Posts about “work”
Dealing with Irrational People
Once again, Jason is scouring the ‘net to find me valuable information. This primer on Dealing With Irrational People could be very useful …
Walking Blues
I have to walk in front of the CEO’s office on my way to my office at HSND. This morning she said she didn’t know who I was because I was wearing my Red Sox hat. “I don’t recognize you unless I see that shiny blonde hair!” I laughed and took off my hat so
coding
From the Things That Are Not As Easy As They Sound Department: in-line unzipping of PGP-encrypted files with a .dll From the Valuable Resources for This Sort of Thing Department: vbAccelerator Okay, I really just wanted you to see what the heck it is I’m doing right now. In case, y’know, you were interested. Which
assuming
Many people visit this site, I’m assuming, and never even realize that by clicking on the menu bar above they can find out even more useless information about me. Did you know that I used to run Track for a bit in high school? That I used to row Crew for the University of Florida?
Kinves, Spoons, and Forks
Okay now that’s odd. I mean, you can tell that the knives are knives and not spoons or forks.
Christmas in July
There is something mildly disturbing about the fact that this is still happening. It’s not as disturbing as the very obviously female 300 lb person with a goatee and ponytail I saw smoking a cigarette and eating a twinkee in a wheelchair on the median while driving home from work, but that only happened once.
Wondering about Plastic Forks
Have you ever been searching the office coffee area for a plastic spoon, found an unmarked box full of plastic utensils, thought to yourself, “I just know they’re all gonna be forks,” looked and found that they are all, in fact, forks, and then wondered if that had ever possibly happened to anyone else? Man.
Serendipity Surfing
Good Christmas! I can’t believe I’m serendipity-surfing at 7:30 am. But just check out “I Shoot With My Mind” … … must … shower … shave … go … to … work …
Work v. Play
I told my boss that I would either spend the day downloading mp3s instead of coding or he could just hand over his stack of 30 CDs full of ’em. Heh. He’s pretty cool actually. So all the CDs are alphabetized and I put in the L, figuring that any good man has some Led
Home Shopping Network Direct
My office at Home Shopping Network Direct used to be occupied by the person in charge of deciding what got on the air. There are a hunka buncha file folders next to my computer. The things that didn’t make it. When my mind wanders … when I’m thinking of non-computer-related stuff (which is once every