Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 7

[Mo1]

Are you kidding me? The girl is obsessive.. She's going to drive poor Jessie nuts..

Yep .. a real drama queen and she is driving me nuts too

Tonight I finally had enough and took the phone away .. I gave them a chance to work it out .. they didn't and now I'm stepping in ..

[Mo1]

WOW .. I agree with Grannie .. that was good

[Servant of the Nine]

Like Nully says....soaking can be good!

Or, as Idi Amin Dada called it, marinating.

So9

[lodwick]

A comment on schedules:
Ok, how long will it take?
For each manager involved in initial meetings add one month.
For each manager who says "data flow analysis" add another month.
For each unique end-user type add one month.
For each unknown software package to be employed add two months.
For each unknown hardware device add two months.
For each 100 miles between developer and installation add one month.
For each type of communication channel add one month.
If an IBM mainframe shop is involved and you are working on a non-IBM
system add 6 months.
If an IBM mainframe shop is involved and you are working on an IBM
system add 9 months.
Round up to the nearest half-year.
--Brad Sherman
By the way, ALL software projects are done by iterative prototyping.
Some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all.

[Darksheare]

The problem now is: Where do I take it from there?
That's the trouble with stories inspired by an image.
Once you run to the end of the original inspiration, it really is the end of the story.
Anything written after that deviates from the original.

Now I don't know what to do with it!
*Chuckle*

[Sundog]

Good one.

And the corrolary, If a developer gives you an estimate in time for a project, double the number and up the units. If he says 2 days, that means 4 weeks. If he says 1 month, that means 2 quarters. If he says 3 hours, that means 6 days, etc.

1 year is a special value. It means the time is indeterminate, and after working for a year he should be asked again. 1 year is typically the upper limit that management can conceive for a software project.

[Darksheare]

I shall summon... MY SISTER!
BWUH-HAH-HAH-Hah-hah-haaaa!

[Sundog]

I have found those images to be simply the work of devils building a supreme distraction from real work, in that they cook up an irresistable image and laugh all the way back to hell watching you decide what to do with it.

[Sundog]

Thanks Westy, I've started talking up a vacation to those places with my sweetheart, and she is keen to go there.

Can you build a fire on those beaches?

[ValerieUSA]

Thanks for the cute cat link. I liked it.

[ValerieUSA]

Sorry you're such a sickie lately catpuppy. Hope you feel better soon.

[ValerieUSA]

No, I still don't have a picture of a tornado. Maybe someday... That's just a little isolated thunderstorm - it was surrounded by bright sunny skies.

[Darksheare]

Here's the actual process in my head as it goes:
*Reading DD/Freoples thread*
*Spots image*
*'clunk- ca-CHUNG!' sound inside skull*
(Typing)
'And THEN the Vlu'urg battle formation....'
*Image is a frog on a lily pad..*

[Darksheare]

Good luck and get well.
Pneumonia isn't something to play with as we all know.
Please don't overly do it so that we can have you in tip-top shape soonly!

[null and void]

What are you talking about??

I don't know, I skimmed over some reference to it on another tread (I think maybe the Baghdad/UN bldg thread) Had the impression that our friends at DU were honoring you???

[Mo1]

Ohhhhhhhhh ... no it's not at the DU it's over at Liberty Post. I've been cut and pasted for a while, but this was the first time I had an actually thread. I'm special now .. *L*

[Mo1]

Please tell me you'll stay away from those tornados

That is a pretty cool picture, I've never seen a rain storm like that

[null and void]

Sick swervie, sick...

[null and void]

Sorry you're such a sickie lately catpuppy.

He always has been. Kind of un"bear"able...

[catpuppy]

Thank you, Mo. I should be okay, the doctor having prescribed enough meds to make even Swervie envious.