---
title: "38% evil"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/23/38-evil.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/23/38-evil.html"
published: "2004-02-23T19:46:00"
updated: "2004-02-23T19:46:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Chris made me do it."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# 38% evil

By Roy Osherove February 23, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 23, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Chris](http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1143) made me do it.

[![This site is certified 38% EVIL by the Gematriculator](https://osherove.com/img/wb/d7d0481a_homokaasu.org_pics_g_e38.jpg)](http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/?referer)

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Feb 25, 2004

    ### [Thanks for the System.Web.Mail FAQ, Dave](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/25/thanks-for-the-systemwebmail-faq-dave.html)

- Feb 24, 2004

    ### [.Net Rocks bullet points](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/24/net-rocks-bullet-points.html)

- Feb 22, 2004

    ### [A Power-Point mystery](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/22/a-power-point-mystery.html)

- Feb 19, 2004

    ### [Weekend off](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/19/weekend-off.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/