[djmcmath]

My Bimmer has had an intermittent fast blinker for years. I've replaced all the bulbs, cleaned all the grounds, read all the forums posts on what might be the problem, and it's still intermittent blinking fast. No idea why anymore, and at 215Kmi, I no longer care -- the turn signals all blink, they just blink fast. SMH.

I worked on a project a few years ago, like HardDrive, that had started out as a little single-computer thing, and had developed over a few years into a monstrosity. When I was working there, a single customer installation had ~100 separate networked computers, many of which were running code that we didn't own or control or even have insight into. Like HardDrive, a "senior" employee of that company had been around for about 2-3 years, so corporate knowledge was mediocre. As one of the integration/testing types, my job was to push on the system until it broke, and let me tell you, we found some bizarre things. We once found an easter egg where a polar bear wandered across the screen. I guess that'd be normal in a video game or something, but this was in software that was supposed to be delivered to the US Navy, for use on submarines, haha.

Working that job became an exercise in documenting exactly what we had done, so we could explain it to the developers. "No, seriously, you have to watch this: when I push this totally unrelated button over here, after having done that sequence of other totally unrelated things, that machine over there turns into an ice cream sandwich. But if we do it in this other order, everything works fine!" There's nothing so much fun as duplicating something insane and watching the engineers go crazy, hahaha.