Where are you going?
I make no claims of people of the furgin persuasion.
The Furgin Persuasion would make a good hipster band name.
The first album by that band can be called "A new beginning".
With classic hits like "Oh Jaina, you're so tall" and "Where are we going?"
And a hidden track called "Combat log".
I admit a lot of my rant towards that guy is because I think he’s an arse.
What do you have against arses?
They’re fine as long as they don’t take up the entire body.
Tony Abbott has the personality of a wet Speedo.
[The latest Hunger Games film] felt like it was setting the scene for the next movie. But we all kinda knew the scene anyway.
I haven't been within several miles of the books. But I imagine at some point Kevin Bacon shows up and there's a dance-off?
Yeah, and he's naked.
"I call it my Mockingjay"
Anyone want to group for a random dungeon?
I wouldn’t object!
Disclosure: I’m not level 100 yet.
I don’t think levels 96 and 100 have any instances in common.
It is indeed the case that there’s nothing in common :(
What about Breakfast at Tiffany’s? If I recall, I think you both kinda liked it.
Maybe it’s finally time to rise up and overthrow our Furgin overlord.
He’s only a dwarf. I’m sure we could throw him pretty far.
I thought we were an autonomous collective?
I thought we were a furginocracy?
Actually, the guild is run by a shadowy cabal of healers, through a figurehead tanking government.
Rise up, DPS comrades! The time of damage dealing proletariat has come! We shall overthrow the healing bourgeoisie!
looks around for support.
“Sorry, too busy standing in fire.”
If you ask me to function before 10am, there may be side-effects.
I have a lot of respect for a candidate who will own up to their weaknesses in an interview.
Sure, but what about people who don’t have any weaknesses?
The Flash has no weakness.
The Flash’s weakness is a relatively short attention span.
The Flash’s main weakness is he doesn’t run on the iPhone.
dissolves a very small amount of jedi in water, then dilutes him repeatedly.
Carlfish: DON’T DO THAT! He’ll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Luke isn’t coming tonight.
OK, well I shall be a healer today then.
o/` We shall be healers / just for one day o/`
I HATE U2, MAN
I never got my unwanted U2 album.
Me neither.
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.
Which keyboard did you get, Furgin?
Razer Blackwidow ULTIMATE
Nice.
I got the Razer Blackwidow Penultimate, but I think I need to upgrade.
It is not insignificant. I used to think the same thing until I actually measured it.
I ordered an iPhone with a spare charger. Three days later Apple ships me a package. It's just the charger.
I swear, the company is staffed by cats.
"Let's play with him a while, see what he does!"
"purrrrrrrrrruurrrrrrrrrrruurrrrrruurrrr"
Exactly. You can't stay mad at it.
Right up until it scratches you in the face.
And bites your hand.
It can't help it, that's just how it is.
But then it licks your hand and makes you love it again.
The people in the next row are arguing about changing the gravitational constant of the Earth and I’m wondering how long I should wait before reporting them to someone.
I mean, we are at a heightened terror alert status.
I love using [Multi-Shot] as a hunter. If there are heaps of targets, it looks like a massive fan of arrows coming out of you.
I used to be a massive fan of arrows…
I bought chicken wings from the local chicken shop for $2 a kilo and cooked them and there’s something about them that’s just undefinably wrong.
I think they’re supposed to be for pets, right?
A kilo of raw chicken meat would be a really boring pet
With the amount of intelligence and rigour in all the federation’s processes, I would assume every person in QA would love Star Trek.
Then again, consider their fail-deadly consoles. I wouldn’t want to work with any system where finding a bug sets off an explosion in the computer I’m working on.
That’s fine if it only happens in dev mode.
These sort of mission-critical systems need to work perfectly in an Enterprise environment!
The linked article on duck penises is also quite interesting.
Note to self: When organising a meeting between you and someone else, remember to invite the other person to the meeting.
It’s sad, but I get so much satisfaction from that stage of defrosting the freezer where the giant chunks of ice start coming out.
That’s not sad at all. That’s normal!
I think our love of watching big chunks of ice melt comes from Sindragosa
Well, it beats being stuck in the ice block waiting for someone to defrost you.
Just make sure you run around your fridge to dodge the ice bombs.
imagines jirra laughing evilly at her freezer, shouting “YOUR PATHETIC REFRIGERATION BETRAAAYS YOU!!!”
Jirra, you totally should write your series of blogs.
It's on my to-do list. After “learn Klingon”.
If you write the blog posts in Klingon, you might not get the traction you were after.
Also, the Klingon phrase for Quality Assurance is “making sure they are dead.”
Today is a good day to test.
So there are THREE areas of badness!
The tests, the test environment, the product, and Unicorn. FOUR! FOUR areas of badness!
The tests, the test environment, the product, Unicorn and HAL. FIVE!
ANB Episode #3481: The one where Jirra turns into The Count from Sesame Street
A ‘Fragment of Pride’ - would that be a lion?
Monk healing is mega weird.
I don't think it's as weird as it used to be. There's not really a need for ‘fistweaving’ any more.
Oh, fistweaving hasn't been part of the rotation since well before I left.
…
“fistweaving”
Fistweaving.
I should take off that IRC notification whenever anyone says fistweaving.
What do you call it when a resto druid goes temporarily offline? A relog!
For some reason, these two reviews of a pier in Gdansk amuse me.
“pier review”.
slaps clepetit.
What’s a good gender-neutral alternative to “no-mans land”?
No-go zone?
