If you think we spend our days toiling to build a National Digital Library, or researching blog posts, you're wrong.
We really spend our time telling tech jokes.
It all began with this winner from John Mansfield at Oxford University Press:
"Why did the attribute feel invalidated?"
So, with sincere apologies to those who don't speak XML or HTML, here is some Monday fun from Douglas and myself in the National Digital Library to keep your mind active.
1. <your>you're</your>
2. <poodle></poodle><labrador></labrador>
3. <out>turn it</out>
4. <!--NO-->
5. <sup>annie</sup>
6. <flu><fever></flu></fever>
7. <cumulonimbus></cumulonimbus>
8. <rivalry /><rivalry />
9. <100%></100%>
10. <transaction></t>
11. <the_apes><a><long><time><man /></time></long></a></the_apes>
12. <social>ing</social>
See if you can work out the answers - and feel free to leave them in the comments, along with any tech humour of your own.
The prize is to be crowned geek of the week - we'll post all the solutions soon.
Oh, and in case you didn't guess the punch line to John's joke, "because he wasn't in his element", of course! :-)
3 comments:
I can kinda-sorta read xml and html - at least to use the basics - but apparently I don't speak it. A couple of guesses:
3 - turn it inside out?
8 - sibling rivalry?
And I've no idea why Annie is in superscript, but I'm now desperately trying to get "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow!" out of my head: it seems only fair to share the experience with you. :-)
Looking forward to the answers...
4 - No Comment
Yay for Monday fun, geek style..
1. You're out of your element
2. Dog tags
5. Lil' Orphan Annie?
Haw haw
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