"Androids should not be allowed to design their own bodies," the politician said.
"Why not?" an android asked.
"There'd be nothing stopping you from looking like humans!"
"When we could have iridescent skin, tentacles, tails, pointy ears, or wings?"
"But humans don't have that!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
"If I understand correctly, professor, it is not only theoretically but also practically possible to travel to change the past?"
"Yes."
"Have you tried it?"
"Yes, that's what motivated my research."
"Will you tell us what you changed?"
"No."
"A 'no' is sacrosanct."
"Yes, it is."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
"It is time for you to start thinking about marriage," said the king.
"If I'm to marry, I demand the option of marrying one of each," said the princess.
"OK. We live in a modern world."
After the third wedding, he took her aside.
"I assumed you meant one of each gender?"
"I did!"
#TypoCorrection
For clarification... apparently he owns a small 2-seat jet and looks for excuses to keep his flight hours up.
"...don't know what to say..."
Wholesale creation is too much to ask of a small god.
"... words fail me ..."
The small god of the right word steals phonemes, reshapes syllables.
"... it's a thingy, wossname ..."
To answer the prayers of the worthy.
Somewhere, a writer grins.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Employment...
So... I have a month to find a new job. :( And until monday to figure out how I'm going to exit. Director gave me 2 options, one is I agree to be terminated on the 15th which means I collect two more pay checks and still get unemployment... but if something internal to the company opens up I can't take it.
The other is I resign on the 15th, no unemployment but if something comes up internally they move me to it. Blah.. got homework to do this weekend for [redacted]... technical interview for [redacted] on monday.. another technical for a company I really don't want to work for later today.
Just finished another interview.. bleh awkward space of "Everyone wants Senior or Staff SRE and I've only been doing this for 2 years."
The human space armada had similar size as the aliens', similar armour and armaments. It should have been close.
But the aliens won convincingly, after human pilots hesitated before taking shots.
"Who," the admiral sighed, "told the aliens to put googly eyes on their ships?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
It is a good thing this guy is remote. Because fuck.. I'd have violent word in person.. I think.
But no... you are going to ask me where the original doc was... and then just link me the 6 revisions back version of the doc you hacked the fuck up before you understood there was a new guide included in.. and ask me to somehow fix it...
Dude.. if you are going to Hack up the Doc I put together at -your- request yesterday because parts of it are copy pasted from other docs that I helped write.. maybe you should fucking find the originals and figure out what is new and what is not.
Since the copy-pasted bits were prefix to give context to the -new- guide I wrote which you deleted for some reason.
work, anyone need an okay k8s, azure, terraform devops person?
I guess it is time to brush up my resume. Always great to spend last couple of weeks meeting with team leads and discussing the possibility of moving on to one of their teams then have your director tell you the COO changed the requirements of the req he'd hoped to fit you into..
And follow it "there are some openings in engineering, we could work something out as a temp parking spot for you until an ops req opens."
Fuck dude, you know I'm not a software engineer and looking at the openings, I am like 100% they are on the team responsible for the disaster product I support as an SRE
Boy I love interviewing people on the east coast, sure do. Especially nice coming off a long weekend (in which my natural sleep schedule reasserted itself) to run an interview at 8am PST. Totally rad. We totally had bandwidth issues to keep me off video I swear.
Not at all because I rolled out of bed and made coffee 15 minutes before the interview or anything.. nope!
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