Posting this here so I can find it later to show Tom. (And on the off-chance anyone else is geeky enough to get it and have a few giggles.) The Babel Fish on my laptop [the program is called Wanda I think, but I re-named the fish - it's a random fortune/quote generator for linux] spat it out at me while at Starbucks novelling, and I had to be good and not giggle out loud, and risk scaring the swarm of music kids at the table next to me.


      Seems a computer engineer, a systems analyst, and a programmer were driving down a mountain when the brakes gave out. They screamed down the mountain, gaining speed, but finally managed to grind to a halt, more by luck than anything else, just inches from a thousand foot drop to jagged rocks. They all got out of the car:
      The computer engineer said, "I think I can fix it."
      The systems analyst said, "No, no, I think we should take it into town and have a specialist look at it."
      The programmer said, "OK, but first I think we should get back in and see if it does it again."

Labels: silliness, technology