I've been helping out with some analysis tasks at work the last week or so, meaning I've had to do actual coding (Matlab, of course) - the last time I had to do anything constructive with code was doing some microprocessor stuff three years ago. Let me just say this:
I loves me some
varargin.
Here's to having too much fun with optional arguments in function calls, and doubling the number of lines of code to implement them.
On a completely unrelated note:
Yet another reason why I like xkcd.