Shattrath?
Abyss of mental anguish?
I’m saving “Abyss of Mental Anguish” for my first metal album.
Why is Mockito being shit?
You are trying to stub a final method.
YOU WOULDN’T STUB A CAR
quietly wonders if Jirra has spent a bit too long in the bliss… er… chillout room.
It was the only way to reach the necessary levels of mind-freedom to break free of traditional QA thought and preconceptions, man
I thought QA didn’t have traditional thought. Thats how they break stuff. Mind like water, etc.
Mind like a non-Newtonian fluid. It only flows freely when it’s not under pressure.
Do you think IT will accept “Because I want to throw my current laptop out the window” as a satisfactory reason for upgrading my laptop?
BTCYS.
“Because I threw my laptop out of the window” is a stronger argument.
becomes the change, and throws his laptop out of the window.
Wait... these windows don’t open.
“Also, I need a new window.”
I have a camera in my knee.
That would make wearing pants inconvenient.
I thought we dispensed with the idea of wearing pants ages ago?
I certainly have.
This is why Atlassian only makes t-shirts.
Yay for UI redesigns that mean rewriting a whole bunch of docs
I love UI redesigns. Love love love
I'm sensing a bit of sarcasm there, lolz
LOOOOOOOOVEEEE
So confusing with the whole “other side of the road” thing.
Every time I walked back to the car I was all like “SOMEONE STOLE MY STEERING WHEEL.”
Don't ever get married.
Why? I'm about to get married…
Woot! Grats!
I wrote three pages of notes for this interview and I can't read any of them.
Did you write them in Perl?
They will do anything we say.
"Make me a sandwich"
What? No…
Neko: sudo make me a sandwich
lolzcat is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Does the [World of Warcraft] movie have me in it? Because I'll be saying "I don't have enough energy", "that isn't ready yet", "I can't use that right now", and "I'm out of range" a lot.
I'll be the throwaway character that dies screaming "YOUR BOSS I HAVE TEN STACKS TAUNT NOW!!!" in the teaser opening.
What is he going to use all this trillium for I don’t even
He’s building a house.
Oh well, gee, why didn’t he just ask me for 40 Living Steel then, if he wants the blingiest house there ever was.
A living house? Are you crazy?
Yeah, maybe not the whole house.
Just the living room.
I’m very happy with the new skills template we’ve come up with in QA. It makes performance reviews really easy.
Is there a dot?
oh no
there should be three dots, dot dot dot
A PERFORMANCE REVIEW BY AXMAN13!!
ALL I CAN UPGRADE IS STRANTH!!
YOU CANT CONTRAIL ANYTHING!!
I used to do the Spider education talk at the Austrlian Reptile Park
Did the spiders learn anything?
I taught them how humans always like to poke them with sticks so they’ll stand up on their rear legs
My Dad always told me that if I ever wanted to attract boys, I'd have to stop biting my nails.
That's why I bite my nails.
That's why I attract boys.
That awkward feeling of realising I hadn’t been able to print anything because it was going to the wrong printer.
Someone on level 2 has been getting a lot of ponies lately.
If I was in a threesome with Furgin we would just argue about when was the right time to tankswap.
You’re missing the point of my question. What’s the best way for me to cause trouble tomorrow?
Show up naked
Turn up to work naked
LOL. We must both be thinking about denni naked. This is awkward.
How is that awkward? I think about the both of you together n… oh right.
Anyone else likely to play Titanfall?
It didn't really grab me, in the beta.
grabs Wobin in the beta
gently inserts commas into Carlfish
<o>
That's a Scala operator, right?
“Lift this function into a monadic context, forget about it for a week, then find it behind the couch cushions.”
Haha awesome, it’s a Perl script. I should dig into it at some point.
$9 cocktails every day. Limited range.
“Limited range?” So you have to stand at least 10 feet from the bar to order them?
“I’m sorry sir, you’re only 9 feet away; that’ll be $12 please”
It’s Monday, it’s time to delete my clone and make a new one.
I have been playing Assassin’s Creed IV because it came for free with my graphics card.
When I get into combat with guards, if I get far enough away from them I can hide in a haystack. Sometimes they get suspicious and prod the haystack with a sword, but when I’m hiding, I can one-shot them
So I end up in a kind of infinite loop - guard gets suspicious, prods haystack, I strangle them and pull their body into the haystack. New guard hears something, comes to investigate, prods haystack… etc.
I don’t know how many bodies are in that haystack now
goes back to the pile of QA candidates
Wait… the actual candidates are in a pile?
Yes
The bad ones complain that they can't do anything because they are in a pile
The OK ones contort themselves so they can get work done while in a pile
The good ones say “Why are we in a pile, this is stupid” and get out of the pile
that makes me rethink the whole "What's the worst that could happen" viewpoint when looking at applying for a job
I have a mechanical keyboard
I think one guy complained, but not very loudly.
Or at least you couldn't hear him complain over your typing.
Tits amazing how one letter can change the meaning of an entire sentence
How do I change a git commit message that has been pushed to bitbucket?
You change it locally, then use a force push to change the history on bitbucket.
Then everyone on your team shows up at your desk with pitchforks and burning torches.
Why is it such a big deal?
Because you're changing the past. Do it wrong, and you end up on stage playing guitar while your family vanishes from a photograph, desperately hoping your parents get back together before it's too late.
All while trying to stop your mom from sleeping with you.
That's OK, because at the same time I invent rock'n'roll
Great Scott Farquhar!
