oh, the pranks we play
The engineering team at MindTouch, while we work quite hard, do also enjoy ribbing each other every once in a while. Like other techies, we get as giddy as schoolgirls when we see a real-life monorail lolcat moment. (Caption: “MONORAIL COLLISION IN 3…2…1″)
Back when Twitter was the rage, a couple of us decided to goad certain coworkers into using Twitter by creating accounts in their name and posting fake tweets. These are the things we do ;)
Apparently, this mentality can breed a certain paranoia which lend certain developers to think there are conspiracy theories.
As I posted before, we’re in the midst of testing large changes to the way we store files on disk. Guerric, who has been diligently working on other areas of the code, (wisely) decided against upgrading yesterday in the hopes that the “dust would settle.”
So around mid-afternoon today, Guerric decided to finally run the update script. His update ran successfully, much to his relief. “Time to move onto the next item!”, Guerric mused. (I’m guessing)
But, almost immediately after Guerric updated, Steve pinged me in IRC with a superior change in the storage model which would require some level of scripting to correct in our trunk VMs.
Guerric, funny guy that he is, was convinced that Steve and I had colluded to make this life miserable (not entirely outside the realm of possibility) and skyped me this “chat” between Steve and I:
(The message at 4:06 is directly from IRC.) How G was able to hack our communication, I’ll never guess.
Just thought I’d share what I thought was a pretty funny moment ;)
And we thought skype was encrypted…
January 16th, 2009 at 5:11 pm