Author: John Rhea

John is a storyteller with design and development skills. He designs and builds websites at https://johnrhea.com, counts his words carefully at https://8wordstories.com and helps you kill zombies while learning web development right here at the Undead Institute. He lives near Charlottesville, VA with his wife, Carrielyn, and, like, a lot of kids (eight at last count) plus more pets than is wise to enumerate. If you see him and he’s both awake and properly dressed, you know he’s having a good day.

Terrible Zombie Jokes

Why did the zombie wonder around the bow of the ship?

It was looking for the head.

How do you know if an emo band has become zombies?

Both the band and the audience are moaning.

How do you get a zombie to leave you alone?

Show it your test scores. 

What does your Aunt call your zombie Uncle’s evening out on the town?

Night of the Living Fred

What does a zombie call a delicious meal?

Braaainy

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8 Word Stories

The human plague dispatched half of the horde.

She shoved figs and <figcaption>s down zombie throats.

The four horsemen succumbed to the zombie contagion.

“<rip> zombies!”
“It’s <rp>. There’s no <rip> element.”

One day he’d leave the zombie for dead…

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Tips, Tricks, & Zombie Hits

Pricing Like Zombie Punching is Hard

In creating a price a good place to start is to estimate how many hours it will take you to complete (including how many hours a month you plan to work in provided support). Once you have a number you should probably double it as you have to account for overhead (meetings, trading emails etc.) and for a lack of experience in making these estimates.

The Zombie Isn’t Always Right

While the “customer is always right” is said a lot, even if you believe that, they’re not hiring you to be a yes man or yes woman. Bring your expertise and tell them if a way they want to go is a bad idea. If they insist and it turns out disastrously, you’re on record as opposing the idea. If you don’t protest, they’ll blame you, anyway.

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