Emma: You know that I'm a sensible, intelligent women, capable of deep thought and reflection. I have a history of reasoned, carefully considered discourse, and a penetrating ability to see beyond the superficial.
Karen: Ok.
Emma: And would never, ever support or condone random oogling of total strangers in restaurants. I think that reducing a ( Read more... )

Karen: (Singing) The project is complete.
Emma: But no profits you will reap.
Karen: When the boss says it's cancelled, how do you reply?
Emma: Politely. Politely.
Emma and Karen: Polite - ly.
Emma: Not that it's ever happened to us.
Karen: Certainly not!

Emma's Phone Ring. Ring.
Emma: This is Emma.
Six: Hi, Emma. This is Six.
Emma: Hi Six.
Six: I wanted to thank you for your help yesterday.
Emma: No problem. I love nothing more than dropping everything to make house calls. It's like being a doctor, but without the risk of infection.
Six: Great. Anyway, I'm having a problem.
Emma: I can't come ( Read more... )

Emma: I just realized I forgot to index an entire feature.
Karen: How entire?
Emma: Real entire.
Karen: Blurh.
Karen: I mean, Blurgh.
Emma: ...because it's incorrectly spelled as blurh, but blurgh fixes that right up!
Karen: Quiet you!
Emma: It's an interesting philosophical question. Can a word be subject to typos if it isn't a word at all?
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Some time ago...
Sales Weasel 1: Hey Emma. There used to be this nifty piece of documentation. but now it's old and cobwebby. Can you update it?
Six: But it has to be manually maintained! That's why I got rid of it.
Emma: I can't see why it has to be manually maintained. It seems like it should be easy enough to automate. I'll get back to you ( Read more... )

Karen: Good morning, Emma. How are you?
Emma: I have too much to think about and not enough built-in computing power.
Karen: Sounds serious. Can you offload anything into external memory?
Emma: I'm trying.
Karen: Well good luck with that.
Emma: I just hope I don't lose anything off the stack before I shift the data.
Karen:This is why you need a ( Read more... )

Karen: i need a short phrase to convey the idea that pages can be either left or right.
Emma: Either these pages are correct, or you can dump them on the floor.
Karen: Not quite what I was hoping for, but thanks.