I once heard there is really only one lawyer joke … the rest of them are true!
With that bit of wisdom in mind, we honor corporate attorneys today with another bit of wise insight from our friends at Dilbert.
Taking the “Keep it Simple, Stupid” school of thought to the extreme …
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What do you get when you cross Charlotte’s Web with the Internet?
Wry humor, of course:
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I was in a meeting earlier this week when someone referred to “Murphy’s Law” when they really meant to say “Moore’s Law.” Perhaps it was a Freudian slip.
Intrigued by the possible connection, I posted a short message on Twitter, “Question of the day: How does Murphy’s law relate to Moore’s law?
Thanks to two fellow Twitterers who responded:
@benpash’s suggestion showed some promise: “Things can go wrong twice as often every ten years.”
But I think @mdcougar nailed it: “The intersection of Moore’s law and Murphy’s law means the number of things that go wrong will double every 18 months.
I tweeted in jest, and really expected this post to be a joke, but the last response makes sense. As the number of transistors increases (a result of Moore’s Law), system complexity rises, causing the the possible interactions among individual components to rise exponentially. The potential for failure rises as well.
But it is Saturday. Methinks I think too much. May Moore, not Murphy, be with you.
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It’s late on a Friday night. I’m babysitting my granddaughter, reading the newspaper and perusing the web. A few comic strips I read today provide a bit of wry commentary on the state of things in our always-high-tech and often-maddening world.
First, a perceptive Dilbert has a calloused, but dangerously accurate view of market projections …
Both Louann and Gunther are searching for their personal identities …
Rat longs for the old, disconnected, but somehow simpler life …
And big media can’t quite let go of the old while it clamors for the new …
If you can’t read the sign, it says “Today in the Times: Print media isn’t dead! Go to our website for the whole story.
Call it “Societal Assessment by Comic Strip. A new professional-sounding name for my comic strip addiction.
And have a great weekend! More good comics in the morning.
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I got a kick out of the Frank and Ernest comic today. Sort of like Dilbert learns meditation.
It’s a engineer thing.
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I have long felt you can tell how fully technology is immersed in the popular consciousness by the frequency it is mentioned in newpaper comic strips. This year, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has reached the forefront. The following two strips appeared next to each other in my daily paper, the East Valley Tribune, on Christmas Eve:
Perhaps not by cooincidence, I awoke Christmas morning to a surprise gift from my wife, a Magellan Maesto 4250 GPS navigation unit. I’ll never be lost on one of my trips again!
This reminds me of when I was a junior engineer with Eyring Research in Provo, Utah. I used to pepper my boss, Dennis Fairclough, with all sorts of questions. One day when he was particularly exasperated with my frequent questions, he said, “Mark, I hired you to give me answers, not questions!”
The saving grace? Dennis didn’t have pointy hair, and he said it with a smile on his face! I’ll always be grateful for Dennis grounding me as an engineer.
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Thanks to Linda Skrocki for pointing out this bit of blogging humor. But all kidding aside, I think my publishing his blog is the single most postive thing I have done in the three years I have been with Sun. The ability to champion a cause, espouse an idea, expand my sphere of influence and establish both professional and personal credibility through my blog have been extremely gratifying.
The article which featured this cartoon included favorable comments about Sun’s blogging policy, such as, “Sun is famous for leveraging the blogosphere for goodness with their open blogging policy …” and a quote from Jonathan Schwartz, “blogging has played a major role in the revitalization of Sun’s reputation. Sun has gone from the 99th to the 6th most popular server company, largely because it has embraced authenticity and transparency in its communication initiatives.”
As I can almost hear one of my colleagues say, “Blog on, brother!”
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