It’s been a long time since I posted. I’ve been wrapped up in endless development cycles, dealing with real world stuff and generally had way too much going on to have the time to deposit any gems of wisdom on you. Of course, that presupposes that at this point, I do. Which I do not… I’m not making any promises now, but I will certainly try to post more soon. For now, that evergreen post maker, a list: We’re moving…
Team, it’s been a long project, it’s been a tough project. You’ve developed bravely, proudly for your company. You’re a special group. You’ve found in one another a bond, that exists only in engineering, among brothers. You’ve coded for long hours, debugged each others work in dire moments. You’ve seen error messages and suffered through full regression tests together. I’m proud to have served with each and every one of you. You all deserve long and happy lives in peace….
This piece is in honor of the most under appreciated among us, the assholes. You know of whom I speak, perhaps it’s that boss that relishes dumping a 3 day project on you at 2pm on Friday, ruining your weekend, maybe it’s that brother in law who reformatted the disk on your computer losing all your file, or perhaps its that neighbor who keeps slipping into your now denuded garage to borrow tools which somehow never find their way back…..
Here’s a well produced cut from String Cheese Incident of Joyful Sound. I have no idea where or when this was recorded, but I’m betting by the general quality it was from sothe 2005-2010 period. Band Site Wikipedia Site Archive.org Live Concert Archive
I got a bill today, or rather a receipt for a purchase already completed, from iTunes. $20.93 for a variety of $.99 transactions. Strange, as I haven’t bought anything lately. On further investigation, it was an App called “Pocket God” that one of the girls apparently added. That came for $4.99 and then all of a sudden a slew of in app purchases. It reminds me of “The Eagle” in “Angry Birds” which allows a user to get past a…
It occurs to me that around the first of the year, I promised you more cute and cuddly weasels. Promise delivered…
I shot plenty of video as I walked around the 2011 Boat Show with my two daughters, but I haven’t had time to post edit and honestly, I’m not sure it’s all that good to begin with. My hand shake (essential tremor) has gotten bad enough that I don’t think I should be handling the lens work anymore. My initial thought was that there were a whole lot more ski and sun boats this year. The true coastal fishing machines…
I found this brilliant graphic over at oatmeal (hat tip to Matt Brodeur for pointing the site out) and it hits on a subject that’s been on my mind the past couple days: shopping carts that suck. The oatmeal crews has definitely hit the nail on the head, so much so that I forwarded the thing over to the other Senior Engineer I work with as well as our Front End Design Lead, intending it as a subject for Monday…
Most of us never even realize it, but Facebook allows us to moderate the comments that show up against our posts. In the base usage, it is very important as it allows you to remove the comments your college roommate posted containing links to the pics of you doing belly shots off an Asian hooker in Vegas last week when your boss thought you were home sick. The problem is that it makes us all Online Community Moderators, and even…
Over the weekend, The New York Times proclaimed that blogging is dead. I guess with their vast experience working with dead and dying media, they’d probably be able to recognize a fellow dinosaur headed for an early grave… All kidding aside, they’ve hit on something. The days when everyone and their brother gets into blogging are probably over. A year or two ago many “blogging gurus” would tell us that “we’re all media now”. The truth of the thing is…