Useless adviceAs a new parent, people seem to think it's OK to pass on any and every old wives tale possible. "Don't hug him too much". What? Quite what possesses people to pass on baseless, idiotic, useless advice I don't know.
That said, I quite often give car drivers directions and then, after they've moved off, realise that I've sent them down a bike-only route, so I can give as good as I get.
What useless advice have you been given (or handed out) recently?
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chthonic, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 10:29)
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Where's my file?I had a programmer working for me named Dan. I needed to run a program he had written and send the resulting files out. The program took about six hours to run. Something like five hours into the run, Dan happens to pick up that program and modify it into something else, but he doesn't change the file name. My run finishes, but I find one of the files has been munged. After a few minutes of scratching my butt I ask Dan if just maybe he had something to do with it. Of course he admits what he did, but of course it's not his fault that I ran a program with the same file name as what he was doing. I tell him this was an important file that I need to send out. Dan says:
"You can always run it again."
(, Tue 24 Oct 2006, 7:18, Reply)
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