Overheards

OH: “Show me your postcode face”
OH: “@Floppy: Went to twitter to see what @pikesley had just OH tweeted. But he hadn’t. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.”
OH: “Maybe she’s just better at pretending”
OH: “We have Lego. This is in lieu of self-respect and dignity”
OH: "Sorry
OH: “This is more tweed research than I’ve ever done”
OH: "Ingested truth
OH: “Horribly depressing timeline of fuckery”
OH: “A good pun is its own reword” *punches @mrchrisadams*
OH: "They did a whole set of what sounded like Bon Jovi covers with a Dobro and a human beatboxer"
OH: “I just want to wear mittens and eat a jacket potato”
OH: "Data Charity Shop" #Odisummit
OH: "Bughancement"
OH: "Are you from Canada?" "No but I am nice though"
OH: "Speaking of bullshit
OH: "MySpace does my tits in"
OH: “You get an SLA with one 9 in it”
OH: “Who is OH?”
OH: “I think the Internet’s getting too big”
OH: “If you hold a pig vertically then it’s looking up”
OH: “I’ve got my Linked Data Astronaut Helmet on”
OH: "Business Support loves you" #lifeattheodi
OH: “My slapping hand was twitching really badly”
OH: “Health and safeties are there to be broken”
OH: “ I don’t think I could do anything for two hours”
OH: "Ham is just junior bacon"
OH: “No test I’ve ever written has ever caught an error in my code and therefore they’re pointless”
OH: “Meeting karaoke”
OH: “Punch the face of adversity”
OH: “I’ve got to get into the mindset of cheap red wine”
OH: "Are they just fried in hot Guinness?"
OH: “It doesn’t fit
OH: "Urban pygmy"
OH: "I'd rather have people's pity than people's rage"
OH: "Maybe Adam just aspires to getting piles"
OH: "A precisely controlled
OH: “Bow-waving”
OH: "There isn't a clicker
OH: "Mature
OH: “Electrons are evil”
OH: “Gin is the secret”
OH: “4-Dimensional Sausage of Naming”
OH: “Polygons don’t exist in Scotland”
OH: “Table of Tectonic Shifts”
OH: “Evil Puppeteer of the Tech Team”
OH: "Artisan asbestos"
OH: "Yelp for dating"
OH: "My knowledge of London is based on where the clothes shops are"
OH: “The BBC is full of communists”
OH: “It’ll probably come with pre-loaded Coldplay”
OH: “Do Americans have cupboards?”
OH: “It’s coffee in the touchpad”
OH: "Veggieburgers"
OH: “Everybody needs to be punched in the face”
OH: “Anybody else before the meeting disintegrates?”
OH: "Why is that banana glowing?"
OH: "It's Hot Or Not with consequences"
OH: “Useful
OH: “Is meme disruption the new poo flashmob?”
OH: "Nim in disguise" #emfcamp
OH: "It was surprising but it got better the more you had of it" #emfcamp
OH: "Disrupting the meme industry" #emfcamp
OH: "Giant Poo Flashmobs" #emfcamp
OH: "I've found this app that's a bit like Tinder for fridges
OH: "EMF 2016: quill pens" #emfcamp
OH: "Duckstep"
OH: "I keep drinking whisky because it's the only liquid I have on me" #emfcamp
OH: "Brain helicopter" #emfcamp
OH: "Papyrus meetup" #emfcamp +@thattommyhall
OH: "I thought someone said hat" #emfcamp
OH: "Last night I had a dream where I was fighting a baby hippo" #emfcamp +@glowascii
OH: "If you put whisky in tea without milk
OH: "I ran an ultramarathon with fucking moustache wax in my rucksack"
OH: "Mouse farts" #emfcamp
OH: "Euroquid" #emfcamp
OH: "I crave gin"
OH: "I work with a lady who can do anything with a banana leaf"
OH: “If they do it
OH: “Some sort of electronic farting drumkit”
OH: “I actually feel like I want to stab a kitten”
OH: “Have you tried removing the lock and re-Berking?”
OH: "What's wrong with your socks?" "I  accidentally put them in the hummus"
OH: "Maybe he's an opportunist in a high-vis vest"
OH: “Everything seems right. But it's not”
OH: “What’s destroying children these days?” “Heroin and cake”
OH: “It’s not a blame culture if it’s true”
OH: “Occasional forays into Layer 4”
OH: "You cannot rely on crowdsourced data" lol #openaddresses
OH: "It's not for me to steal @JeniT's thunder"
OH: "Clump people together"
OH: "Interactive CD-ROM" 
OH: “I’ve been looking
OH: “Specific person says something specific”
OH: “What happens if you attach a laser-pointer to a cat’s head?”
