Met some random upper management type in the break room just now while getting a hot chocolate. Him: “So what do you do?” Me: “I’m working on the [workstuff] and [project1] and [project2]” Him: “Oh cool, that’s an amazing program, did you write it?” (referring to [project1]) Me: “Erhmm….” Luckily at this point someone poked […]
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Even though Erik won’t take take the Geek Test, I will. Came out with: 38.46154% – Major Geek
Coming back to work from Quiznos (<don cherry>”toasted tastes better!”</don cherry>) there was an example of how in my mind, Americans and Canadians are different, or at least, how I am different from the driver. It was me, the other coder, and the dirver, a young lady originally from the states but who has recently
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It looks like real.com has announced it has an online music store called “Rhapsody”. This will be used I assume, to compete with the Apple Music Store. Still no love for me. Apple Music Store Mac hardware only, and I’m not going to pay $2000-4000 to get what I admit is a decent app in
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Oh god, I never want to see another windows boot screen again. I’ve been trying to fix some strange problems with the winbox (which didn’t get a hardware upgrade except for video and sound card, but that’s another long story). Basically these consist of it giving me a lovely BSOD a few seconds into it’s
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The new boss invited me out to play soccer with him and some folks who get together just down the road from here, and like a fool, I accepted. Heck, even rode my bike down there. It was a lot of fun, but I know I’m going to hurt tomorrow. Badly. My cousin is going
I went through some of this list of signs you’ve been climbing too long saying “climb friends fireplace? yup, get on the roof without a ladder? yup, climbing equipment worth more than my care? yup (used to be anyway), looking at holds in the sidewalk? more than once, hurts to hold the steering wheel coming
Scott has a good post of recommendations for new CS graduates is food for thought. I was lucky enough to keep a job that I got while in the co-op program at school, and stayed there for… well, far too long. Most of the post comes out to “get street cred”, which is good. I
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[alan@workbox alan]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 318880 313500 5380 0 13152 126864 -/+ buffers/cache: 173484 145396 Swap: 257000 21280 235720 Sure, it’s completely filled up, but that extra 256mb (well, actually 192 because of the asshat way that the HP Pavilion is set up, with only two DIMM slots and coming
It was a weekend and a half I think. On Saturday we went down to Seattle with Yohimbe and WebDivaD for CthulhuWife’s birthday party. The drive was ok, except for the random torrential downpours that we encountered. About halfway there we encountered an accident which had things backed up right around an offramp. That offramp
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