Sunday, February 26, 2012

Short Story Titles For Perspiring Writers Of Speculative Fiction

I'm Anubis & You are OK.
[a chance meeting of a teacher doctor with the egyptian god of death who is actually some sort of extra-dimensional being, musings on death and that sort of jazz]

we don't want you to be yourself
[a satirical look at corporate culture and the irony of commercialism, through the eyes of one of those artistic expressionist types, symbolism]

"Please avoid visits to prostitutes in the future."
[a sleeper agent from an alien civilization masquerading as a human on earth, this particular dialog appears in a confrontation the agent has with a supervisor, kind of like an avatar vibe but low key]

The Tick-Tock Man vs The Morally Corrupt, Ivy-League Educated, Revisionist Historian Who Secretly Is A Hipster.
[comical look at superhero science and such, contrast the whole thing with a spartan society and western-ish timeframe, sounds like a post-rock song, probably is]

By reasonable approximation, tomorrow is a Friday.
[mandatory time travel thingy, school student testing out science project runs into some "technical difficulties", sort of back to the future ode, lots of retconning madness]

Aching wood
[a tribute to coleridge and pirate tales, aching wood being a reference to a dread pirate by name of captain wood and the narrator forever complaining of his wooden leg, spacepiratesyhorror!]

Making Space-Suits For Giraffes.
[light hearted look at how some of us might never be fit for the future, from the eyes of a tailor, couple of movie parodies could be fitted in, maybe who knows - haven't thought about this one, i <3 the title]

e pluribus omnomnom
[a bit like soylent but not quite, a nation that eats together evolves together... if that makes any sense, think olaf stapledon]

Doctor Who ..Dreams A Lot
[sly nod to everyone's favourite doctor, liking the wordplay in the title, must NOT be inception, something something dork side]

The Succubus
[a space exploration team discovers a new planet that could house the many and ever increasing children of earth, the first frontierspacepeople move in, THEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE, not saying anything else]

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Love Talking For Software Engineers: An Introductory Course





“I suggest we check for a secure connection if we intend to plugin.”


“I have seen you checking out my assertions yesterday.”


“When I saw you across the windowless six-person meeting room, i wanted to manage your dependencies right then and there.”


“Do you have a hashmap? I just keep on getting lost in your eyes.”


“If I said you had a great method body, would you hold it against me?”


“What if we reworked the test plan so that your code coverage came all over mine?”


“If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I D E together!”


“While the code is syntactically incorrect, I can't help but appreciate the beauty of your parentheses.”


“I want to import your package.”


“The moment I saw you across the room, I knew, your database would be worth exploring.


“Only you can set the breakpoints of my heart.”


“You’re a perfect CMM level 5.”


“You are just like Python. Strongly my type.”


“MY PORT 20 IS WIDE OPEN.”


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