Things must be really rough on the "I'm a Big Consultant just ask me" Circuit.

http://www.yourdon.com/index2.html

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2001

Answers

Get a load of how Ed Your-Toasted explains that pant-load of a book, Timebomb

Time Bomb 2000!,with Jennifer Yourdon (2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1999).

Yes, I know that Y2K is over, and that it turned out to be a non- event. I still have a few dozen copies of this book, sitting in a corner of my office; I suppose I can use them as door stops or boat anchors at this point. In another section of this site, I began an effort to conduct a "20-20 hindsight" postmortem of Y2K -- not by reviewing this book, but by re-examining some of the essays that I published on this site during 1998-1999. I must admit that I haven't gotten very far with this effort -- at this point, nobody seems to care about what did or didn't happen with Y2K....

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2001

And you point is ... ??

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Is he trying to find out why he was so freakin stupid!!!!! No one else gives a shit why he was wrong, just that all his freakin logic sucked.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

But Ms. Maria, you will admit that for Toasty with his Math degree from MIT to have "logic that sucks" does sort of make one wonder.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Assuming he even bothers to complete it (not likely, when there's no market for it), Ed will conclude that more remediation got done than he suspected, that the Big Corps weren't lying when they said they were "ready," and so on.

He'll never have a clue about the REAL reason, which is that computers are NOT as indispensible to society as he (and his propeller-headed friends) firmly believe. They're useful tools, nothing more. They break now, all the time, and we work around them. We did the same for Y2K.

But don't hold your breath expecting him to discover this fact.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Y2K???? Reality check, folks: nothing broke, so nothing needed to be fixed. Just a lot of scaremongering by the usual nutballs and scammers. (NWO and Illuminati believers, for instance.)

Have a good day.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

TK:

Y2K???? Reality check, folks: nothing broke,

Now that just isn't true [let's be honest]. The Mac and Unix stuff had no problem but the Win on some of my equipment gave a date stamp in the early 70's.

so nothing needed to be fixed.

Of course it did. I had to reset the date. *<)))

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Now that just isn't true [let's be honest]. The Mac and Unix stuff had no problem but the Win on some of my equipment gave a date stamp in the early 70's.

1980 maybe, no earlier. Big deal. I don't mean that you didn't have to re-set your PC's date. I do mean that all of your computer records pertaining to your employment, social security, bank account, etc., came through unscathed. Yet, some people thought the world was going to come to an end. The reality is: nothing broke!

Remember: people a lot smarter than us are responsible for making sure that things go smoothly, because it is in their best interests to do so. Constant whining about NWO conspiracies and coverups is counterproductive.

Best wishes to you also, Sir.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

TK:

The post was a joke; true; but a joke. W95 &98 reverted to an early 70's date. I don't remember what the exact year was.

The post was to agree with what you said.

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

I believe it was 72, then again I can't recall.

Stephen, I have to agree that he won't discover 'this fact' about computers. Yes for such an expert (just ask him, grin), he didn't know much. He can't seem to find the time (or energy) to do a postmortem (some 18 months later) because he knows deep down he'll find out what a non-expert he really is. Hard to face that fact about yourself after you've been pumped up the way he has.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Ah, Ms. Maria, you seem to have forgotten, Taos-Toast-ED had another work in progress that he never got to flesh out either (probably because he couldn't get an advance for it from Prentice ((even the "Your-Toast Books" Div. )) ).

Don't we all recall "Humpty Dumpty Y2k"? And The Taos Jerkoff's plan to 'splain to all how things broke and couldn't be put back together again.

Remember, he was a project 'spert, and if there was one thing he knew it was that projects never got finished or came in on time. Told Dah Senators that to he did, he did.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Yes Sister, I remember all those things 'bout fast Eddy. Too funny!

I also 'member how the forum just ate it up. Believed every last word of his gospel. Can I hear an AMEN?!

Title of this thread is very appropriate.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001