about foo-fu

Sunday being my day of rest and thinking things through, I considered it a good moment to give a bit more explanation about "foo-fu" and what it means for me.

Let's look at the two parts of foo-fu: foo and fu.

On itself foo is generally known as a metasyntactic variable, especially in programming examples like "if foo=1 then ..." .
This is even specified in its own RFC (RFC 3092)!

Foo is also a type of chinese dog.
Well more correctly, "foo" carries the connotation "lucky" in Standard chinese. Therefor you have the dogs guarding a doorway called foo-dog as they're intended to bring luck or to conserve luck for those behind this door.

Although sometimes considered an alternative method of writing of the word "foo", in itself "fu" has an other meaning which also happens to be the one I intended for this blog which is "expertise".
This is especially through if you look at martial arts where the pupil will obtain a certain level of "fu" from his master or through his/her learnings.
Although a bit "Karate Kid"-esque, it relates to real life, in a sense that, through trial and error, you grow skills and learn to master the art of living your life.

"Fu" is also an extention regularly added to wordt to describe the mastering of something. Mostly in a joking way. A very popular version of this is animefu, an anime enthousiasts site.

circular sarcasm

This woman definitely gets the point, although she rather spoils the plot by posting the clue to the story.
Try grasping the point without reading her explanation. If you don't get it straight away, this video may well be addressed to you.

For those who got it : here she is her lovely self.

simple project management

I wish all those project owners would take a little time to read this one through.
Although no shocking new ideas come up, it contains a clear an concise explanation on how to run a project and not run it into the ground from step one.


An excerpt about communication :

Being a good, clear and consistent communicator is the one thing that will give you the most bang for your buck when it comes to project management.
Give weekly updates and make sure everyone knows what they’re supposed to be doing at all times.
Make yourself available for questions and concerns.
By simply taking the time to communicate well and on a regular basis you’ve one half the battle.

(via Lifehacker, image a shameless rip from some project software site)

amazed ?

Frequently people do get really upset about other peoples actions, crying in outrage over the injustice done to them in person or to society as a whole.
Next thing we know it appears like everybody clean forgot what happened and the great perpetrator is reintroduced to his or her previous position in society (or even promoted).

While these are the same people that decide this reintroduction is the most normal of things, they still seem to find a way to be amazed about this reintroduction happening at all.
On the one hand they question the lack of punishment or justice served, yet they themselves are the driving factor behind this reintegration.

I guess this is part of what makes people people : being blatantly inconsequent, which means there is still hope for me ...