Post #2350600

2026-02-25 07:55 UTC

Not, I repeat, my only great failure as a geek. But, *damn*, that was humiliating. I wrote an *excellent* program that *brilliantly* displayed data coming from hardware that didn't work. It was a gig. I got paid. That's not the point. I was a pro, and pro's deliver *value*. All I delivered was a good laugh.

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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 07:56

Upside: I saw many many seals, and a polar bear from a distance. The comedy officer was actually the helicopter maintenance guy, and I got a helicopter tour of an iceberg. All of that was rather awesome.

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@hallvors@oslo.town 2026-02-25 07:57

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 😂 Good story, well told

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@paco@infosec.exchange 2026-02-25 08:10

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Wow. What a story. Awesome. But somebody hired you. This wasn’t your idea. You didn’t say “I have an idea: let’s bring these 3 devices together on an icebreaker.” So somebody knew enough about these 5 things: icebreakers, gps, speed logs, radar, and computer programmers. They knew enough to imagine what each could do, but not enough to know that this wasn’t going to work at all. And the supreme irony that you forgot to mention: all 4 ships, the icebreaker and its 3 ships behind, all made it safely to where they were going even while your thing didn’t work at all. Brilliant story though. Humbling and hilarious.

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