Talking with my girlfriend about whether raccoons or ravens are the more delightful trickster/scavenger turned into me making this urban trash panda gryphon.

marzipanandminutiae:

durnesque-esque:

mirthalia:

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cosrnos:

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ultrafacts:

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 Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”

AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE

so that’s the function of a rubber duck

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.

I use this for writing, actually. Explain what I’m doing and what I want to do and the different ways i can get to point B from A, as well as the different problems, amazingly working them out as I explain why I could or couldn’t the different things. I love the Rubber Duck theory.

Former programmer, can confirm. We didn’t have a duck in our office so our other programmer, who I shared a space with, used me as a duck proxy. (For the explaining, not the throwing.)

There was more than one day where I’d casually hear “Hey can you be a duck for a minute?”

Originally posted by merrythephouka

I do this with dolls when I’m writing. (Except you can’t throw a 140-year-old porcelain doll, so I have to be a bit more restrained.)

Also good for sewing problems. This week I was set to work on a project I’ve had on-deck and realized looking at the reference image that the pattern I had was not the right silhouette afterall, and needed to figure out how to triage that. Grabbed the cat and talking him through the problem got me my answer faster than I would have alone, not in the least because he has a five-minute timer on lap sits.

seriouslyamerica:

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angstbotfic:

AKA why the electoral college has gotta go. 

though looking at the comments the folks who live in the red part think this is why the electoral college has got to stay. because they like getting 3.5 votes per capita. 

Tyranny of the few is a pretty sweet deal if you belong to the few.

“Why should the coast’s vote count more?” BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE AND THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY A DEMOCRACY.

A Map Of Where The People Live

(Source: retrowar)

Do you ever think about Pluto playing back file footage of Queen Serenity telling her about the importance of not interfering with the timeline, Leia-style, for about a thousand years?