It’s me, the weirdo

Posted September 17th, 2008 | Published in software engineering

I was visiting my parents with my daughter last weekend – I was on holiday from work at the time. As we were leaving I had to open the boot of my car to get something out and my Mum spotted an old 68000 assembler book that had been lying in there for manyyears.

“You’re not reading work stuff while you are on holiday are you?” she said.

“No”, I replied, “That’s not a work book, I read those for fun”.

“Oh…….”, there was a slight pause and a worried look from Mum, “I didn’t realise you were that weird”.

Thanks Mum.

One Comment on “It’s me, the weirdo”

  1. 1 Robert Sugg said at 10:43 am on February 23rd, 2009:

    ____Tell your Mum that some techies read manuals instead of taking sleeping pills. The best for that purpose are IBM mainframe manuals called POPs (Principles of Operation). One of those will put a person out faster than fifty or so sheep.

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