OH: “If I do it when I stroke my beard and talk about mouthfeel it's basically healthy”
OH: “Maybe we should have a Guide Elf”
OH: "If you delve further there'll be sweetcorn"
OH: "They will go out like warm pancakes
OH: "Bookmarkable bin calendars"
OH: “I had to wash up like some sort of caveman”
OH: “It’s basically like a Nordic crime drama in Welsh”
OH: “Are you buying a domain called vodka.gin.win?”
OH: “It’s really weird. It’s not warm-warm
OH: "That looked like a unicorn but without a horn"
OH: "Age is pointless"
OH: "Regrets"
OH: “Just need the keys to the room and some tablets for the tiger
OH: "He looks like he should be in a Holbein painting"
OH: “We have Bimble in the Shims”
OH: “Do Brompton do unicycles?”
OH: “This is how it all ends
OH: "@UsVsTh3m is @BuzzFeedUK for grown-ups"
OH: "You get the occasional Hitler"
OH: “They didn’t have seconds in the 1970s”
OH: “Buckingham Palace? Wind yer neck in” “That’s a Pound Shop palace”
OH: "He speaks like he has two noses and both are clogged"
OH: "He looks like an Argentinian gangster Bill Murray"
OH: “Unicorns vs Velociraptors”
OH: “Everybody
OH: “Kraken-wrangler”
OH: “Open Data Amoeba”
OH: “Something sensible
OH: "Bumble cash"
OH: "Warm and slightly gross" /cc @andrea_cox_
OH: “Well he might be a real weed pope”
OH: “If you want to image the future”
OH: “Can you bar code a bee?”
OH: "The only way I know how to run a country is if it's hexagon-shaped"
OH: "The absence of a glitch"
OH: "Our days of not taking you seriously are definitely coming to a middle"
OH: “Misusing Github is basically our job description”
OH: "Wet slapback"
OH: “Pivoting madly”
OH: “This is how the World ends. Not with a bang
OH: "We're making microwaved eggs glamorous" #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “Standing on the shoulders of legacy bullshit”
OH: "I had no idea what Open Data was
OH: “I may punch you if you say more words”
OH: "It smells like licking the gate to a petting zoo"
OH: “Hot Gin & Tonic”
OH: “Semantic web
OH: “Is http://t.co/QrZ1s85ngg the new leekspin?”
OH: “I don’t if the machine needed rebooting
OH: “A CSV doesn’t have to have commas in it”
OH: “Do I have to sleep with the robot or can I just spoon it?”
OH: “I don’t know a lot about Lego
OH: “He who dies with the most Lego wins”
OH: "She's collecting nuts for Jesus"
OH: “Mutually explusive”
OH: “I am a mixed bag of happy and melancholy and happy and melancholy”
OH: "Evil just makes things work better"
OH: "Without guacamole
OH: "Are you a corn-on-the-cob
OH: "A Leigh Dodds joint"
OH: “After Telford it gets a bit fuzzy”
OH: “It’s not a piano
OH: “Terry and Dune”
OH: “What’s the colour of Lent?”
OH: “I love the smell of bullshit in the morning”
OH: "Lead from the side"
OH: “I was just a bit angry and drank. I wasn’t gonna lose a shoe over it”
OH: "A burrito's sort of like a Mexican pie"
OH: “You don’t fix the guillotine
OH: “It's like eventbrite and meetup and lanyrd but different”
OH: "Tagging yourself with opinions"
OH: “You don’t want your toddler generating gamma rays”
OH: “Can you speak to my mum?” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “Funnels of uncertainty”
OH: “mossy bollock”
OH: “My Doges have gone wrong”
OH: “That’s not agile
OH: “I’m not irate
OH: “That’s Ruby
OH: “I misheard
OH: “It’s been lovely working here
OH: “I really want a tiger”
OH: “It’s basically raptor-washing. We pay lip service to the idea of a velociraptor-free workplace
OH: “I really wouldn’t want to have to cuddle an octopus”
OH: "Personal Data Exhaust Port"
OH: "A CSV is not just an Excel file with a different extension"
OH: "We're going to disrupt the beard-conditioner industry"
OH: "Quantified Stuff"
OH: “Panel-for-one”
OH: “That seems less broken”
OH: "Statistics is bullshit in a tie"
OH: "I really want to punch that word to death"
OH: “I need to stub it in the Rspec as well” #EuphemismsOfOurTime #LifeAtTheODI
OH: "Justin Hawkins ate my sausage"
OH: "There are different levels of terrible"
OH: "any org that has a 'Head of Robots' on its team is already a winner as far as I'm concerned"
OH: “I can’t spell F”
OH: “I’m in violent agreement with you”
OH: "It's a knife" "I know
OH: “All good art has crisps in it”
OH: “Plastic-churning Shit Machine”
OH: “Why is there no Mooncoin?”
