Tag: bugs

  • Impossible Solutions

    Impossible Solutions

    Whatever unexpected outcomes may occur, you have to admire the creativity and commitment.

  • One Hundred Lines

    One Hundred Lines

    Sure, you could write a simple 100-line program to do a lot of things where everything is acting the way you expect it to act. And then someone will breathe near it and suddenly nothing is working anymore and you… have to add some more lines of code.

  • Slug Won’t Do Fast

    Slug Won’t Do Fast

    Thanks to my daughter for the idea for this comic – she learned about the slug-eat-slug result of this experiment at the science fair and ad-libbed what the slug was thinking in that (3rd panel) moment.

  • A Journey of Self Discovery

    A Journey of Self Discovery

    Sometimes if you stare at a problem too long, it just starts to look normal.

  • Like Winning The Lottery

    Like Winning The Lottery

    One of the problems with having a really big service is that, after a point, million-to-one odd occurrences start to happen pretty frequently.

  • Anteater

    Anteater

    So my sister tells us at a family gathering how she ate an ant and it turns out that they are sour and our dad adds very emphatically: “Oh yeah, ants are sour.” Excuse me, sir, were we just supposed to know that you already knew the flavor profile of ants?

  • New Normal

    New Normal

    I mean, we think this traffic looks obviously abnormal, but what do we know?

  • Sorry, Bugs

    Sorry, Bugs

    Fun fact: what I call a “potato bug” is actually a “terrestial crustacean” in the family armadillidae – or maybe armadillidiidae. Or you can just call it a pill bug or roly poly.

  • Niche Issues

    Niche Issues

    Hopefully it’s not too much of a commentary on my ability to call the right person. I at least feel a bit better when it is not something obvious and other people also don’t have any idea what’s going on.

  • Units of Patience

    Units of Patience

    I mean, yeah, it’s nice that there’s music and stuff so I know they didn’t forget about me on hold.