2026-04-24 19:43 UTC
@gray@merping.synth.download @ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us Reminds me of the old (90s) joke:
A helicopter pilot gets lost in the fog and his instruments are going haywire. He spots a nearby building and flies in close. He motions to the workers and shows them a hand-written sign: "Where am I?"
The workers write their own sign: "In a helicopter!"
The pilot immediately knows what direction to fly, because he's most certainly at the Microsoft campus.
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@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us 2026-04-24 19:46
@corbden@defcon.social @gray@merping.synth.download Brings me back.
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@rmd1023@infosec.exchange 2026-04-25 10:08
@corbden@defcon.social @gray@merping.synth.download @ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us @kb6nzv@infosec.exchange I always heard it as someone in a hot air balloon but with slightly different ending. First: “you’re in a balloon!” Reply from person in balloon: “you must be (an engineer/msft/whoever you’re snarking about) because the answer is entirely correct but utterly useless” Second: Then there was my favorite evolution which is that previous version but the reply to the balloonist is “ah, you must be a manager - you still don’t know where you are or where you’re going but now you think it’s my fault”