OH: “We’re on the boundary of useful automation”
OH: “Something that’s linked-data-y without being offensive”
OH: “Partially not-born”
OH: "it doesn't look like a dog
OH: "Hand-crafted nuts"
OH: “A dog in a box with a rubber-band round its balls”
OH: “I was bored once”
OH: “I might have just shoved a piece of a tobacco leaf in my mouth. I regret that decision. It tasted like a leaf. In case you are curious”
OH: “Artisan Meth”
OH: “I managed to unblock myself on the train”
OH: “I’m watching YouTube
OH: “Enterprise Service Bus”
OH: “Ow
OH: “It’s a Stormtrooper in a teacup”
OH: “Gantt chart”
OH: “Retarded lady pockets”
OH: "Flattening the Ballmer Peak with Cucumber"
OH: "I'm feeling brace"
OH: “It’s much easier to be nice” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “The David Attenborough of art”
OH: “Sheffield. The Hawaii of the North”
OH: “Is that Latin for Lorem Ipsum?”
OH: “Baroness Tennison of the Internet”
OH: “Follow someone with a beard”
OH: “Captain Passage”
OH: “Putting the fun in funicular”
OH: “You don’t have a Fairphone? Why do you hate the children of the Congo?”
OH: “There’s an impending sense of me going to the coffee place”
OH: “It’s a vexatious fridge”
OH: “Ooh
OH: “Wait
OH: "A yard is just like an austerity metre"
OH: "the second most famous person in Diversity"
OH: "Why can't we wrestle cats?"
OH: "they're law-abiding until we change the law correctly"
OH: "my challenge now is to bed a racist German"
OH: “If I haven’t heard of it
OH: “I’ve got whisky in my cupboard”
OH: "this is very much a follow-up breakfast"
OH: “If you’re having merge problems I feel bad for you son”
OH: “Unexpected item in tagging area”
OH: “decision spiral”
OH: “structured procrastination”
OH: “Installing nokogiri”
OH: "the reason I don't like prawns is the same reason I really
OH: “what is Danny Dyer actually for?”
OH: “It’s been too long since I clogged my arteries with a deep-fried cheese omelette”
OH: “a fog of enthusiasm” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “We’re a tech cloud”
OH: “my gas was more powerful yesterday than the day before”
OH: "one of my friends has been having a standoff with a goat"
OH: "the opportunity cost of @davetaz"
OH: “shoved through a synthetic civet”
OH: “Opinions are cheap”
OH: “I’m the space where people stare”
OH: “It was like the feckin’ Willy Wonka Golden Ticket”
OH: “Which of these antipatterns would you like us to build first?”
