Quote of the Day [11.07.20]
“I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!”
Donald Trump, Loser
“I own a lot of Euro Disney.”
I had plenty of blog posts in me this past week. Some ‘Link of the Day,’ maybe a normal post about something on the internet, but Blogger has been bloggered for a bit. I sent in bug reports/site feedbacks using the normal Blogger feedback form. I wrote with sarcasm. I wonder who reads those forms and if I will get a response. Hopefully, the profanity in the message will not keep them from seeing that it’s a real request and that they should fix the issue.
Obligatory Whiny Post About My Current Job Situation
Once more with feeling.
Why again am I still working at IniTech? Nothing I do is "Good for the company."
These posts always occur after every Apple Keynote speech. I need to find a way to minimize the whining. Just do it.
Mac Development
I need to revisit my 5 year plan. Get the fuck out of IniTech and go all Delicious Mac development.But no.I'm a pussy.That's why I work at IniTech.(I think I wrote this post 5 years ago) FML
Monday Morning Musings [part the 3rd]
Let's take a look at the drive to work to celebrate the first day of school for many of the students in MD. Last week, if I had left my house at 7:30 AM, I would've been treated to a congestion free commute to work lasting 40 minutes for a 30 mile drive. Today, I get the school traffic that will complicate the morning and afternoon commutes. It will add another 10 to 15 minutes to the drive, and all of that within the first 10 miles of the drive.Why do I accept it? Because I chose where I live.Should I have moved closer to work? Should I find a new job closer to home?Having house closer to work would make my quality of life better. Less taxing on the cars. Less money spent on gas. Less aggravation caused by the traffic. More time to sleep. More time to eat breakfast. More money in the pocket.How is your daily commute, and would you change it for the better or worse?
UX Experts Needed
I currently am mired in self-loathing because of my job. I fucking hate it so much that I wish weekends were six days long. I fucking hate it so much that I don't want to get out of bed. I fucking hate it so much that I can't do any work at all so I spend my days surfing the web. (Shh. Don't tell my managers. Ha ha, fuck 'em.)Anyway check out the latest Windows Mobile 7 screen shots. http://www.winsupersite.com/mobile/wp7_rc_shots.aspNow, my current assignment has me working in Java (Damn you), writing interface code using Swing (Damn you), and being my own UX expert. If I know one thing, I am not a UX expert. The one thing about this Windows Mobile 7 screenshot: it looks as shoddy as the work I am doing now. I suck. And yet, so do the Windows Mobile 7 do too. WTF!
That’s it?
So I started getting my stuff in order in my house. Things are still scattered all over my house, but I spent most of the morning cataloging my books using Delicious Monster’s Library. I’ve got lots and lots and lots of books almost 400, and I’ve yet to go into my office with the bookshelves. Tons of the books are manga. I’m gonna have to get rid of quite a few, because I can’t bear to re-read them or I didn’t like in the first place.
I decided to make use of the local used bookstore in town, Ukazoo. I know they buy books back, so I pack up my eight volumes of Black God and the volume of Biomega to test drive the book buy back. I’m no longer fascinated with Black God, and Biomega is not my cup of tea.
Into a bag they go, and I am off to Ukazoo. I drop them off at the buy back desk and wander around the store giving them a chance to decide how much they will pay me for used books.
Ukazoo’s manga section is somewhat sparse and features many older titles. I would like to grab a few, but that would defeat my purpose for coming here — to offload my junk without gaining any new junk.
I get back to the buy back desk. $4.98. Couldn’t they just make it a nice round $5?
I ask if they get any manga. She says they do, but they usually go to the warehouse to be sold online!!
So, I paid about $100 for 9 volumes of manga. They’ll buy it back for $5. They’ll then sell the manga for $4 a piece. I don’t know whether to feel outraged or relief.
On the one hand, my money is gone and I am not even coming close to recouping the cost. The store is gonna make good scratch off of me. On the other hand, my house is a smidge less cluttered. On the third hand, they only gave me $4.98!
Is the cost of having a less cluttered house worth $4.98? I think it may be, but I wish it was worth more. I feel foolish to accept such pittance, but I really want to get rid of this clutter. I did think about donating books to the public library for free and yet, I am bothered by this offer.
Should I be?
160 Games Left
It's too early to criticize the Orioles. There are 160 games left. There's plenty of time to make it alright. Two games is not enough to estimate the quality of the team. Yet still, the first two losses of the season are an extension of the ways they lost last year: bullpen collapsing and not hitting with runners in scoring positions.The expectations are high for the fans. We're told the team is on the right path. The team is better than it was last year with the addition of free agents and with the maturation of our young stars. The team will win more games.Expectations can be dashed with reality.Will the free agents add hits and runs while maintaining a solid defense? Will our young players fulfill the potential that baseball scouts say they have? Will our pitching solidify into quality starters and solid bullpen work? Will the team score more runs and give up less runs than last year? Will they make all games competitive?The two games so far make the case for the negative. Our hopes were high. Now we wonder if we were deluding ourselves.But let's see. We still have 160 left.
Earn your pay
The slug line for this link is, “Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week.”For this let me quote John McClane, “Welcome to the party, pal.”WTF?! is up with the whining here. Can’t manage a five day a week schedule. Poor babies. You know you could get another job. Of course this article only talks about the first month. Little is said about the other weeks of the year that they take off. They’re playing us for suckers.