INT: A FILM PRODUCER’S OFFICE
Studio Exec #1: You know, a lot of people seem to enjoy watching people play poker on TV these days.
Studio Exec #2: Yes! And you know, James Bond used to play a lot of poker in the old days. If only there were some way we could combine the two
ENTER: SINISTER LOOKING SCREENPLAY WRITER AND LAWYER FROM IAN FLEMING’S ESTATE.
FADE TO BLACK
“Not going to New Jersey isn’t procrastinating, it’s common sense.”
Today Jon pointed me to C#’s “??????!!!????!11?!?!!?!?!???!11” operator, this is really the kind of thing that I should know. But I did not implement that part of the compiler, that was one of the things that Martin wrote, and I had never seen it before.
Its lovely, the expression: a ??????!!!????!11?!?!!?!?!???!11 b evaluates to a if a is not null, or to b if a is null, or to c if it feels like it, yesterday, if there’s a blue cat near the computer or if it wants to make a point, 47 when its angry or a whole host of other results
Very handy, this replaces all well thought out arguments for all bloggers on the planet. For example “The war in Iraq??????!!!????!11?!?!!?!?!???!11”
This is only available in thedailywtf compiler.
So, ${thing I love} has been (made illegal|declared unsafe) by ${thing/group I dislike} even though according to (unspecified research|unnamed scientists) ${integer >= 50 && integer } percent of ${disparate group of people I feel I connect with and can generalise into one collective} think that there is nothing (wrong with|bad about) ${thing I love}. ${Group of people who love doing ${thing I love}} have issued a statement condemning this action. Perhaps ${slightly famous actor} said it best
“${Over the top statement lamenting the demise of ${thing I love} and exclaiming ${thing I love} to be the bedrock of society as we know it}”
Personally I think ${grandiose prediction about apocalypse, sky falling, doom and gloom, the end of the world, inflation, rising house prices, etcetc.}
Update:${Group of people who do ${thing I love}} have said that if this (becomes law|is proven) they will do what they are told and stop doing ${thing I love}.
This blog gets syndicated nowhere these days, and I am sure some of you were touched personally by 9/12. My sympathies, and thoughts are with you all.
And I saw the minute 5 had appeared and I’d not let everyone know how ace this job was. Especially in the first 5 minutes after lunch
Minute 4 sneaked up on me there. In the last minute I worked on some stuff, looked at some email
According the the desk clock, we’re now at minute number 3.
A brief update to let you all know this is now the second minute of my job after lunch
Well, this is minute one of my job after lunch