OH: “I just drank some mystery substance”
OH: “The problem is that the start-ups are quite lumpy”
OH: “we’re all Shoreditch-compliant”
OH: “the hacker community is not the Spice Girls”
OH: “SalesForce is gonna be the next IBM” #WAT #Shoreditch #cobblers
OH: “Trying to buy this URL”
OH: “It looks simpler than Oauth”
OH: "Clarity void"
OH: “Pushing to master
OH: “He looks less like an old lesbian than Paul McCartney”
OH: “Sam
OH: “Refactoring - it’s like peeling PVA glue off a spatula” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “You can rip out some good ones after Pepsi Max. Especially if it’s warm”
OH: “it went in through the bimbling process” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “will see if I can do something useful later” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “If people start to know me as the Flamingo Guy
OH: “It’s like a cross between a dating site and GroupOn”
OH: “preduction”
OH: “Punishment Hug”
OH: “They’re like the English Defence League
OH: “this was all started by a giant Mr Darcy”
OH: “I know where the hammer goes” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “like the Lion King with owls”
OH: “Fracking for Open Data”
OH: "the Chicken-Whisperer"
OH: “Magic Google Stuff”
OH: "If you've never handled a weapon when you're drunk
OH: “confused-looking lady”
OH: “Notification Anxiety”
OH: “Gibson has become my Bibendum”
OH: "that's just a wild guess
OH: “I was so angry that I bought a Brompton”
OH: “So last night
OH: “A punch in the face is better than being stabbed”
OH: “Put Hoppler onto the Subaru”
OH: “I have three things”
OH: “your entire professional output is one big namespace collision”
OH: “I need to fix my helicopter”
OH: "they reproduce using spores WHICH IS UNNATURAL"
OH: “@davetaz’s IP goes up to 11”
OH: “It’s like BitTorrent
OH: “I like my meat well-marbled”
OH: “@otfrom is a business”
OH: “Buzzfeed: it’s like McDonald’s for the mind”
OH: “All this does is
OH: “My background is the fuzzy world of history”
OH: “Lloytron are the father of all lies”
OH: "I might try the other industrial-estate barbers in Bridgend"
OH: “I love his yawn
OH: “But on the good side
OH: “wonder how hard it would be to make a magma powered vagrant”
OH: “I’ve eaten a huge amount of lunch
OH: “If you get anywhere up around a billion rows into SQL Server
OH: “A high-quality train beer”
OH: “I follow all sorts of random instructions on the internet and then give up”
OH: "do you want to be on the train or under it?"
OH: "I've found that crying in bars is very lucrative"
OH: “I just paste what I find on the Internet”
OH: “It’s not really a winged serpent
OH: "injected like a custard doughnut"
OH: “Philanderers gonna philand”
OH: “AWS are building a wonderful cage for you”
OH: “Their strategy for avoiding future traffic spikes is just to have really lacklustre content”
OH: “I think we should standardise on using the URLs that work” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: “Staff vs the iPad”
OH: “That’s… not completely wrong”
OH: “I’ve never played it with another person
OH: “I’m getting rid of the body”
OH: "I kind of draw the line at weird spiritual breathing shit"
OH: “I hate writing code as much as the next programmer”
OH: “That sounds like it has some nasty edge cases” “Like a bag full of razors”
OH: “warning: May Contain Actual Dave”
OH: “@otfrom is made out of really dense fluff”
OH: “If your name is Zaphod Tablet
OH: “I loved playing Streetfighter. It felt like really hyperactive bloody violent chess”
OH: “Things looking awful is down to users
OH: “Is @mrchrisadams the Dave Grohl lookalike?”
OH: "Take that
OH: “You work in Shoreditch
OH: “I like data” #LifeAtTheODI
OH: "If you Google 'fitbit washing machine' there are many
OH: "I'm not on Twitter
OH: "captain lunch be ragefacing"
OH: "I did buy a shrink-wrapping machine when I was in Singapore"
OH: "I'm not really sure about Dr Who. I remain convinced that 90% of his issues could be resolved with a handgun"
OH: "The moon's rubbish" "Is it?" "Well is it better than Alton Towers?"
OH: "people seem happy and are under 40"
OH:" Take that
OH: "I'm the librarian cow"
OH: "it still largely works"
OH: "I'll have one
OH: "\x04\xff\xf4\xff\xfd\x06" 501 309 "-" "-"
OH: "that's not meant to be a sitting sofa"
OH: "a pyramid of disappointment"
OH: "I'm too bewildered to usefully contribute"
OH: "I didn't really hear much of that
OH: "wooping cow people"
OH: "Does Agile mean Headless Chook?"
OH: "Full of brazen utility"
OH: "asset facet"
OH: "watch out for those brain dead non-upstarted thins"
OH: "SOMEONE NEEDS TO ORDER PIZZA"
OH: "I need some artisan pizza place"
OH: "I'm a Luddite". Said with considerable pride. In the offices of a tech company.
OH: "I have a friend who's an acrobat"
OH: "dizzying social challenges"
OH: "Using node is the less-stupid option"
OH: "I was pushing around a wheelbarrow full of pants"
OH: "That's Biblical cruft"
OH: "I'm permanently interested in everything"
OH: "does this mean i have to dribble oliver juice all over my salad on friday?"
