poisonkitty had perhaps the best and most balanced advice on combating burnout. One element of the advice was specific to my profession: software guys need physical projects.

It made complete sense. I'd been doing that in some form or another, but hearing it from someone else put it into perspective. It didn't matter how crazy or bizzarre the project was ( Read more... )

Just one of those days where I can't compose myself for long on what I have to do. So I figured I'd write about some lighter topics for once to run down the day's clock.

iPhone 2.0 is keeping me up at night. I'll go to bed and and before I turn off the light, I figure I'll look around the app store and the free apps out there ( Read more... )

Yesterday marks six years to the day that I've lived in the Dallas area.

On June 24th, 2002 I showed up at newslacker's apartment in my 1982 white Saab 900, filled to the brim with all my belongings. It was about 4AM and I'd been driving for 16 hours straight. The Oregon economy had a 9% unemployment rate at the time and DFW had the only job for me out of ( Read more... )

Humoring samara_air who rarely posts anything at all, let alone meme's.

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, good or bad. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised about what people ( Read more... )

If you're a Galactica fan, and you haven't seen it yet...

... oh, I could sooooooooo spoil it for you. :D

I am happy with the ending.. unhappy with the 6+ month wait to see it play out, but they couldn't have stopped at a better place.

No clue where they go from here. Hopefully they can keep the loyalty of everyone that's stayed this long.

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I wrote this to my siblings just a few minutes ago, and would appreciate all y'all's feedback as well.
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On this day 22 years ago, the V.I. Lenin Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station exploded ( Read more... )

"I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that life is about the pursuit of happiness. The lesson of Desdemona's suffering and rejection of life insisted that old age would not continue the manifold pleasures of youth but would instead be a long trial that slowly robbed life of ( Read more... )