Archive for 2014

People who make consuming a lot of TV a large part of their lives also make achieving nothing of any worth or merit a large part of their lives too.

Soldering up some circuit boards for my Nixie tube project. Making sure all the wires look neat and pretty. And sweating bullets because of the high voltage these little beasts require.

When you’re having a shit day you don’t get to ask “why me?” without asking the same question on your great days too.

I went to two networking meet ups run by the same guy. The first time I wore a badge that read just my name. I had a blast, so many interesting people, so many fantastic conversations. The second time I wore a badge that read “Mentor” and all I heard throughout the evening were bad…

“Hey I know we only just connected on LinkedIn but could I use your loft in SF for a few weeks while I’m in town looking for a job?” Hahahaha! No.

I do so enjoy being offered “strategic copyrighting [sic] services” by an on-line marketer/copywriter incapable of stringing together a coherent, cogent or even cognitively convincing sentence. If I were to use the services proffered to me I would sound not just like the blithering imbecile you have come to know and understand, but also illiterate…

I fondly recall the day I called a hiring manager a complete twit to their face in an interview, getting up and promptly leaving. I was interviewing for a game development job, one of the last formal interviews I ever did, when I was told “We have to pay you less because you aren’t from…

There are exceptions to every rule. But they are just that, exceptions. Never, ever, ever hire someone because of an “exception to a rule.”

Your liberty is dependent upon also making sure those people you don’t particularly like having their liberty too.

Just got back from the dentist. Another root canal. Heavy sigh. My wife wants me to have a British accent and American teeth Instead of the other way around.

People wonder why I do not engage with Stackoverflow very much. Why would I do that? Building a strong profile on Stackoverflow is good for impressing an employer and landing yourself a job – why would I be interested in that?

There is no greater pleasure to be found some days than to have all the seams on your bath towels line up perfectly.

Working on my MAME cabinet. Trying to figure out how I want to run the wiring loom so it looks pretty. Part of taking pride in your work is worrying as much about the parts that nobody will see as you do about the parts that will be seen.

Wasting a bunch of time playing Pitfall 3D on the PSX emulator on my phone. If you had tried to tell me almost 20 years ago that this would have been possible I would have chuckled. I’ve lived through the computing revolution and the been a part of the industry that made huge strides in…

So many people muddle up “bad sales pitch” and “business networking” I find it astounding that they manage to stay in business. Or ever get started.

Wondering if I should upgrade my workstation. New graphics card, new motherboard, faster memory. Its like individual LEGO bricks that cost several hundred dollars each. But real LEGO bricks never become obsolete.  

It’s hard to manipulate someone when they have as much or more information than you do.

“I’m the ideas guy! You write it and sell it! We’ll both profit!” /facepalm

Today I believe I am especially retarded. Made a cappuccino at breakfast for each of the cats.

Huh! Weird! Coffeescript throws an error on a new line immediately after a left square bracket [ I can see that this will be several hours of head scratching and wasted time.