Comments on: That old black magic. http://internet-bard.com/that-old-black-magic/ Wandering the web, full of wonder and stories. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:59:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kat http://internet-bard.com/that-old-black-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-1493 Kat Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:56 +0000 http://internet-bard.com/?p=604#comment-1493 Wait. Are you telling me emails DON'T work by miracle? I'm going to need a moment to process this... Wait. Are you telling me emails DON’T work by miracle?

I’m going to need a moment to process this…

]]> By: Charles Robinson http://internet-bard.com/that-old-black-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-1490 Charles Robinson Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:29:20 +0000 http://internet-bard.com/?p=604#comment-1490 I work in IT and have always interjected humor into explanations. People don't really care about the dry details even if they ask. Other person: "What do you do?" Me: "I'm a software developer." OP: "Really? That's cool. How many lines of code do you think you've written?" Me: "Eleventy billion." OP: "No way!" Me: "Way." In a previous life I did a lot of IT training, and there are areas where end users don't need the specifics. A colleague had the best tactic for that: "You put the other person's e-mail address in the To field, click Send, a miracle occurs, and it shows up in their end box." I use both eleventy billion and the miracle line a lot. I work in IT and have always interjected humor into explanations. People don’t really care about the dry details even if they ask.

Other person: “What do you do?”
Me: “I’m a software developer.”
OP: “Really? That’s cool. How many lines of code do you think you’ve written?”
Me: “Eleventy billion.”
OP: “No way!”
Me: “Way.”

In a previous life I did a lot of IT training, and there are areas where end users don’t need the specifics. A colleague had the best tactic for that: “You put the other person’s e-mail address in the To field, click Send, a miracle occurs, and it shows up in their end box.”

I use both eleventy billion and the miracle line a lot.

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