WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck and Luke Morton requires Flash Player 9 or better.
Posted in Volume 2: A Life Astounded | 2 Comments »
The jokes in the above video are funny but are not always exaggerations. I have worked in development positions in which every single one of those statements are true. I am proud to be in a position now in which my boss sent me that video, cringing at first and then asking me if he [...]
Posted in Volume 2: A Life Astounded | No Comments »
Look, it’s not my place to gloat. Firstly, I don’t have all that much to gloat about and secondly it is wildly against my general disposition in regard to how I present myself. I will admit to being prideful; indeed I will admit to holding my ground when pressed on a subject or activity in [...]
Tags: Home, Lex, Life, Love, Work
Posted in Volume 1: Beginning With Clare | No Comments »
You’re out in the wild, doing your thang thang, and you get the approach. Maybe you’re at a bar and you should expect this, or maybe you’re just on the train on the way to work; you get that doe eyed look from someone you’ve never seen before – or perhaps you’ve met him/her only [...]
Tags: Coastertoast, Fun, Lex, Work
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
At the office, a ‘task force’ has been created to tackle one of our more ambitious goals. I have been chosen to represent the ‘ones and zeros’ aspect of the group and, ostensibly, to provide rapt attention to aspects of the group’s function which others within the group may miss as an effect of being [...]
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
I work too much. By that I don’t mean to say that I work 60hrs a week and have to come in one weekend a month; by that I mean that I come in at 6-7am, leave at 6-7pm and work a good portion of every weekend. I’ve had 2 days off in 3 years [...]
Tags: Work
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
1:00am rolls by with little regard to the fact that its eagerness to proceed with the chronological status quo directly contradicts my eagerness to not at all be awake right now. As it stands, however, the gauntlet has been thrown and the project must launch, personal preference be damned. I was once merely a developer. [...]
Tags: Caffeine, Code, Optimus Prime, Stress, Work
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
We are about 3 days from a complete technology move. Holy shit has this been a struggle. By the end of next week everything should be all wrapped up and tidy. The entire client base will be humming on my new engine/database and the importers will be handing out data like they were condoms at [...]
Tags: Film, Motivational Growth, Solder, Theft, Work
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
So much for that 3 day weekend. The technology shift at work required, still requires in fact, each and every one of my spare minutes. There are those who would say, and a younger more ideological me would agree, that the opportunity to spend a day in self revilation never be considered ‘spare time’. I [...]
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
My UE has a limit of a few hundred thousand text lines. At least it has a perceived limit, as that is about when the CPU decides it’s seen better days and tells you so by setting it’s squeaker to ‘beep’. I have a limit of about 44 consecutive work hours before I pass the [...]
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
I spent Friday evening on a low-level. Serious fun. I suggest everyone spend at least one night off firing a metaphorical round into the equally metaphorical brainpan of his blistered and haggard OS only to replace it with a copy that will surely be as pathetic and atrophied in nigh more than 4 months. I [...]
Tags: Code, Games, School, UT, Work
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
I have been spending what can only be described as an ‘unnatural’ amount of time at work for the last few months. It seems like every hour I put in at the office somehow begs another until finally I am either exhausted or asleep. I have a pair of orange fuzzy pillows and a course [...]
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
So, a lot has happened since my last post, kids and kittens. I spent Wednesday night rewriting my resume. It went from this huge font laden amalgam with what can only be described as an “inspired” layout to a plain text ASCII standard notepad kickout. I sent it to 1 (one) place and was called [...]
Tags: ASCII, Detroit, Film, Work
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
Alright – it is time for me to put myself down. I am obsolete. It is time to slip 900CCs of phenobarbital into the quick of my veins and let loose the dogs of war. This body is useless. I have tried somewhere around 45 different internet companies in this detestable little state and each [...]
Tags: Angst, Ire, Sadness, Work
Posted in Volume 0: Slices of the Past | No Comments »
I have a lot to do for little return. That always sucks. I am almost done with that store project, but it has become total hell and the payout is far less than the work put in. But hey, hopefully it will further my career and all of that. I have an interview w/ a [...]