Carolinian's Journal

03/07/2008 02:19 #43572

Dodged the bullet
Category: job

Before I got my job in Buffalo, I was severely underemployed in NC and desperately looking for work.

I wanted to work for this one mobile content divider; they seemed cool, and I knew some people in the company who might put in a good word for me. I also really wanted this one social software engineer position at Apple. I got neither job, and ever since I came up here I always replayed in my mind the "what if they hired me" scenarios.

This week, I learned that the mobile company was laying off a lot of its staff and quitting the area I wanted to stay in.

I also read the blog by the guy who got the social software engineer position, and he says the position was pretty limiting.

I guess the point of this post is that it's kinda weird to look back and see the smoking craters of decisions I might have made if my life had gone exactly way I wanted it to, and to feel I'm lucky that it didn't.

jenks - 03/07/08 14:31
so this is totally OT, but....
have you downloaded the iphone SDK and written any cool apps yet?

:)

leetee - 03/07/08 09:44
This is a facinating subject to me. We all gripe and complan whe things in our lives go "wrong".

Even simple things like missing a bus or train, not making a light. We are bummed, annoyed, stressed. But, what if we had caught those things and gotten into an accident?

With major events in our lives, we can become so downtrodden about things that happen or did not happen. Not all of us get the chance to look back to see what could have happened. So totally cool that you could.

02/24/2008 02:55 #43442

today
Category: baby, sick

Summary of the day.

(e:inscrutable) and I went to the childbirth class at Children's Hospital. We did the whole breathing thing, the whole pillow thing, and the identify-various-baby-hygiene-ointments-and-potions thing. We ate at the Cafeteria, which wasn't awful but doesn't really deserve a Visco-style food porn pictorial.

Missed Bedouin Soundclash at Mohawk Place because the cold I've been having the last several weeks re-intensified and I had to stay in bed. I hate being sick; it always seems to happen when there's something that I really want to do that I can't do very often, like seeing my favorite band perform in Buffalo.

metalpeter - 02/24/08 12:20
I'm going to play shrink here for a second. Do you think that there is some part of you that deep down not even know to you wants you to not be happy or wants you stay in and not have fun. That subconcious (sorry I can't spell) causes you to get sick near when you want to do something fun. I'm not saying you should think to much about it. I'm just going on the fact that you said when ever there is something you want to do something messes it up. On a side note I was thinking about going to see them and forgot about them (not a favorite or anything but it would have been fun).

paul - 02/24/08 11:36
Roswell's food is not as good as it used to be ;(

02/07/2008 13:42 #43231

I officially hate all Buffalo utilities
Category: corporate nonsense

Apparently, after I explicitly told National Fuel to cut off service to my apartment on Richmond on Nov. 1st, they didn't stop billing me.

In fact, they pretty much kept on billing me until Dec. 14th. So between Nov. 1st and now (my last and hopefully final bill from the old place), I've been paying/owing those idiots $300 for the privilege of heating the old place I no longer live in. And they say they "have no record of a cut-off request".

I am so unbelievably pissed right now.

Why can't any utility company in Buffalo get anything right? And where is the copious amounts of money that we pay them going that they can't fix the most basic website/computer/customer service problems?

metalpeter - 02/07/08 18:52
For future reference I think to have it turned off you have to be there and someone has to show up to get a final reading of what you are at. That is the way it works to get it turned on. I could be wrong about that but I think that is how it works.

01/30/2008 16:10 #43097

Observation
Category: filler

Clicking Paul's snowflakes.
Like digital bubble wrap
Strangely addictive.

jbeatty - 01/30/08 22:30
Some things are best summed up in haiku format

mrdeadlier - 01/30/08 16:43
I hate them but only because it means it's snowing outside.

news - 01/30/08 16:35
The new site has faster tinier ones, so it will be more challenging :)

01/29/2008 11:13 #43078

Work Success
Category: programming

I have discovered one of the deep, dark, ancient secrets of my predecessors at work: how they generated bar codes.

This occasion calls for a beer. Too bad my throat's sore and I can't eat/drink anything.

carolinian - 01/29/08 15:32
I think it was Bedouin Soundclash

:::link:::

They're coming to Buffalo Feb. 23. I'm so psyched.

museumchick - 01/29/08 14:37
Congrats on the work stuff.

Hey, what was that cool band that you played for me on Passover? I wanted to check out their songs.