If you want to be really evil make it mostly work right, and only invoke the bogus logic of the 5th bit of the first argument is set or something, so it fires maybe 1/10
Or 1/20
Sunnyvale Goodwill is the best for this. I don't know why but I always get a kick out of seeing mugs for things like NASA projects from the 90s or some Intel internal milestone award where the mug is just covered with acronyms that mean absolutely nothing to outsiders. Absolutely the best store shelf in the whole city.
I was just there for the first time and passed on a Sun Microsystems coffee mug, which I regret. I was really missing Weird Stuff, though. Haven't lived down that way for a decade.
Some of this is going into the background of interview videos to back up the claims people make of having worked at places that no longer exist and can't be verified.
As an ex-Twitter employee who started a new job at the start of the year, I can confirm that they did not respond to inquiries from the company that performed my background check. There was some back-and-forth with the recruiter at my new gig about it, until I reminded him that the reason my boss recommended me was because I worked with him at Twitter.
I had one of DEC’s t-shirts, The Network is the Network and the Computer is the Computer. We regret the confusion. But no one got the joke anymore and I let it slip away.
I have a first edition Enterprise Java Beans T-shirt and a Mozilla Developer Conference circa 1997
And a Microsoft Test one that won me an “oldest T-shirt contest.
I still have a stack of mousepads from Sun from when I purchased servers by the truckload (and after they gave up on optical mouses).
Fortunately, I still use a mouse at my desk. I hope to work through my collection in this lifetime.
Unfortunately, the art on them is of inconsistent appeal:
- "The Network is the Computer": corporate-lame art
- "The Dot in Dot-Com": OK art, slogan still funny
- "Ultracomputing": Decent art, least-fun slogan
That's all nothing compared to the SKA/CS cap. They had been already cult before CS colapsed. In the 80s, they had been everywhere. Almost every person in Switzerland had one.
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It's one of those cheap ones companies used to give away at convention booths.
I've always toyed with the idea of re-programming it so that the math comes out all wrong. 2+2=7.
Overuse of "which" seems to be a British thang.
Fortunately, I still use a mouse at my desk. I hope to work through my collection in this lifetime.
Unfortunately, the art on them is of inconsistent appeal:
They were the auditors for Enron, and when the scandal unraveled, a judge divested all of their clients to the big 4 [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
Years ago, she showed me her Enron Beanie Baby corporate merch. (Oh the irony..)
I wonder if she still has it. It's obscure enough that you can't even find a photograph it online. I guess it might be worth a few bucks these days.
https://bellevue.nzz.ch/mode-beauty/stilkritik-cs-krise-eine...