Some weekend silliness...



Some of you may have come across http://xkcd.com/1133/ that describes

the Saturn 5 launcher with only the 10,000 most popular words in US

English.



Theo Sanderson had the awesome idea of making a text editor that

encouraged you to describe any idea with the same limitations.



So here's my attempt at the Agile Manifesto using the ten hundred most

used words:



http://is.gd/Mnl0zN



Can you do better?



Anybody want to have a go at the principles ;-)



Cheers,



Adrian

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> http://is.gd/Mnl0zN

>

> Can you do better?



Fun stuff. Here's my attempt:

   http://bit.ly/WPz6Wq



It turns out that "computer" is in the list, that makes things easier.



Cheers,

Laurent

On 20/01/13 13:14, Laurent Bossavit wrote:

>> >http://is.gd/Mnl0zN

>> >

>> >Can you do better?

> Fun stuff. Here's my attempt:

>    http://bit.ly/WPz6Wq



Nice.



> It turns out that "computer" is in the list, that makes things easier.



D'oh! ;-)



Adrian

Adrian, thanks for starting this.  Fun morning distraction



I was surprised to find conversation in the list with all other words that are

missing.



Here is mine:



http://bit.ly/dumbed_down_agile_manifesto



On Jan 20, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:



> On 20/01/13 13:14, Laurent Bossavit wrote:

> >> >http://is.gd/Mnl0zN

> >> >

> >> >Can you do better?

> > Fun stuff. Here's my attempt:

> > http://bit.ly/WPz6Wq

>

> Nice.

>

> > It turns out that "computer" is in the list, that makes things easier.

>

> D'oh! ;-)

>

> Adrian

>

>







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"words that MR LAWYER uses" -- nice.





Angela Harms

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http://twitter.com/angelaharms





On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:21 AM, James Grenning <

james@...> wrote:



> Adrian, thanks for starting this.  Fun morning distraction

>

> I was surprised to find conversation in the list with all other words that

> are missing.

>

> Here is mine:

>

> http://bit.ly/dumbed_down_agile_manifesto

>

> On Jan 20, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:

>

> > On 20/01/13 13:14, Laurent Bossavit wrote:

> > >> >http://is.gd/Mnl0zN

> > >> >

> > >> >Can you do better?

> > > Fun stuff. Here's my attempt:

> > > http://bit.ly/WPz6Wq

> >

> > Nice.

> >

> > > It turns out that "computer" is in the list, that makes things easier.

> >

> > D'oh! ;-)

> >

> > Adrian

> >

> >

>

>

>

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Thanks.







On Jan 20, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Angela Harms wrote:



> "words that MR LAWYER uses" -- nice.

>

> Angela Harms

> cell or text: 541-337-8088

> http://twitter.com/angelaharms

>

> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:21 AM, James Grenning <

> james@...> wrote:

>

> > Adrian, thanks for starting this. Fun morning distraction

> >

> > I was surprised to find conversation in the list with all other words that

> > are missing.

> >

> > Here is mine:

> >

> > http://bit.ly/dumbed_down_agile_manifesto

> >

> > On Jan 20, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:

> >

> > > On 20/01/13 13:14, Laurent Bossavit wrote:

> > > >> >http://is.gd/Mnl0zN

> > > >> >

> > > >> >Can you do better?

> > > > Fun stuff. Here's my attempt:

> > > > http://bit.ly/WPz6Wq

> > >

> > > Nice.

> > >

> > > > It turns out that "computer" is in the list, that makes things easier.

> > >

> > > D'oh! ;-)

> > >

> > > Adrian

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> >

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:)



It is fun.



One quibble. We chose "over" quite carefully. "Rather than" implies more

"instead of". Recall that "over" represents a preference but not a strict

prohibition against the things on the right.



R

On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Laurent Bossavit <laurent@...> wrote:



> > http://is.gd/Mnl0zN

> >

> > Can you do better?

>

> Fun stuff. Here's my attempt:

> http://bit.ly/WPz6Wq

>

> It turns out that "computer" is in the list, that makes things easier.





Ron Jeffries

www.XProgramming.com

I try to Zen through it and keep my voice very mellow and low.

Inside I am screaming and have a machine gun.

Yin and Yang I figure.

   -- Tom Jeffries







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