Chatting with Jack on UA... he mentions
The NIHilist. NIH=Not Invented Here. A consultant who never recommends adding to an existing system; always insists that everything has to be rewritten from scratch.
The guy has obviously solved the dilemma of "what do I do with my own legacy code". Like in the old joke about a man who comes home after two years' absence, kisses his wife, and then notices their kids playing in the mud, dirty as can be.
"Gee, Ann, should we wash them or make new ones?"
That's perhaps when I got the idea to collect programming jokes, i.e. jokes from real life, which by greater wisdom actually apply to programming. The other obvious candidate is auntie Ema, but that's not quite a joke, it really happened, to Fefi (qv. there).
On sezam, guys complain about the fried modems and whatnot. During the bombing there was no rain at all, because they sprayed the clouds and dispersed them, so they had clear sky to fly. Now all of the disbalance is evening out, and we have a rainy summer, including thunderstorms and modems fried by lightning (i.e. induction). The underground water rose, too, and the hole under the foot of the basement stairs is now a spring, and we have about 10cm of water there. Luckily, the freezer is already raised on two pieces of beams, some 12 cm above ground, and all the wires are at least 60cm above.
We did stand over the hole and paddled the water to make a slow slipstream, so the walnuts floating around would come to us. Fishing, reinvented.
Politically, there was turmoil around the country. Đinđić was called to court for evading military service during the bombing. The democratic party activists were beaten in Novi Beograd (one of them a pro karate fighter, so the attacking gang came well prepared). This was widely commented on aman. The B92 radio is still off the air, reopening is delayed for another week, „technical problems“, next deadline 26th. More water in the coaxial cable, probably.
At Zero, the server was scheduled to go down at 7pm. Emmy emailed to check on me, no news in a while. Told her that „That's the trouble. Nothing's happening. We've had more rain (including a magnificent thunder concert last Saturday morning or so), so everything's soaked, the weeds have gone wild, and mosquitos... well, I'm almost immune.
I had burned couple of modems during such storms before, so we unplugged this one each time. It just created a backlog... and I actually thought I answered the last one :).
So, I'm just stalled, nothing else. Delayed living :)“.