Category: work
10/18/08 08:04 - 49ºF - ID#46182
Pseudo-Promotion
It's not really a promotion in the sense of title change, more of a coordinator role (still spend 80% of my own time writing code), but it's going to be nice when I have my yearly review next April to be able to claim credit for how nice things are going.
The best part of the job? Saying no to stupid things before they are forced upon us.
We're digging into a ground-up rewrite of one of our core products, an evaluation tool for Physical Therapy students. It's going much smoother then I had anticipated, although two of the guys we thought we'd have had on the project months ago are only now able to lay down Visual Studio and Fox Pro and join us.
There are two other ongoing projects too, so 3 things to keep tabs on and moving forward, plus all the training. Training devs is nice - another way to shape the company culture and make sure that we're doing things the same way. They really like Ruby over Fox Pro - big surprise :)
Thank God for the ADD drugs. I'd be hanging myself otherwise.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: starwars
10/16/08 10:21 - 50ºF - ID#46148
Episode 7?
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Words: 11
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
10/16/08 09:15 - 54ºF - ID#46139
McCain - Last Debate
What McCain said is not going to play well among independents. Virtually everyone thinks that there should always be exceptions for the mother's health. McCain was very dismissive and used air quotes.
Liberals say that a majority of Americans support abortion rights, and conservatives that a majority don't. The fine print in all that is that a majority support early abortions and oppose late abortions - so it's just how you phrase it in your campaign spots, I suppose.
Personally that's me, pretty much, I am OK with first trimester abortions, and progressively less at ease after that, and by the third trimester I think it's OK to heavily restrict abortions, as long as there are exceptions for rape/health. Which is pretty much what the Supreme Court has decided, right?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: internets
10/14/08 07:16 - 67ºF - ID#46116
POWERTHIRST
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Words: 7
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: apple
10/14/08 09:16 - 68ºF - ID#46104
HAPPY APPLE DAY
I'm hoping there is progresses towards my dream laptop, for purchase in 2010(?):
MacBook Air, 4gb RAM, 256gb SSD, Dual-DVI out - or better on any of those features.
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Words: 42
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
10/13/08 02:56 - 71ºF - ID#46094
Response to Joshua
So: conservatives never shout down liberals? You've never seen protestors yelling at a gay pride parade? You've never seen conservative marches on Washington that vilify and call for the destruction of the left? You can't dismiss them as not being conservative, because the religious right and the hawks are a core constituency of conservative power.
What you're doing would be like me condemning all conservatives just because the conservatives who go to the effort to show up at a Palin rally call Obama a terrorist. Just because conservatives attack me in the street.
If I were to judge conservatives by the most outspoken among them, I would be forced to conclude that they are incapable of making an argument that wasn't based on emotions, hated anyone who wasn't just like themselves, and that all conservatives think you're unpatriotic and a terrorist sympathizer or faggot if you disagree with them.
Luckily, I don't judge conservatives by the worse among them.
The right is getting angrier and angrier, now that they're out of power. McCain-Palin rallies demonstrate this. Who do you think is going to be protesting in the streets these next 8 years? It's going to swing as the pendulum of power swings. You're just used to seeing the left out of power, not in it.
I do accuse you of cherry picking and painting with too broad a brush. You can't see any incident without taking it as confirmation about what you already believe and are predisposed to think about groups of people. It drives me crazy.
UPDATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE OF CONSERVATIVES PROTESTING ME
I HAVE THUS SUCCESSFULLY PROVED THAT ALL CONSERVATIVES ARE MEAN SPIRITED LOL
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: culture
10/11/08 08:54 - 60ºF - ID#46067
The Wrongest Thing Ever
This sucks so much. They must have had actual requests from schools that caused them to set up an official program. Yuck.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: buffalo
10/11/08 08:29 - 45ºF - ID#46056
HAPPY OCTOBER STORMIVERSARY!
Hard to believe, hard to forget! Here's my yearly look back in photos, to October 12-13, 2006:
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Words: 94
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: trekkies
10/10/08 12:10 - 59ºF - ID#46042
CAPTAIN PICARD
This video is made of awesome.
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Words: 22
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: dreams
10/10/08 09:45 - 50ºF - ID#46037
Strange Dream
Then, it started getting even weirder. They kept finding other kids hidden in their house that I'd took pity on and invited over. Like, we'd be in the living room and all of a sudden we'd notice some kid hidding under the couch. Or in closets, just everywhere.
Drew and Janelle were very sympathetic and didn't want to force these kids to go back out on the streets, but by the end of the dream there were like 30 of us kids in their house and they were starting to panic about how to take care of us. They were very aggravated with me for putting them in the position of having to take in all these kids, but were too nice to say anything.
Then I woke up.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Like, our biggest product is a survey tool, and it sees greatest use at the end of every semester, but hardly any before then expect the school users setting things up.
But, then December/May we have 10 million page requests a day. Seems lame to have servers humming along all year for no reason.
That's what the 'no' photo above is about :)
Servers should never have GUI's. He's a windows guy :(
All of our servers are getting virtualized. They are moving toward a server farm setup because it is more energy and space efficient. At first I was iffy about it but the idea is pretty sweet. Then again we have hundreds of servers to start with.
I suggested we'll only needed 5 or 6, but my boss told me to double the request to be sure we could handle anything that arises.