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May6
Once there was a boy who started telling plausible but dull lies. When his mum called him to come out of his room to fetch his supper, instead of grunting rudely, he said:
“The English language contains three kinds of counting number: cardinal – “one two three four five six seven eight nine ten”; ordinal – “first second third fourth fifth six seventh eighth ninth tenth”; and seminal – “once twice thrice quartz quince since sense ox nunce tense”. The use of seminal numbers above ‘thrice’ has much declined in recent decades.”
When she heard this, his mum was very alarmed. She hurried back to the kitchen, where she turned Corrie up another notch. Read the rest of this entry »
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May6
A prince needed an IT system, and offered the hand of his daughter in marriage to whomsoever completed it to his best satisfaction.
A team of top consultants, who lived in fancy offices in town, tackled the problem using the Rational Unified Process.
A professor from one of the “new” universities – I believe it was the University of South West Fairyland – decided to undertake a design based on formal methods. Read the rest of this entry »
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May6
Once there was a mouse who lived with his conventional nuclear family in one of those metal cabinets that the broadband ISPs set up near suburban pavements.
Inside, the box contained several fibre optic cables. These were covered in a delicious-to-mice material that acted as a dietary supplement when times were hard, and also when the mice didn’t feel like going out of an evening. When a baby mouse accidentally nibbled through to the glass fibres, it didn’t matter. It provided a handy surface on which to sharpen their teeth. Read the rest of this entry »
