Humor In Documentation
By Bob Plankers on Nov 5, 2007 in Documentation, Featured, System Administration
Documentation is often dull and drab, optimized for getting information to those in need as efficiently as possible. Yet once in a while there’s something that makes dorks like myself chuckle. Like fun example data in the Atlassian Confluence documentation:
The characters are from Fight Club, if you aren’t familiar with the movie.
Nothing says you can’t entertain while you’re informing, even if it is just movie character names.
5 Comment(s)
By Jon Silvers on Nov 5, 2007 | Reply
I’ll have to share your blog with the tech writing team! :)
By Bart on Nov 6, 2007 | Reply
I like the following quote, taken from the Solaris truss man page:
“This is for unredeemed hackers who must see the raw bits to be happy.”
By marc farley on Nov 6, 2007 | Reply
Great find!! I’m not worthy! The book Fight Club, is an excellent read too. Lots more here http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/ about the book and its author Chuck Palahniuk.
By Charles Miller on Nov 6, 2007 | Reply
The funniest part of all is:
1) I spelled “Paulson” wrong.
2) We got a bug report about it: http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8988
By Bob Plankers on Nov 6, 2007 | Reply
Marc: I haven’t read the book — I do have something in my “unread” pile from Palahniuk, I’ll have to see what it is. And then read it. :-) Also, congrats on the Dell/EqualLogic merge! I hope it presents good opportunities for you.
Charles: Nice. :-) LOL. My coworkers and I got a laugh out of that.