Matt O’ Rama

Geek Humor

1936 – Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.

1936 – Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

1940s – Various “computers” are “programmed” using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.

from “A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages”

hahahaha. Except for the part about Perl. :)

Surviving an Internet vacation

I Survived my Internet Vacation
By Lore Sjöberg

Lore Sjöberg is one of my favorite humor writers. He did one of the funniest sites ever to exist, Brunching Shuttlecocks. I don’t think it exists any more but you can still get some of the goodness with this Wired column. He also has one of my favorite author bios at the bottom of the page:

Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become…(some new thing every time)

My new favorite phrase

I just read an article that contained my new favorite phrase: potentially straightforward. Any project you can think of is potentially straightforward if you know nothing about it. “Speaking as someone whose knowledge of geology could fit in 14 point font on a 3X5 index card, drilling to the center of the Earth is a potentially straightforward project.”

Things My This Girl’s Boyfriend Says

http://www.thingsmyboyfriendsays.com/

This is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. If you have a sensitive brain or are offended by naughty words, don’t click. NSFW if your boss can read.