Bug Bash

If you were to ask me what JBB does for a living, I'd say he's a Software Engineer. If you were to ask A-Train, he'd say that his father pushes buttons at work. And though my answer may sound slightly more sophisticated, the fact is that A-Train and I have the same level of understanding about what JBB does.

Both A-Train and I can tell you that part of JBB's job is fixing bugs. If JBB has to work late, A-Train will assure me that he probably had a really tough bug and will be home soon. And I'm pretty sure that we both know we're not talking about creepy crawlies.

The only thing I may have a firmer understanding of is how the bugs are found. Apparently some of them are glaringly obvious and have to be fixed immediately. Then there are the others- the termites of the software world- which are well-hidden and waiting to crash everything when you least expect it. Those are the ones that you (OK, JBB and his cronies) have to search and destroy.

So, every so often there is a Bug Bash. All the guys, like Dave and Than (and Mary, the one girl in the office) get together and abuse the software in an attempt to unearth the bugs. And then, of course, they have to fix them.

And now that I've oh-so-elegantly explained the world of software construction, let me get to the part where I actually know what I'm talking about...


To represent bugs everywhere, both crawly and electronic, I made these chocolate cupcakes with green vanilla buttercream and marzipan lady bugs.