Wednesday, November 14, 2012

You Are Having a Bad Problem And Will Not Go To Space Today

This is the source of the latest internet meme. I've been an XKCD reader for years now. Humor for educated people, ones who can do math. The phrase:

"You are having a bad problem and will not go to space today." 

is going to turn up in all sorts of places. Places like computer code error messages. Official missives from low level government employees. Perhaps the next time you're pulled over for speeding, if you're lucky. I don't know if you're aware of this, but it turns out that in most programming languages, the application designer is the one who codes the actual error messages for exception handling. If I were coding apps, I would use that as the error message. Maybe the IRS will do that for next year's audit awards.

This is particularly funny since Space Brothers just FINALLY had one of them launch into space in a proper rocket, heading for the moon. There was no problem. Hibito DID go to space today. But you won't. Because you are having a bad problem. This is why internet memes are fun. Even if "Secession" is the #1 search word on Google today.

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