Are We Having Fun Yet? - Matt Offers to Fix the Uncreative Inquisitor

I don’t think I have ever asked the question “Are we having fun, yet?” (in Matt’s presence) so I am safe from the flames of Matt’s rant :)

After 3 attempts to understand the reason a person would ask such a question Matt decides this must be the algorithm a person uses:

Fourthly, as I already alluded to, this is the poor man’s sarcastic witticism. The poor man’s logic for arriving at a witticism runs something like this:

    if (CanThinkOfSomethingWitty()) {
        print SomethingWitty();
    } else {
        print "Are we having fun yet?";
    }

Matt then suggests a slight revision to this logic:

    $attempts = 0; $max_attempts = 5;
    while ((!CanThinkOfSomethingWitty()) && ($attempts < $max_attempts)) {
        $attempts++;
        sleep 1;
    }        
    if ($attempts < $max_attempts) {
        print SomethingWitty();
    } else {
        CounterpartExpectingResponse() ? die "Well, have a good day!" : print "";
    }

And always wanting to be of help and not just rant Matt makes the following offer:

Being the friendly and helpful guy that I am, I will personally volunteer to upgrade the firmware of anybody suffering from the above logic error for free! All you have to do is sign a little waiver, have me stop by with my handy-dandy EEPROM programmer, and you’ll be able to start using the new and improved logic (almost) right away.