Mike Schilling

Mike has been a software engineer far longer than he would like to admit. He has strong opinions on baseball, software, science fiction, comedy, contract bridge, and European history, any of which he's willing to share with almost no prompting whatsoever.

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  1. Apparently the End of the World was cancelled for lack of interest.

    My favorite FB pass-around on this was a photo-shopped Weather channel 5-day forecast calling for a high of 1250 deg and flaming asteroids for Friday.

    On a more somber note, for twenty sets of parents in Connecticut, the end of their world came a week early.

    • For that last one, I go to F. Scott Fitzgerald:

      There are some blows from which you do not recover. Rather, you become another person, and eventually that person finds new things to care about.

  2. I was burned by the end of the world back in the late 80’s. Y2k came close to making me care, but that was primarily due to how much I was being paid to care about it.

    The Mayan EOTW might have been a little more interesting, given all of the parties that all of the bars in town were having… except the radio stopped playing the “COME TO THUNDER AND BUTTONS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD” ads and started playing “COME TO THUNDER AND BUTTONS FOR NEW YEARS EVE” ads.

    I’m beginning to suspect that this is one of those things like “Sweetest Day”: A bunch of dudes in a smoke-filled room wondering how they might move 3% more product before the end of the quarter.

  5. Extra points for the Carpenters.
    Few bands with a drummer as lead vocalist.

    • No Age are very unCarpenterslike to say the least, but they do a drummer/lead vocalist setup.

      What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band?

      • If my experience with drummers and bands is any experience in these things: “I’m not drunk again, guys!”

        • Heh.

          Is that when you have to point out that the ad read “Drummer – not Drunkard – Wanted”?

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