Comments on: Shit Happens

By: Hugo Fuchs

Hugo Fuchs — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:08:41 +0000

Murphy's law is actually a misquote of him.

There's also the Corollary of Infinite Flaws"
No matter how many flaws you eliminate from a system, there will always be one more there, ready to make things go wrong.

I prefer Stapp's Law A.K.A. Stapp's Ironicle Paradox:
The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle

Here's the Article from the Annals of Improbable Research.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:49:54 +0000

We're a week out from the first day of shooting the show I'm on. A couple of days ago, we held sort of a status meeting with all the department heads. At the end of the meeting, the director gave a little pep talk, the gist of which was, “I know things will occasionally go into the shitter. Shit happens. But I want everyone to keep an optimistic attitude. Problems are just Opportunities To Come Up With Something Better“.

About an hour later, I realized that the location he said we'd have “because it was his friend's restaurant” wasn't going to work out. I took perverse joy in emailing him that I had our first Opportunity To Come Up With Something Better.

By: Michael Bennett Cohn

Michael Bennett Cohn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:37:18 +0000

I suspect that many of the real-life stories implied here are often more compelling than the movies, TV shows, and commercials that are the reason all this is happening to begin with.