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Late January, 2000 - San Francisco
Carlos came home one night from band practice and informed me that he was quitting the band, wanted to quit his job (which he had been hating ever since they hired the art director from hell) and I took advantage of that moment to ask, "so, you wanna move to New York?" He replied, "yes." Well, then he spent the next week waffling back and forth on ( Read more... ) -
Another decade closing?
As the decade comes to a close, I feel a bit compelled to document something about it. It's been a crazy, strange, fun, painful, depressing, uplifting 10 years. There's been good, there's been bad, there's been just plain ugly. I've been standing on the cliff between sanity and lack of sanity more times than I can recall and I've done a lot of ( Read more... ) -
Silence...
Wow, been a while since I posted anything. Being busy will do that...waaaay too busy. Not much of a social life these days, mostly work, work, work....and uh, work. Oh, and aside from a week off in December, it's going to keep up like this until at least February since we're in redesign/relaunch/replatform/retarded hell right now. I've been finding ( Read more... ) -
The Memes of our Lives...
meme stol'd from bentrazorUsing song names from only ONE artist, cleverly answer these 15 questions ( Read more... ) -
Random jackassery...
...because I'm half asleep. Left a comment on another journal and as I was moving the cursor to navigate the touchpad gave out for a second as it was hovering over my usericon. I was amused that the popup that appeared said "This is you." The little voice in my head popped up with a stand up comic mocking his girlfriend, "OH! HOW DO THEY KNOW?!?" ( Read more... ) -
Well, it's sorta official now...
...or at least, I've been updated in the company directory. Not sure when any of the small financial reward will kick in but I've been promoted to a Director of Technology. I've got 2 direct reports now and sometime soon (hopefully early next week) I'll be moving into an office after being banished out into the cube farm for 9 months and 8 days ago ( Read more... ) -
A cheap shot...
Supposing you're part of a hypothetical organization that happens to throw a party on the same night that a gargantuan party will be going on. Suppose you're trying to siphon off a little of the traffic going to that bigger party to stop off at your organization's party as a bit of a pre party. Now, suppose this bigger party has a certain theme to ( Read more... )