Don't warm your pants in the microwave!

12:5601februari2010

This blog post is about my dear colleagues. Before I came to work at Kodamera, I believed that programmers were rather weird creatures. I know this sounds very harsh, but, believe me, I have met quite a lot of weird, nerdy programmers with a very “specific” sense of humour.

After almost a year working with our dear Kodamera programmers, I discovered that not all nerds are, well...aliens...hehe. In fact, they can be quite funny sometimes. I have to admit I enjoy it a lot when our guys crack CSS-themed jokes during coffebreaks.

For those of you that don't know what a CSS joke is (shame on you all, where have you been?!!), allow me to illustrate. Every coffebreak we gather in our little kitchen, Didrik with his "I love my computer" mug, usually jostling for his favourite position: "Come on! Margin left, margin right!"

Those who knows CSS language will understand ;)

At our weekly team breakfasts, we gather to eat the most important meal of the day together. On the last occasion, Hans had prepared the food - lovely bread, big chunk of cheese with other various delights which were all ready apart from the eggs, which were still boiling in the pan. Someone was losing his patience, pulling an egg prematurely from the pan: ”Test locally before you go live!"

You probably think that our programmers live and breathe programming. And, yes, you'd be right. :-S

One other amusing thing happened last week; Didrik had made a new discovery and came to the office with some sage advice, a warning, if you will: "Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to warm up your pants in the microwave."

He told us of his idea to warm up his underwear in the microwave (Sweden can sometimes get a bit chilly round the nether regions!). Everything seemed to be going just fine ...until he began to smell smoke! The pants had begun to melt. We collapsed with laughter while Didrik was telling about his melting pants – the appalling smell from which hung around for days afterwards. LOL.

Clearly, programmers, for all their brilliance with a computer, have difficulties with solving slightly more routine matters, such as drying underwear! Still, the only casualty was a pair of pants and we got a good laugh out of it, so I'm not complaining. ;-)

Thanks for reading, have a great day, and wrap-up warm “padding:0;” it's bloody cold out there. Brrrr!