The older I get, the more I look like my Dad as I remember him in my childhood. The hints of grey. The wrinkles around the eyes. The bags under his eyes ( Read more... )

Had a brief dream last night where I was playing basketball with Tim Duncan and Leaf. He was giving me pointers on how to guard him (which is good, since I'm giving up a foot in height ( Read more... )

One of the suckiest elements about being a release engineer is the complete lack of a career path that doesn't end in management or development ( Read more... )

This last weekend the family packed itself into the ole jalopy and drove over the hill to shop. After going to the Winchester Toys 'R Us to pick up something that our local 'R Us didn't carry, we then ventured over to the Cupertino 99 Ranch Market to pick up a couple of Asian items that aren't carried anywhere in Santa Cruz country ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, in a near drunken stupor, I watched the final episode for 'Enterprise'. The excessive consumption of alcohol dulled me to all of the pain.

Look, Star Trek is rarely high art. However, 13 year old fanboys could have written a better episode. It's bad enough that the season started with a Godwin's law episode, but to have ( Read more... )

...sometimes they come back bearing letters from the White House ( Read more... )

It used to be that I blamed the demise of Enterprise on the writers having their collective heads up their asses. The temporal cold war, the Expanse diversion, and now the fairly wretched scripts of the final season. (Just because you throw in a bunch of fanboy bits into some episodes doesn't make them good. 'In a Mirror Darkly' anyone ( Read more... )

You'd think after all of this time, people would learn how to do software development properly. But no. The longer I work in the industry, the more I am convinced that every company has to fall into the same stupid traps that every other company falls into. I'm not surprised by anything that the industry can toss me ( Read more... )

I slept for 9 hours and feel great. First good night of sleep in a month.

When has it ever been a good idea to hardcode paths in your binary ( Read more... )