http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/tag/humor en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>I saw this photo of the Microsoft team from 1978 on <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/anselmhook/1498377919/">Anselm&#8217;s flickr</a> and thought, &#8220;Hmm, that looks like Chad Fowler!&#8221;</p> <p><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/chad_fowler_in_78-20071006-130251.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Could this be <a href="http://chadfowler.com/">Chad Fowler&#8217;s</a> dirty little secret?..</p> <p><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/imgp5302.png__png_image__413x416_pixels_-20071006-125640.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Happy Saturday!</p> Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:00:00 -0500 urn:uuid:c6f3710c-4bbc-415c-8bb4-17107749a5e0 Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/10/06/chads-dirty-little-secret Off-Topic Ruby on Rails Ruby Programming sarcasm humor chad chadfowler rubyonrails rails microsoft <p>It must be a Friday.</p> <p><img src="http://www.friedmanarchives.com/China/Page1/thumbnails/headache%20on%20Phone.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>I got a call about 30 minutes ago from a relay service for someone who can&#8217;t speak and needs to use a keyboard to type. So, I accept the call and think it could be a hosting customer, development inquiry&#8230; who knows. Immediately, I hear the relay operator say, &#8220;I have a stack trace for you.&#8221;</p> <p>I then listened to a woman repeat&#8230; <strong>character by character</strong>... the entire stack trace for an error in a Rails application. I listened&#8230; the whole way through&#8230; just in case it was a person who needs <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/development.html">Rails development</a>.</p> <p>My developer staff then laughs after I hang up after 20 minutes&#8230; and I think to myself&#8230; how do I get back at them. o.0</p> Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:51:00 -0500 urn:uuid:6219c67f-a2dd-4074-854f-dc5403803394 Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/04/28/stack-trace-to-speech Ruby on Rails planetargon jvoorhis peat jason_watkins humor <p>I was pointed to the <a href="http://jlpicard.blogspot.com/">Captain Picard blog</a>... <em>&#8220;The neutral planet of Argon has been selected for the meeting; there is a friendly non-Federation population there, who will host it while we discuss matters.&#8221;</em></p> <p>Heh&#8230; I don&#8217;t recall hosting the Peace Conference between the Klingons and the Romulans.</p> <p><a href="http://jlpicard.blogspot.com/2005/12/peace-conference.html">Read the post</a>...</p> Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:57:00 -0600 urn:uuid:bf269c80-6372-4794-b978-c4ae71ad657f Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/11/planet-argon-to-host-peace-conference humor planetargon