Philip Jacob / Whirlycott » Quotes http://www.whirlycott.com/phil Philip Jacob's web page Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:31:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New terminology: Twitterbating http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2007/04/12/new-terminology-twitterbating/ http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2007/04/12/new-terminology-twitterbating/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:10:00 +0000 Philip Jacob http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2007/04/12/new-terminology-twitterbating/ “Twitterbating” – a wonderful new term coined by Rudy Rouhana in reference to the obsessive posting on Twitter by people at a conference he recently attended.

Update: I should have known better.  The term’s been around for ages.

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]]> http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/08/30/overheard/feed/ 0 Quote du jour http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/04/18/quote-du-jour/ http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/04/18/quote-du-jour/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:32:05 +0000 Philip Jacob http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/04/18/quote-du-jour/ Continue reading →]]> How cute:

“I can now go into the unix program on the apache server and customize the Metalib program so it works for our library. Wow! :-) It feels great.”

I bet it does feel great!  But if this quote from O’Reilly’s marketing materials is not enough to completely destroy the credibility of their Learning Courses, I’m not sure what is.

]]> http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/04/18/quote-du-jour/feed/ 0 Things I have overheard recently http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/03/20/things-i-have-overheard-recently/ http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/03/20/things-i-have-overheard-recently/#comments Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:43:26 +0000 Philip Jacob http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2006/03/20/things-i-have-overheard-recently/ Continue reading →]]> A few choice quotes from recent adventures:

  1. “Gold is the new silver” at a shop in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
  2. “60 is the new 30″ at a dinner party
  3. “40 is the new 30″ at a 40th birthday party
  4. Woman: I’m going to work in Bill’s new Web 2.0 group


    Man: Cool, with AJAX and all that neat stuff?
    Woman, obviously clueless: Um… sure. So when do we have my goodbye party?

    Man

    : You’re just changing cost centers. You don’t get a party for that. You only get a party if you leave.

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