Archive for 2014

Waitress at Pizz’a Chicago: “You drove 300 miles for a pizza?” It’s really good pizza.

It’s all about the delivery. And I am not talking groceries.

You are not Steve Jobs and therefore you don’t get to treat me like crap.

Thinking: It is not just for other people.

“How would you describe yourself?” Doggedly persistent.

The joke is… “What’s your greatest weakness?” And “Honesty and candour.” are the reply. Which leads the natural punchline which you can Google. But the joke is really, that’s not what companies are hiring for. Like it or not, rarely are you hired for honesty and candour. You’re hired based on your ability to “lie.”…

Apparently I walked in to a surprise tech interview today for a job I didn’t realise I was applying for.

When you pitch an opportunity, determine the opportunity cost to the person you are pitching. If the cost is too high, it’s not an opportunity.

Holy cow! $45 for a pound of coffee? Did it come out of a rare breed of jungle monkey cat?

I *heart* Expensify! Awesomest app for managing travel receipts. EVAR!!

Me: “I’d like an espresso” Barista: “Grande?” Me: “Um! Sure!” 23oz of espresso! I could live on this for a week. Okay, maybe not a week, but a day or two at least. Couple of hours, tops. Could I get another one of these, to go?

Dozing on the couch for 20 minutes in the afternoon is why I like working at home. I get so productive after a nice 20 minute nap.

Hacking away listening to Deadmau5. Which means I have shut out the world. And shut down the noise in my brain. When I write code, when I want to be in flow, I listen to either really fast Electronic Dance Music or Techno or similar stylings, or wonderfully organic Classical from the musical masters of…

Hacking on Drupal. Having fun. Building a prototype website for an idea. Which is to say something that may go nowhere or something that may go and make quite a bit of money. But the trick is, don’t jinx it with any kind of expectation just yet. Let’s see where the road of discovery will…

Which donut made you fat?

Client: “And we want it to work on all versions of the iPad.” Me: “Who the hell still has an iPad 1, I mean, seriously?”

Google Wallet and my app are just not playing nice together. WTF!?! And Google is being no help.

Internet Explorer is the Shcrodinger’s cat of web browsers. As long as I don’t look at the website in IE, it works fine.

Do 1,000 different things badly. Eventually you’ll be really good at something. Do the same 1,000 things badly? We call that minimum wage work.

Wooh! Client finally paid! I can go spend… oh wait. Yeah, taxes.