#manfiches

[astropithecus]

[astropithecus]

The beta gremlin, he checks in code with bugs late at night while everyone is sleeping, right before beta starts in the production environment.

Also, "manfiches." Sometimes when I try to take notes, the subjective experience feels like my brain loses track of what my hand is doing, or vice versa. This leads to a sort of psychography, automatic writing, where I write things down without consciously considering them. Usually it's words from the conversation, sometimes even words I'm saying. One time I wrote down my own email address. One time I wrote my own name. This time I wrote a latin-esque romance language word, French or Spanish or Italian. I don't know where it came from, what my brain told my hand to write was "report format."

So I made it spooky looking. Manfiches. I don't think it's a proper word in any language - Google translate says "manfiche" is Italian for "wicked" and "fiches" is French for "sheets" (like paper) but manfiches isn't a word in either.

I say it like microfiches (*MAN-feesh-ez*). You could pronounce it like niche (*MAN-fitch-ez*) but that sounds like ordering a sloppy joe in Russian.