Toto Boutlamine ([info]happy_jedi) wrote,
@ 2007-05-14 15:13:00
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Current location:300 Laurier Ave W Ottawa ON
Current mood: bored

What's the point of all this documentation, use cases, class diagrams, data models, and time reporting?! Who in their right mind would ever want to voluntarily read all of it? And if nobody reads it, then what good is it? This brings to mind my favourite Day of the Dead monologue:

We don't believe in what you're doing here, Sarah. Hey, you know what they keep down here in this cave? Man, they got the books and the records of the top hundred companies. They got the Defense Department budget down here. And they got the negatives for all your favorite movies. They got microfilm with tax returns and newspaper stories. They got immigration records, census reports, and they got the accounts of all the wars and plane crashes and volcano eruptions and earthquakes and fires and floods and all the other disasters that interrupted the flow of things in the good ole U.S. of A. Now what does it matter, Sarah darling? All this filing and record keeping? We ever gonna give a shit? We even gonna get a chance to see it all? This is a great, big 14 mile TOMBSTONE with an epitaph on it that nobody gonna bother to read. Now, here you come, here you come, with a whole new set of charts and graphs and records. What you gonna do? Bury them down here with all the other relics of what once was? Let me tell you what else; you ain't never gonna figure it out, just like they never figured out why the stars are where they're at. It ain't mankind's job to figure that stuff out. So what you're doing is a waste of time, Sarah. And time is all we got left, you know. What I'm doing is all there's left to do... Shame on you. There's plenty to do, plenty to do, so long as there's you and me and maybe some other people. We could start over, start fresh, make some babies and teach 'em, Sarah, teach 'em, never to come over here and dig these records out.
       -- John (Day of the Dead)

Now, ain't it more fun to quote Day of the Dead? You betcha.

The London Pride will wash away...



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[info]happy_jedi
2007-05-15 01:14 pm UTC (link)
Well, we'll remain somewhat useful until the zombies take over. :-)

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