Eliminated: ScrumMaster
I didn't shoot the ScrumMaster anymore than Bob Marley and Eric Clapton shot the deputy. I am on my quest to eliminate bloat from my life in areas that are not working. This discussion of elimination...
View ArticleEliminated: 4 Bags of Clothes
I live a bit like an Amish person, if Amish people liked computers and alcohol. Still, out of sheer laziness over the last couple of years, I was able to accumulate 4 paper grocery bags worth of...
View ArticleEliminated: Eating as a Hobby
My version of the Paleo-diet is as close as I'll ever get to fasting. Fast from eating food? No way. When I see cows, I see beautiful hunks of bloody meat and beautiful mounds of fattening brie. Pigs...
View ArticleReflections on the first Shabberemy
I have some good friends who are Jewish, one in particular who I have great intellectual discussions with in regards to the various practices of Judaism. One practice that I love is the Shabbat. While...
View ArticleOn Being 34
I finally listened to the Billy Collins CD that my wife's parents gave to us.First and foremost, the CD is fucking awesome, if for no other reason than to hear Bill Murray introduce Billy Collins.The...
View ArticleCrazy, not insane
In regards to a decision that I recently made, my wife told me that:Given that my favorite book ever is Catch 22, I'm very much okay with this assessment of my psychology. I've recently wondered if the...
View ArticleI'm a douche
I quit my most recent W2 job.Again.It seems I can hardly hold a job for more than 6 months, and this last one I almost, almost held for a year.It's shocking that I've been with the same woman for over...
View ArticleOn Vacation
A week and a half into my voluntary unemployment, I'm realizing I haven't had a vacation, or at least what feels like a vacation, since my Europe trip in 2004. Whatever I'm doing is starting to feel...
View ArticleThis blog is a testing ground
At times, it's a real blog. I felt it necessary to warn my 5 readers that I've gotten bored with just playing video games and have decided to program in my spare time when I'm not being a Hausmann.If...
View ArticleI'm done treating Internet Explorer like the handicapable kid on the...
When I'm whoring myself out for the Benjamins, I'll kiss Internet Explorer on the lips and love it like it was one of my lost siblings come home from the war.But I just had an incident tonight, with...
View ArticleDrinking and (de)bugging
With more than a bottle of Two Buck Chuck in me, last night became a night of drinking and failed attempts to debug a problem. This problem I referenced in my rant about Internet Explorer that I posted...
View ArticleReusable Code
A lot has happened since last Wednesday, which will be a story for another time, a long time in the future, which I'll probably use to frighten the grandkids.Since then I've been doing a lot of coding....
View ArticleThe Kung Fu Paradox
I heard this Mark Twain Quote the other day:When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the...
View ArticleWriting as Therapy
Once upon a time I quit my job to "go be a writer." This adventure failed, because I'm not much of a writer. Why even go on such a silly adventure? It was precipitated by my fascination with fantasy...
View ArticleThings I learned from Movies
I have pretty simple hobbies, and one of them is movie watching. I love movies, all kinds: good ones, bad ones, super awesome B-Movies with high budgets for special effects and no budgets for acting,...
View ArticleWeighted Data
Sometime in July of 2010, I stood on the scale and the scale told me, in block digital letters, that I weighed 179 lbs. In the grand scheme of things, that's not such a bad weight. Yet for the months...
View ArticleWhy this is not a technical blog
My day job is teaching introductory classes focused on web development. Over the last months, maybe due to the fact that in my classes I've been snarkier than usual, I've been getting a higher than...
View ArticleThe Electronic Legacy of Lucy Teh Chicken
About a year and a half ago we decided to get chickens. It's our version of pets, as we like cute animals but we're not very keen on creatures that do nothing more than eat, sleep, and lick themselves....
View ArticleThe A+ Job
Tomorrow I start a new job at a new company. I thought it a good moment to reflect on my most recent job, which I considered my first A+ job. I was in the company that Uber acquired (and I say it like...
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