Easily Amused

... by geekish things, that is.

At work, I'm currently working on a web application, which, like most web apps, involve a web-based user interface interacting with a database behind the scenes. Yesterday I was busy checking out some of the entries (test entries, of course) in the database to see if my data had been stored correctly. In the process, I came across several other pieces of test data from previous programmers' work.

And I came across some amusing choices of names for the "Protein Name" field.

There was the usual bang-on-the-keyboard "asdfafds" and "kljkklj" entries.
The regular 'test' names like "test protein".
Some guy obviously named Joe had entered "joe's protein".

And then there were the beer varieties (ostensibly because beer is fermented, as were these proteins. Or maybe these entries were created on Friday afternoon, when Happy Hour loomed close by): "test beer", "icy beer", "foamy beer", "tasty frothy suds", and my favorite of the beers: "godzilla likes beer"

My personal favorite overall? "brainless monkey" (sounds like a moniker I could slap on a few people I've encountered, but that would be at the risk of offending monkeys the world over)

Okay, enough giggles for now. Just had to share it in case anyone else (probably only my geek readers) finds it funny :-)

(originally posted at:  http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/303042701)