Tech Humor?

On By JohnIn parody, sysadminLeave a comment

For anyone who has been writing code for any length of time, you’ve no doubt encountered the the occasional error of “TypeError: null is not an object”. The cause is obvious once you understand what different types can be defined. But the first time you encounter it without any awareness of what types are, it can be absolutely maddening to grok and correct.

Because I have a strange sense of humor, I renamed my iPad, iPhone, and notebook… with even less meaningful variations of the TypeError:

ErrorError: error is not an error

It seems the Apple TV doesn’t accept some variant of that naming type. Could be the inclusion of the colon, or spaces, or even the length of the name. Too lazy to track down the reason.

Also, don’t forget that the name you assign in the Sharing pane of System Settings is also applied to the system HOSTNAME var. The first time after a week that I’d opened one of my terminals, I found myself wondering, “Why is the .bashrc throwing an ‘NullTypeobjectis…’ — oh, duh…”

Hmm… I wonder if they’ll tolerate unicode characters.

Stimulation

On By JohnIn amusingLeave a comment

The 6th-grade science teacher, Mrs. Parks, asked her class, “Which human body part increases to ten times its size when stimulated?”

No one answered until little Mary stood up and said, “You should not be asking sixth-graders a question like that! I’m going to tell my parents, and they will go and tell the principal, who will then fire you!”

Mrs. Parks ignored her and asked the question again, “Which body part increases to 10 times its size when stimulated?”

Little Mary’s mouth fell open. Then she said to those around her, “Boy, is she going to get in big trouble!”
The teacher continued to ignore her and said to the class, “Anybody?”

Finally, Little Johnny stood up, looked around nervously, and said, “The body part that increases 10 times its size when stimulated is the pupil of the eye.”

Mrs. Parks said, “Very good, Johnny,” then turned to Mary and continued: “As for you, young lady, I have three things to say: One, you have a dirty mind. Two, you didn’t read your homework. And three, one day you are going to be very, very disappointed.”