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This is Intentionally Vicarious – I’m Todd Youngblood – and I was just sitting here at my desk – pondering aimlessly…
…about how dreadfully colorless and dull most technical writing is. But then I remembered stumbling across this line from a 1965 NASA report:
“Man is the lowest-cost, 150 pound, non-linear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
Now that took a sense of humor! We should all strive to inject that sort of whimsy into our work-a-day lives.