<Xach> POJOs
<nug> no such thing
<dblaine> all java objects are special
<nug> in today's java world a POJO needs default constructor, getter and setter for each instance var, implements Serializable, implements hashCode(), implements equals(), implements toString()
<nug> am I missing anything?
<nug> unless POJO now stands for PileOfJavaObject
<pretsel> that pojo could shine if it would just let it's hair down and lost those glasses
<pretsel> maybe a outfit that showed of its figure instead of those baggy sweat shirts

<martel> American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology
L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes "scream when sliced."
<DrLazyBoy> I guess if you could create a religion that believes that humans were
put on the earth 50,000 yrs ago by aliens, anything else is possible...
<cheesy> Who is to say that a tomato doesn't have some sort of nervous system
<archon> me
<archon> a tomato doesn't have some sort of nervous system

<reamer_rick> trench foot presents fairly infrequently in IT workers but is not unprecedented

"Every family should have a lever gun behind the kitchen door, if only to run off the the man from the bank."   -- Jason Steiner

re: "Bank of America forecloses on house that couple had paid cash for"

<*pretsel*> did you watch the evil sheep video?
<*nug>pretsel*> no!  I forgot
<*pretsel*> you are missing out on the biggest meme on the internets
<*pretsel*> it is taking over 
<*nug>pretsel*> omg
<*nug>pretsel*> ok, the link is on my google calendar now
<*pretsel*> I just hate for you to be a day behind on your memes
<*nug>pretsel*> it is ok
<*nug>pretsel*> I'm over 40
<*pretsel*> damn!  I forgot about you being so old

< reamer_rick> Ah another fine day in the bit mines.  The sound of my co-workers patronizing each other wafting gently in the breeze.
< reamer_rick> Will a sissy slapfight break out?  Who knows?  Who cares?
< arcas> what are they fighting about?
< reamer_rick> how best to do each other's jobs instead of their own
< reamer_rick> I ran out of new music so I'm eavesdropping on them for a change.

"Some day you will move me almost to the verge of irritation by your chuckleheaded 
Goddamned fashion of shutting your Goddamned gas off without giving any notice to 
your Goddamned parishioners. Several times you have come within an ace of 
smothering half of this household in their beds & blowing up the other half by 
this idiotic, not to say criminal, custom of yours. And it has happened again to-
day. Haven’t you a telephone?

– Letter from Mark Twain to the Hartford City Gas Light Company, Feb. 12, 1891
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2010/01/26/customer-service/

< pretsel> it is a damn cold day to be grilling steaks.  but I guess that is why they were on sale
- Jan 26, 2009

<snadra> wow, it is suddenly snowing like crazy hard and it's windy enough to shake the house
<pretsel> woof.  I'm glad it is cass that is walking over to pick up paige from school and not me

< dblaine> i still can't stop trying to estimate the number of buttholes john mayer sees before breakfast :(
< Xach> prepping for a microsoft job interview?