Dilbert comic strip for 02/11/2012 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.
I always feel a strange mixture of deep disappointment and contented amusement when Dilbert accurately reflects my working life.
Call me a hand-wringing killjoy, but there is something a bit alarming about this talk of what the public wants and the people want to hear, and how it trumps such footling niceties as the law and due process.
— Banker bashing in Britain: When the Daily Mail and Polly Toynbee are united in self-righteous anger, be afraid | The Economist
The Front Line
I’ve been on support for the last six weeks - and have been doing some sort of support for virtually my entire IT ‘career’ - and reading this is the first time in a long time I’ve felt proud of doing so.
Whenever someone calls anything “cumbersome,” punch them in the face and yell, “Cumbersome? Cumber-all! Cumberbatch!
— Things I Would Do If My Name Were “Benedict Cumberbatch” « Thought Catalog
I realize there’s a narrative that America is all done, and doesn’t make stuff any more, and it’s midnight for the American experiment and all that, but that ignores the basic mathematics of a country with three hundred million people in it. For every bunch of dubiously photogenic fetal-alcohol-syndrome cases from New Jersey who get on the TV for ten minutes, there are ten times as many people at MIT inventing the future.
— Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America | Motherboard
