Decisions
Good Points
I really think it comes down to compromise between customers and support. I also feel that many people in technical support forget that they are in a service industry. A good friend of mine once pointed out that it has to suck for the people who work the drive thru at McDonalds, but we always expect them to be perfect. That really made me start thinking about what I do for a living.
PIBKAC
Fashion and Friends
http://www.jessiicahowellfashions.com/
Go to that link. That is the storefront for one of my closest childhood friends. I’ll be the first to admit that I am horrible at keeping in touch with people, thank goodness for Facebook! Jessiica is an immensely talented designer and I strongly encourage everyone to support her! Her line of tank tops are up now, more on the way!
Thieving Assholes
To the asshole who broke into my truck (yes again). Fuck you.
Any asshole can pop a lock and grab a bag containing someone’s laptop and ipad. That’s easy to do you incestuous crack whore. It takes real talent to do so without damaging the truck. I hate being robbed, but thankfully I can remote wipe my hard-earned data from my stuff. Enjoy the bricks ass. I hope you get a decent price for the stuff so that you can continue to smoke meth or whatever.
Nexus 7
I’ve finally gotten my nexus 7 in. I love this thing!
check out www.treegloo.com for cases if you want something better than a gray stock case!
Party Time
When IT workers party they can get a bit “goofy”.
I’m with Neil
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/phenomenauts-neil-degrasse-tyson/
Not the best music video around, but it’s darn catchy.
Salt whaaa?
So recently a couple of friends mentioned salt cellars. My first reaction was “what the hell is a salt cellar? ” My second reaction was “I should forgo curiosity .”
Fuck me I decided to actually look it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_cellar
Silly me, I would have called it a fucking dish, or a bowl, or something like a salt thingy.
Calm
If any of you have ever seen the epic campus in Verona please let me know what you think. At first glance it’s geek paradise, scifi themes everywhere, spaced out with offices for everyone. Plenty of cute people walking around. I’ll tell you what I see. It’s a mirage hiding a workforce of programmers, brainwashed to accept their hell and think its heaven. Of course I’m sleep deprived…
Work Haiku
The calm is broken,
Idiots now run the ship.
Winter falls on us.
Nerdgasm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGt-saFvkNk
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY
Best line I’ve heard all day “We’ve got a Hulk”
That will be my default answer for the next few hours.
Red Corvettes
It’s not often that I find myself looking back at High School and appreciating those early formative years. Over the last few days I’ve had the opportunity to think back and realize just how bat shit insane some people were. It’s one thing to look up an old friend and chit chat about how they are doing, it’s another thing to bust out pictures of your 19 inch biceps and try to impress members of the opposite sex with your shiny red corvette and serenade them with Nickelback.
How to properly sword fight
For all the aspiring gentlemen:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html
I don’t know what is more amusing, the fact that this is online, or the fact that they can use quotes like this; “then he that thrusts first, speedeth: if both happen to thrust together, they are both in danger”; in polite society.
“Of six chief causes, that many valiant men think themselves by their practices to be skillful in their weapons, are yet many times in their fights sore hurt, and many times slain by men of small skill or none at all.”
– yeah. happens all the time.
Protests on Westheimer
Analogies
I can make a Star Trek analogy for anything. This both amuses me and makes me really sad.
Happy Chinese New Year
Happy Year of the Dragon!
Responsibility
It’s so important to be kind to the people in your life. It’s easy to take them for granted. Every day I strive to do better in this regard, lately it’s seemed even more important. Some days you sit back though and you see how people refuse to take responsibility for their actions. That is such a waste.
Don’t censor the web!
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
Where to begin…
This past week has to be one of the most difficult I’ve had to deal with in a very long time.
I’ve lost a friend, a coworker and a valued mentor. The world has lost a good person. I won’t get into specifics, those who need to know are already aware of what has happened. For my friend and the sake of his family I know that my wonderful coworkers and I will find a way to express his legacy in the most positive way possible.
Fair well dear friend. Be at peace knowing that you touched those around you in a positive way, and your memory will live on through the lives that you touched.
Prius(s)?
I don’t understand why most Prius owners driving on the freeway insist on staying in the passing lane and going slow.
Helicopter Pilot I’m not…
Well I managed to get my Air Hog trapped under a cable tray in the row of cubes outside. Someone somewhere has some good pics of me on a ladder on top of a cube fishing out my helicopter with a coat hanger. The CIO walking by was just icing on the cake 🙂
Cheetah the Chimp
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/28/showbiz/obit-tarzan-cheetah/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
That chimp lived to be 80 years old!
It’s the little things…
It’s always a nice day when you get to share some tiny bits of good news…
Free Fall From Space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=thyTzCU9c2U
This is simply bad ass!
What are they quoting?