan even when it's not worth the time to decide, or another is pleasanter. Aren't geeks cuddly?

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