OH: "we could buy some cheese and then if it turns out it isn't her birthday we could just eat it"
OH: "we clearly need rum for this"
OH: "okay
OH: "Focusing my rage into something productive"
OH: I only care about me
OH: there is no patch for human stupidity
OH: "I'm going to wash my peach"
OH: "He's up the Russian"
OH: "ACID-compliant
OH: "we should replace the Red Arrows with drones"
OH: "error:Meter on fire"
OH: "I guess I should count myself lucky that I don't have to shovel the midnight cruft"
OH: "You're not even giving it a chance to be awesome"
OH: "Find out which of our Jesuses will be given the bonus ball and avoid the sing-off." Nothing I say here can add to this.
OH: "We're in the Enterprise Social Networking space (think fb/li with twitter functionality but private to a given organisation)" #CantFail
OH: "rvm downloads the internet. repeatedly."
OH: "the definitive Catholic atheist"
OH: "ranting shirt"
OH: "Product scientist"
OH: "it's very raining"
OH: "testing for PHP" < does this involve blood and urine?
OH: "yay my stormtrooper outfit arrived"
OH: "Take this little kernel of value that we've created and make popcorn"
OH: "Misunderheard"
OH: "we're piping to /nev/dull" /via @mrchrisadams
OH: "Callback spaghetti"
OH: "Ninjas are never expected. Otherwise they wouldn't be ninjas
OH: "Ninja Greenhouse-Gas Experts"
OH: "The blog of foursquare"
OH: "Facebook is one big Bozo"
OH: "A proprietary black-box of LIES"
OH: "php is like living with your parents
OH: "I'm more cruft now than man"
OH: "Drones with ebola"
OH: "You'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong"
OH: "Flapping with Branden"
OH: "AMEE is a higher-dimensional company that's just projecting into this World"
OH: "Do you have to offset a flight you paid for but didn't go on?"
OH: "Whacked in the face with the Failrake"
OH: "A datamonkey we're looking to hire" /via @spatchcockable
OH: "Come to England: it's like Scotland's dangly bits" /via @Floppy
OH: "I've sporked the disco" /via @mrchrisadams
OH: "the Tech bishop is spoon only" /via @spatchcockable
OH: "You're watching the sausage being made"
OH: "Cucumber wrestling" /via @omphe
OH: "Some people just want to nail horseshoes onto a Vauxhall" /via @omphe
OH: "I'm in Hong Kong. It's like a massive Chinatown" /via Chris Hoolihan
OH: "Swag-bandits"
OH: 'echo "rvm 1.9.2@blah" | sed "s:.* \(.*\)@.*:\1:"'
OH: "I am sooo awesome" /cc @spatchcockable
OH: "Naked porridge"
OH: "would you mind erasing the large penis on the whiteboard?"
OH: "You haven't lived until you've straddled a swan"
OH: "dangerously sober" #Christmas
OH: "bimble; heorky depoly" #Drink
OH: "Pleased to meet you
OH: "I want to pull the zip but a little scared"
OH: "(erubis):3: unterminated string meets end of file" #AwesomeErrorMEssages
OH: "on the calculations of theoretical and practical understanding of climate change
OH: "Sometimes I feel so nice
OH: "Unique and interesting code"
OH: "it looks like disco points to the toad"
OH: "Select an load balancer above" #AmazonAreTrollingMe
OH: "An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again." #AWS #FFS
OH: "Embarrassingly Parallelisable" #AWS
OH: "S3 has 11 9s of durability" #AWS
OH: "my browserstack is mind-bendingly handy" #WordsOfWisdom from @mrchrisadams
OH: "It's free
OH: "My cat was having an asthma attack"
OH: "shorted out telephone line embedded in flowerbed to blame" #NoIDontKnowEither
OH: "Almonds taste like almonds because they're almonds"
OH: "it also has a fail prown and a success cake"
OH yesterday: "Rick-rolling? Rick Astley? He's some US pop star
OH: "I may have to work in a metal room below the waterline with very little natural light
OH: "once it's all good we'll re-enable the force" #WorkingWithJedis
OH: "I'm wondering about rewriting the code to use libcurl" < invariably the right answer /cc @terrahawkes
OH: "I've been busy in the president's lounge" #EuphemismsForOurTime
OH: "I have some men here putting holes in my ceiling unexpectedly."
OH: "Winzipping like a boss" #WordsOfWisdom
OH: "ow ow wasabi in the eye" #WTF
OH: "Objectively
OH: "People were mad it took 10 yrs for the Govt. to get bin Laden