Jess RoseBeen horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".
Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?
Jonty Wareing@jessie Instead of saying "I'll remember that" I'm gonna start saying "I'll back that up to my meat storage"
viq
Ben C@viq @jonty @jessie if you’ve not read it before… They’re Made of Meat by Terry Bisson. https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
Amo Bishop Rodent
They're Made Out of Meat
DerPumu (he/him)@jessie now I need the plural noun for meat storage. A rattling?
Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm)
paulcuth
2xfo
Ozzelot 
Kathy Reid@jessie so good 100% accurate
lick here for more info@jessie cold storage, hot storage, warm and squishy storage
chris48s
RejZoR@jessie SMV or Secure Meat Vault
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦
Jeff C@jessie
I have a few words to say about that...
https://artinbsd.blogspot.com/2011/02/artistic-understanding.html
@JeffC1956 oh, added to my to-read queue, thank you!
FREE🇵🇸PALESTINE, Says @Sine@jessie
stored in my gelatinous wetware 🧠
EDIT:
i had no idea my through-away comment, Gelatious WetWare had so much traction! Thank you! kind Mastodon People!🙂
"May your Gelatinous WetWare serve you long & well!" 🧠
@Sine_Nomine @jessie Gelatinous Wetware is a Pratchett villain you can't fool me
@Sine_Nomine @jessie I don't think it's *really* a Pratchett villain, but the phrase has the music of a Pratchett-pastiching-Dickens character name
Daburu Dar
Dave T-W@jessie Tacit knowledge: 🚫
Tasty knowledge: ✅
Tasty knowledge: ✅
Professor_StevensShop I worked in during the '80s referred to programmers generally as "the meatware."
Welcome to the party!
@Professor_Stevens MEATWARE!!!
Octoomy "Octoomy" Octoomy The Octoomy The Second@jessie idk why but that reminds me about the fact that AOL free trial disks were stuck into packs of frozen meat and somehow survived the trip.
ShadSterling
Panic at the Trishco 🕊️@jessie
Perhaps the more horrifying issue is institutional knowledge located in an imperfect memory bank.
I’ve forgotten more than my coworkers will ever learn.
Perhaps the more horrifying issue is institutional knowledge located in an imperfect memory bank.
I’ve forgotten more than my coworkers will ever learn.
@jessie
Oh God, I just translated that to your saying.
I’ve let more meat go rotten than my coworkers have ever butchered.
Brian Repko@jessie i love this - I’d almost be willing to come out of retirement just to say this
Giles@jessie People also get funny about referring to “the world about us” as Meatspace (as opposed to Cyberspace). I’m going to reintroduce this for in person meetings (meatings?)
Urban Hermit@gilesdring @jessie "meatings"
I can't believe that was just sitting there through the whole pandemic and Zoom and Teams things.
"They want a return to office so we can sit through more 'meatings'."
John Autry@Urban_Hermit @gilesdring @jessie
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings.
They did it by killing all those who opposed them.
Cats Who Resist!@jessie omg 
all of my license plates are locked in meat storage
all of my license plates are locked in meat storage
James Smith 💾@jessie I love this. I did a thing when doing system architecture a while back of starting to add people's brains into the diagrams for legacy systems; I think it's a useful concept! https://www.dxw.com/2022/07/legacy-tech-systems-are-like-the-walking-dead/
Zeborah
Skylar MacDonald@jessie I hate this and also will be using it at every available opportunity
Giles Sutcliffe@jessie paging Terry Bisson. Terry Bisson to the phone made out of meat...
standard issue dipshit@jessie this is horrible and I'm absolutely going to boost it after I press Post
Matt Brunt@jessie I’ll use that to describe the immense loss of knowledge after people leave too.
“Yeah it’s locked in meat storage that went to market”
Chris D.@jessie Tried it out, got a one-word response: “crikey”.
As intended, I suspect. Good work!
Jared
Alun Jones@jessie I like to remind my team of the guy I worked with, who died of a heart-attack at his home-office desk while working late one night, when I insist on documentation.
It's a lot more effective than "what if you win the lottery?" and doesn't draw nearly the same level of HR disapproval as "what if you got run over by my bus?"
It's a lot more effective than "what if you win the lottery?" and doesn't draw nearly the same level of HR disapproval as "what if you got run over by my bus?"
Graham WattI have used the phrase "in case I get hit by a bus", dozens of times, right after explaining where my current documentation and project tracking files are located. People die, get hurt, retire, quit, but if your culture is to share/document, maybe it isn't all in my meat-storage. Oh, fun fact, our coldest office space is lovingly referred to as the "meat locker".
neil okamoto@jessie give the information to the entire team and you've stored it in RAUM, the redundant array of unreliable meat. In German I think that's "space" or "room", so you've got the alternate interpretation of piling boxes of papers in a spare bedroom for eventual (but not easy or reliable) retrieval?
Third spruce tree on the left@jessie Well they can protest all they like, what are they gonna do, make disgusting meat sounds with their meat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
("They're Made of Meat" video short based on the Terry Bisson short story, about two aliens discussing, and being horrified that their investigations around Humans have discovered they are made of disgusting meat instead of silicon or metal (its never really discussed what the "good" alternative is or should be))
They're Made Out of Meat
Auf YouTube findest du großartige Videos und erstklassige Musik. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder mit der ganzen Welt teilen.
j-r conlinHeh, I like to call it "Imaginary Documentation" and let them argue that it's wrong.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@jessie Thinking meat? Sentient meat?! https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
The Turtle@jessie "nearline meatware storage."
laika@jessie
prediction:
dev team will love it, support team will get scared, infra team will get annoyed about dev team using it
prediction:
dev team will love it, support team will get scared, infra team will get annoyed about dev team using it
kolya@jessie meat storage saves jobs though 
@jessie fractious meat storage, no less
Dr. Sundancer@jessie WOW. I read through over 2/3 of the comments before I figured out that you weren't talking about undocumented people locked in an ICE facility. I was like, "these people like their humor DARK"! 😅
castastrophe@jessie Thanks, I hate it. 😂
clewtangential — one of my teams used to talk about the “bus factor” for the risk of meat documentation being lost to a car crash
Then one of our team was rear ended badly enough to be out for months
We had to come up with new terms because “bus factor” was too vivid and violent in reality
PLUS of course it wasn’t a bus, it was a big personal pickup
Floating Onion@clew Similar, I used to use the “big red bus” factor when talking about people resilience and key person risk. Until someone senior pointed out they were hit by an actual bus and taken out of a programme for a couple of months
@jessie I can see many opportunities to use “meat storage” coming up. That’s brilliant.
"won the lottery risk" worked okay for us, I think. Implying "called in rich, back never"
SCRUMschau