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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it.
Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like  . We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
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A user sitting at his desk.
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 usually that's a training issue isn't it? Unless its the big boss who makes the mistake, you explain that as a glitch if you are happy in your work.
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does not answer brief but was not aware of this phenomena so thank-you 
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First thing to come to mind when you say "Glitch" is The Matrix, so perhaps a pictuer of Neo's head (complete with cool sunglasses) will do the job 
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but you would have to argue that Neo himself was a glitch, I mean clearly he would count (or would he  ), but you'd have to explain that all the time. I wonder if a page with data sort of symbol with a zappy line across it might say Matrix glitch better. Especially if it was green pen we used.
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Hello, my name is Smith. Agent Smith for you.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Nah, the black cat was the glitch. So a drawing of a cat.
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Good point, and an easy thing to draw
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A glitch is also the name for what happens when a neutron star undergoes a "starquake", changing the frequency of its rotation. Perhaps a picture of a small, vibrating ball...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Like this: its clear; its dissimilar from other symbols; its easy to draw with klutzy IT fingers; and most importantly its really geeky.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: small,
relatively small, but only if compared to a star
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: vibrating
rotation != vibration
And where are the two death rays it emits at the poles?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote:
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: vibrating
rotation != vibration
The vibrations refer to the starquake, not the rotation.
CodeWraith wrote: And where are the two death rays it emits at the poles?
I also don't show the electro-magnetic field, the gravitational field, and the Cheela living on the neutron star. This is a suggestion for a glyph, not a peer-reviewed article on Relativistic Physics!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: not a peer-reviewed article on Relativistic Physics!
Too bad. Should you still write the article, perhaps you should also mention the Hirogen[^] who love to stroll on the surface.
Quote: ...The Hirogen body armor had internal life support, with a breathing apparatus over the mouth and nose, and it can protect a Hirogen hunter while seeking prey in most hostile environments, including the surface of a collapsed star.
Good that they have life support when gravity crushes the protons into the neutrons.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: the Cheela living on the neutron star
+5 nerd points to Daniel! 
(excellent novel, BTW)
Software Zen: delete this;
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A fabric with a small hole/defect in it?
noop()
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Use the Mickeysoft logo.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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like the hand with the zappy fingers - retains concept that glitch may be down to user activity after all
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Wow what a site. Four dozens of crocodiles!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Another good suggestion, easy to draw and good back story.
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it is the Hamsters. It is ALWAYS the Hamsters.
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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How about a little gremlin?
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