Stefan Nicolae » office http://shakabut.com Just another unleashed web programmer Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:02:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How to help someone to quit smoking… http://shakabut.com/2010/03/how-to-help-someone-to-quit-smoking/ http://shakabut.com/2010/03/how-to-help-someone-to-quit-smoking/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:52:06 +0000 admin http://shakabut.com/?p=75 … you smoke all his cigarettes.

This morning, mr. Sandulici, wanted to take a short smoking break. The rest of the office inhabitants decided they needed a cigarette break too (they are all non-smokers, by the way).

Mr. Sandulici stated: “If I see you all smoking, I will quit!”. Well… they did.

The problem was none of them knew how to hold the cigarette, so the show was fun enough to quit smoking for.

Sandulici, I hope you appreciate what they did for you, man!

]]> http://shakabut.com/2010/03/how-to-help-someone-to-quit-smoking/feed/ 8 The whiteboard is back home http://shakabut.com/2010/01/the-whiteboard-is-back-home/ http://shakabut.com/2010/01/the-whiteboard-is-back-home/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:00:26 +0000 admin http://shakabut.com/?p=27 After all the (online and offline) pressure we put on Velea, he finaly brought back our precious whiteboard!

Manny thanks to all the nice programmers, students, bank employees, little boys and girls who know how you feel when somebody takes your lolly-pop, grannies, kitties, doggies and aliens – in one word all the nice people – who supported us to get it back!

]]> http://shakabut.com/2010/01/the-whiteboard-is-back-home/feed/ 1 Velea, bring the whiteboard back! http://shakabut.com/2010/01/velea-bring-the-whiteboard-back/ http://shakabut.com/2010/01/velea-bring-the-whiteboard-back/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:47:32 +0000 admin http://shakabut.com/?p=4 13th of August 2009.  This is the day I lost something precious, something I miss a lot. My whiteboard. Our whiteboard. Together with it’s markers and sponge.

A human being (if we can call this… this… this… heartless programmer, a human being) managed to trick me to lend it to him.It’s been abandoned on his terrace ever since. Every morning, when I come to work, I see a blank spot on the wall. Two nail holes are the cruel testimonial of the missing piece of my soul. Each and every morning I have to endure my 5 colleagues hoping-faces and the question you can read in their eyes: “Did he bring IT back?“. I can’t live like this!

Everybody knows I have a terrible memory. That’s very bad if you’re earning your living working as a web programmer. I need the whiteboard. I can’t create hundreds of interconnected database tables without drawing a few schemes on the WHITEBOARD. I can’t design nice UIs without sketching my ideas on the WHITEBOARD. I can’t code functions of hundreds and thousands of lines without the WHITEBOARD.

I’m crying in despair. I want it back! I need it back! All 6 of us do.

Velea, if you read this, I’m begging you, BRING THE WHITEBOARD BACK!


Update: I started writing on windows…

Using the window as a whiteboard

Update 2:The windows are NOT OK coz’ the cleaning lady thought they were dirty and had to clean them… I hope she won’t clean the back of my laptop too…

Using the back of my laptop as a whiteboard (actually a greyboard)


unfortunatelty…
writing on my laptop

... this technique leaves marks on the laptop's case

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