My day to day responsibilities have changed pretty drastically in the last two years. I’ve gone from being the sole developer on a small, focused project to a manager over a department that is creating some some fairly large projects.
On second thought, it’s not so different. The challenges of the projects [...]
Friday night I released new version of my 2 Perl modules. I followed that up with more hacking over the last few days. Eventually I’ll release a new version of Clicker with some new features, but I got perturbed at it today and played the Xbox.
Speaking of XBox, Connect360 kicks ass. [...]
There’s a saying that’s floated around at my last two jobs. It was started by my one-time boss and continued by my current one. Difficult or irritating problems are often introducted by saying this:
I have an opportunity for you…
The idea, of course, is to frame a problem in it’s rosiest light. It’s become [...]
Highlights: Avoided a root canal.
At what do we labor? Seriously. Is it fleeting feelings? Some type of legacy? Honestly, I’m not really sure what the hell I’m after. I don’t think about it very often. But wait. Maybe I have inklings of an idea. I want to enrich the life of another. [...]
Child number four for Jackson and Sabrina ‘entered’ the world at 9:15a weighing in one ounce under 9lbs.
Congratulations guys!
emusic is all that iTunes isn’t. I can’t find good documentation but it looks like the label is getting a good share. Since they are indie I’m assuming the artist is getting taken care of. No DRM for me. Steve could learn something. Having many projects cooking at once is [...]
Outkast reference for the win.
I copped a Mac Mini over the weekend and have been slaving away to teach it how to pluck choice tidbits from the intarwebs to amuse me when I’m at home. This quest has been fruitful. Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Heroes are currently migrating [...]
You know you don’t write enough when people start reminding you that you have a blog.
I think that when life is going well I have less of an urge to document things. Plus there were the Holidays. So I’ve been busy with a number of things. First off I’ve spent the last few weeks [...]
Today NPR detailed education’s fight against the MPAA. It seems that colleges have been fighting to gain the ability to chop up and use footage from films to teach classes. This story put me on one of my soapboxes. There are very few issues which really get me fired up, and DRM [...]
It wasn’t that long ago that I woke up, took stock of my life and said What Now? I love my job, have great friends, and have all the things that, 10 years ago, I said I wanted to have. There are a few exceptions to that but nothing I could rush. [...]
Over the last few years I’ve really opened my eyes to what is going on in the world. I can speak somewhat intelligently about any current event that NPR covers. I read various blogs (mainstream or not) and watch a few news shows. It’s hard to do because when one looks closely [...]
Am I the only person who thinks it’s dumb for me to have a hard drive in my car, in my stereo, in my computer, in my console and in my DAP?
My computer already syncs with my DAP, as that’s where I download my music. My stereo is hooked to a Roku Soundbridge and [...]
I wrote around this time last year about how a cold snap can help to shrug off summer doldrums.
Perhaps doldrum is a strong word. Sloth is much more fitting. I don’t get depressed in the summer, but I do get lazy. This same malady will afflict me later in the winter. [...]
This is never fun.
This week I’ve had to say goodbye to someone I grew very, very close to over the last few years. Our time together was wondrous and occasionally maddening. Any relationship worth having usually is. Those that make you the happiest — by definition — can hurt you the most. It [...]
It started a few weeks ago. I started eyeballing cars.
No good can come from this. My 2004.5 Volvo S40 T5 has been good to me. It’s in wonderful condition (after having been replaced with a new one a little over a year ago) but the troubles I had have scared me away from Volvo. [...]
Writing on my blog tends to be a foul-weather event. I tend to write much more when things aren’t going so good. That is not to say that I write when things are bad. More that I comment on the negative more than the positive.
Pretty much every aspect of my life is [...]
Stemming from a discussion about ‘falling down and busting my head and my brains coming out’:
Child: I don’t have a brain! Me: Yes you do honey, everyone has to have a brain to function. Some people just don’t use their brains. Child: Who doesn’t use their brain daddy? Me: Republicans.
Start ‘em early.
From $work today:
Mike: They are bastards. Me: Yes, yes they are. All of them except Zidane. Everyone knows what he thought.
Weekends that I have Brenley always open with a trip to the grocery store. It’s an admittedly boring chore, but we make it fun.
Only seeing her every other weekend (and Wednesday) results in me being terribly excited to spend those first precious hours with her. This carries into our grocery trip. I [...]
I’m the beneficiary of a number of friendships, relationships, and acquaintances. I maintain a balance with all these people. This isn’t something we track per se, but it’s something that is karmically totaled. At times I am greatly in their debt. Other times they owe me. Most often things are [...]