OddThinking

I have noticed my latest favourite word is “conflating“.

It’s interesting how memory works and the way we observe things. It’s particularly interesting how memory fails to work, and we don’t notice it.

The manager in charge of the test team was gossiping to me one day about the pain involved in running a stability test.

When I moved to Sweden, I was a little inexperienced with manual gearboxes. So my first day driving to work alone was a challenge.

About an hour after I started the check-in process, a horrid thought occurred to me…

I remember the days of using a terminal over a modem on a DOS machine.

It wasn’t that long after these dark ages that I started to use a Rational 1000.

Once I dreamt that someone told me a very funny riddle. […] “Cool,” I thought, “Independent verification! It really is funny!”

“I want a digital camera!” Mel exclaimed, “Tell me what type should I get?” It was mid-2001, and digital camera were just starting to boom.

I was doubtful. “I don’t think they are any good yet. Maybe in a couple of years…”

Julian tries to buy a printer. The department store has policies. Hilarity ensues.

I took the opportunity to ask a real estate agent about the House of Horror.

The answers I got were not exactly what I had in mind.