Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for February 20, 2025

Now who put THAT in the software?

well…. beware of what you wish, you may end up getting it.

That was an old QuarkXpress Easter egg.

Is that Ronald Ray-Gun?

Hit Ctrl+Z and it’s all back! Save.

Get her out of there, Val!

Quick! Alt-Z!

Classic joke: Satan challenged Jesus to a programming contest. Jesus accepted. They both worked hard at their computers for hours. Then, all of a sudden, right before the deadline, there was a power outage. Satan was aghast; all his work was lost. When the power came back on, he scrambled to try to cobble something together before they brought their projects before God for judgement. When the time came, he was amazed to see Jesus smiling benignly.

Satan turned in his project. It compiled, but was full of warnings and didn’t even load.

Jesus turned in his project. It compiled with no warnings, loaded, met the spec, had no coding standard violations, and looked great.

Satan was astonished. “But how did you manage all that in the few hours we had after the power outage?”

Jesus turned to Satan and smiled. “Jesus saves.”

I liked the one where your screensaver slowly melted the text on your screen and it ran to the bottom.

Command Option. Is that the Microsoft key?

Whoopsies.

And, moving right along to the next desk…..

Note to self, make sure to save often when working on anything

Good old Quark XPress.