throttling back my fanboy tendencies

[madbaker]

One of my cow-orkers watched the first half hour of The Two Towers recently, and was describing it:

"So I got to the point where those three dudes are surrounded by these guys on horses, and..."

I forcibly stopped myself from leaping out of the chair, grabbing him by the shirt, and shouting "It's the riders of Rohan, you idiot! The three dudes, they're named..."

Ahem. Bad for the corporate image.

Current book: Kristine Smith, Code of Conduct

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[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Similar, pointy-haired moment on the part of my boss.

We were doing a bugbase review, part of which is this light fluffy bit
where we ascribe numerological significance to certain bug numbers
(666, 1066, etc.). The bugbase in question had only 88 bugs in it.
We were playing the "what's the significance of this number?" game.
So, when Boss Lady got to #42, she said it, and was amazed that so many
of us chimed in with the answer. She obviously never read the
Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy.

"It's okay; we're nerds," I said.

Z

P.S.: We work in a technical job: Software QA. Some of us even have
LJ's. %-}

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's part of it - I don't work in a technical job. Who knew they had those in Silicon Valley? But while I may be the only SF fan here, I'm certainly not the only Tolkien fan.

'course, I may be the only one here who read the books at the age of 7. (And 8. And 9. And...)