Geek Jokes

[Clockwork Cupcake]

julian64 said:

Nope they only have to show the number correctly rounded up, or as the previous poster said not cut the photo short. Its a teeth itch thing to me.

The rest of the number is off to the right side of the pic, and stretches as far as your imagination. Or rather, conceivably all the way round the earth until just before the left side of the picture.

News just in: A picture has boundaries and cannot show the entirety of existence.

[dxg]

dibbers006 said:

What about cupboards?

Narnia exists inside an effective picture frame.

The entire 'world' exists within a frame. Ceci n'est pas une pipe

[MartG]

How do German IBM techs greet each other after lunch?

Guten ABEND...

[SVX]

MartG said:

How do German IBM techs greet each other after lunch?

Guten ABEND...

[simoid]

Einion Yrth said:

?

That's the only representation of the actual number.

Circumference/diameter

[Usget]

MartG said:

How do German IBM techs greet each other after lunch?

Guten ABEND...

I work for IBM with a bunch of German devs and I'm ashamed to say I don't get it...

[TartanPaint]

ABEND is short for ABnormal END (exit with errors before the process is complete).

Abend = evening in German.

Not that funny really.

[Nimby]

Usget said:

MartG said:

How do German IBM techs greet each other after lunch?

Guten ABEND...

I work for IBM with a bunch of German devs and I'm ashamed to say I don't get it...

Abends were System/370 OS/VS1 and MVS error codes. I spent the first 9 years of my IBM career (1975-1984) as a software engineer debugging core dumps, and still have the yellow S/370 reference card.
These are the ABEND codes. For example, the very common 0004 hardware code presented as "ABEND 0C4" in software

[caseys]

Nimby said:

Usget said:

MartG said:

How do German IBM techs greet each other after lunch?

Guten ABEND...

I work for IBM with a bunch of German devs and I'm ashamed to say I don't get it...

Abends were System/370 OS/VS1 and MVS error codes. I spent the first 9 years of my IBM career (1975-1984) as a software engineer debugging core dumps, and still have the yellow S/370 reference card.
These are the ABEND codes. For example, the very common 0004 hardware code presented as "ABEND 0C4" in software

I always preferred the system of negative results codes being informative and then positive result codes being errors.

Then again I also found watching IPL codes on a front panel interesting to watch. Alas when I say I’m waiting for my laptop to IPL in the morning some people here in the labs don’t get it... zseries (z/os 1.3 and newer) and iseries bod here.

Glad to see a few other IBMers, or former IBMers in here!

I’m going to try that joke with my German project colleagues tomorrow. Probably won’t get it

[Clockwork Cupcake]

MartG said:

How do German IBM techs greet each other after lunch?

Guten ABEND...

Even funnier if you interrupt a colleague in order to say it.

[simoid]

AFter dinner, Shirley?

Also, wo ist mein Kätzchen...?

[gobuddygo]

Usget said:

I work for IBM with a bunch of German devs and I'm ashamed to say I don't get it...

So do i and i had no clue either.

[WinstonWolf]

gobuddygo said:

Usget said:

I work for IBM with a bunch of German devs and I'm ashamed to say I don't get it...

So do i and i had no clue either.

If you were a Novell CNE you'd get it

[TwigtheWonderkid]

The cat was sitting on my lap when suddenly she scratched my groin when that woman from Strictly appeared on the telly.

Claudia Winkleman?

Luckily not, but it was pretty close!

[JustALooseScrew]

Someone told me a joke about Fibonacci, to be honest I didn't laugh, it sounded just as bad as the last two.

[K12beano]

[Clockwork Cupcake]

JustALooseScrew said:

Someone told me a joke about Fibonacci, to be honest I didn't laugh, it sounded just as bad as the last two.

Keep going - your next joke should be twice as good.

[gothatway]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The cat was sitting on my lap when suddenly she scratched my groin when that woman from Strictly appeared on the telly.

Claudia Winkleman?

Luckily not, but it was pretty close!

Might be a joke, but not for this thread (or am I due a parrot ?)

[JustALooseScrew]

I've just started learning HTML and CSS;

#council-woman {
position: inherit;
right: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding-bottom: 9999px;
overflow: visible;
}

[gothatway]

color: orange