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Employed
So, I have a job again. A real, honest-to-goodness full-time job that may well be the one I retire from. I'm the new CTO for a small Toronto-based software company. Unlike my last company, this one has been a going concern for 30 years, and is making money. We have a small team in China, although we're looking to increase it as I figure out a way ( Read more... ) -
Tired, so tired.
I hate jet lag. You'd think after enough trips, I'd get used to it, but no. It's not so bad when I fly to Japan; it's when I come back that I suffer most. This is my second day back, and yet again I woke up in the middle of the night, wide awake and unable to sleep any longer. So now it's 5pm, and I'm tired and headache-y, and want nothing more ( Read more... ) -
Maybe I have a streak of masochism after all
Since I'm actually posting to my journal instead of just semi-monthly perusals of my flist, I should also note that I have signed up for Japanese Level III at George Brown College. I discovered a month-old email from my Level I teacher in the spam folder of my old work account (I am still technically a shareholder and helping them out, so I still ( Read more... ) -
People aren't as smart as they think they are
Not even smartasses blogging about it. It's human nature -- you can't help over-estimating your own perception, at least some of the time. So, I wish the dumbass director at work would understand that when I tell him to put a stop to some asshattery by some of his staff, he'd listen. You see, he knows better. He says that he's picking his fights ( ( Read more... ) -
Will wonders never cease...
Much to my amazement, a few things actually seem to be going well these days ( Read more... ) -
Friends of a certain gall bladder-ectomy survivor
Friends of littleminx can read an update from me about her condition here. -
In today's meaningless test...
I followed kayt_arminta's example of trying this IQ test. I've never put much stock in the these sort of tests, since they're generally more about observation and memory than actual reasoning power. But much like the linguistics test I posted weeks ago (it's too difficult to search when I'm posting from my phone), I wonder just how much statistical spread they ( Read more... ) -
America becomes more of a joke everyday
We all know that the U.S. has become a cauldron of fear, government interference and discrimination. But now they're exporting it to some pretty unexpected places: Austrian bank bought by U.S. consortium tells Cuban-born customer to go elsewhere. Ah, yes. Home of the Free™. -
Pics posted promptly
Last night I posted a few pictures from my Tokyo trip. The usual disclaimers apply (I barely know which end of the camera to look through, these are holiday snaps, etc.).
I posted this link on a board I participate on, but here's my favourite novelty song of all time: Denis Leary's I'm An Asshole (unsurprisingly, the song contains NSFW lyrics). -
Jet....... lag..... and bruises in the family
Inspired by the recent lj re-emergence of someone on my flist, I figure it's about time I actually posted something. Because after all, once you're gone, it's things like lj that people will have to remember you by ( Read more... )