Although the strip is amusing this type of humor always reminds me of an older Military piece of humor:
There was a new class starting at OTS and a retired officer was sitting int he back monitoring . After the usual instructions and class work the instructor presented the class with a field condition.
You are on an island with your squad under your command. Suddenly incoming knocks down the flag and flagpole. How do you get the flag and flagpole back up while under fire?
The class went around and around with many mathematical and engineering ideas on how to raise the flagpole and flag and each was declared incorrect by the instructor. After a while the class go silent and pondered their answers. Finial a Student asked the instructor what the proper procedure was.
The instructor looked at the retired officer in the rear of the class and asked if he would like to explain tot he class the process. The Retired Officer stood up and said: "Sgt – take some men and get that flagpole and flag the way it is suppose to be. "
Point being Officers delegate responsibility to those with the time and muscle to handle the grunt work. A VP may want to know or learn machine language – but does not need to known it by this afternoon.
Life changing events always happen to me on the 13th regardless of the day of the week. Like today, I start a job assignment from a temp service that I did not apply for and will probably receive less pay than unemployment due to the taxes being taken out even though the pay wage is a dollar more.
Friday the thirteenth is still….a Friday. Mondays are inherently evil (and must be… Oops, that’s for another time), and when compounded with the Number 13, surpass the minor annoyance that is Friday the 13th. (OK, y’all. Sans Google, how did Friday the 13th get its reputation as an ill omen? Remember, if you have to go to Wikipedia or Google, it doesn’t count!)
The strip does remind me of Walt Kelly’s Pogo; Churchy was afraid of Friday the Thirteenth no matter what day it fell on. Pogo was one of the greatest strips ever written and brought political satire to new heights.
trying to write something witty here, but all is replaced by murderous thoughts.. anyway, doesn’t he have an all powerful girlfriend that can convert both Rita and the vp into slugs or something like that?Either that or plan b: Put Rita and the vp in some kind of maze that will kill them in 4 hours if they don’t get out of the maze in that time, and the only way to get out is to solve something in assembler (maybe some weird micro-controller assembler or something like that to make it more interesting), and give them the manual (that means, is up to them if they are able to survive if they can read fast enough and if they have the required previous knowledge, like knowledge about the architecture of the controller, the memory manage and stuff)
I used to write in machine language on a Motorola 6800 because it took too long and was too much trouble to load the assembler via the paper tape reader. It’s been a very long time since I debugged programs with an oscilloscope. ;)
Up until 2000, I was using and maintaining a computerized test fixture that was dumber than a VIC-20. It used two 8008 chips with external math coprocessors to run in 16 bits. The ONLY language it spoke was machine. When they shut down the plant due to consolidation, I left the company and they decided to deep six the fixture because no one was left who knew how to maintain it.
Just teach him to program Wolfram’s two state three symbol Universal Turing machine; it can do anything more complicated computers can do. If the VP actually writes any code, would take two minutes to implement that Turing machine on any real computer using scripting language or whatever.
LeoAutodidact over 9 years ago
“Friday the 13th’s being sneaky, it came on a MONDAY!”
-Walt Kelly’s Pogo Character Churchy Le Femme
Agent54 over 9 years ago
Although the strip is amusing this type of humor always reminds me of an older Military piece of humor:
There was a new class starting at OTS and a retired officer was sitting int he back monitoring . After the usual instructions and class work the instructor presented the class with a field condition.
You are on an island with your squad under your command. Suddenly incoming knocks down the flag and flagpole. How do you get the flag and flagpole back up while under fire?
The class went around and around with many mathematical and engineering ideas on how to raise the flagpole and flag and each was declared incorrect by the instructor. After a while the class go silent and pondered their answers. Finial a Student asked the instructor what the proper procedure was.
The instructor looked at the retired officer in the rear of the class and asked if he would like to explain tot he class the process. The Retired Officer stood up and said: "Sgt – take some men and get that flagpole and flag the way it is suppose to be. "
Point being Officers delegate responsibility to those with the time and muscle to handle the grunt work. A VP may want to know or learn machine language – but does not need to known it by this afternoon.
Observer fo Irony over 9 years ago
Life changing events always happen to me on the 13th regardless of the day of the week. Like today, I start a job assignment from a temp service that I did not apply for and will probably receive less pay than unemployment due to the taxes being taken out even though the pay wage is a dollar more.
Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 9 years ago
Friday the thirteenth is still….a Friday. Mondays are inherently evil (and must be… Oops, that’s for another time), and when compounded with the Number 13, surpass the minor annoyance that is Friday the 13th. (OK, y’all. Sans Google, how did Friday the 13th get its reputation as an ill omen? Remember, if you have to go to Wikipedia or Google, it doesn’t count!)
Bernard Epperson Premium Member over 9 years ago
The strip does remind me of Walt Kelly’s Pogo; Churchy was afraid of Friday the Thirteenth no matter what day it fell on. Pogo was one of the greatest strips ever written and brought political satire to new heights.
LeePIII Premium Member over 9 years ago
Idubitibly.
redback over 9 years ago
trying to write something witty here, but all is replaced by murderous thoughts.. anyway, doesn’t he have an all powerful girlfriend that can convert both Rita and the vp into slugs or something like that?Either that or plan b: Put Rita and the vp in some kind of maze that will kill them in 4 hours if they don’t get out of the maze in that time, and the only way to get out is to solve something in assembler (maybe some weird micro-controller assembler or something like that to make it more interesting), and give them the manual (that means, is up to them if they are able to survive if they can read fast enough and if they have the required previous knowledge, like knowledge about the architecture of the controller, the memory manage and stuff)
Carl R over 9 years ago
I used to write in machine language on a Motorola 6800 because it took too long and was too much trouble to load the assembler via the paper tape reader. It’s been a very long time since I debugged programs with an oscilloscope. ;)
mr_sherman Premium Member over 9 years ago
Up until 2000, I was using and maintaining a computerized test fixture that was dumber than a VIC-20. It used two 8008 chips with external math coprocessors to run in 16 bits. The ONLY language it spoke was machine. When they shut down the plant due to consolidation, I left the company and they decided to deep six the fixture because no one was left who knew how to maintain it.
RalphZIggy over 9 years ago
Just teach him to program Wolfram’s two state three symbol Universal Turing machine; it can do anything more complicated computers can do. If the VP actually writes any code, would take two minutes to implement that Turing machine on any real computer using scripting language or whatever.