Rants Tagged with “Personal”
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It's been a good time with Magenic these last eleven months. I have thoroughly enjoyed the client's I have dealt with and really got a kick out of the community of consultants, both in Atlanta and nationally.
But I have been itching to go back to being independent. Starting June 1st, I am putting my slate back out and becoming an independent again. I look forward to being able to do more user group talks, training sessions and hopefully more writing in the coming months.
Keep a lookout here for my comings and going in and around the development community.
I am coming kind of late to the dance on this one. I needed to get some equipment for a new MCE box I am building, so I headed to Fry's this afternoon. While it was exactly what I expected; a store 4x the size of any of their competitors. I was glad to see a very helpful group of employees (not the case with CompUSA!).
Sometimes its the smallest things that impress me though. The size of their receipt is perfect. When I leave BestBuy/CompUSA/Circuit City, I am amazed at the sheer size of the receipts. I think we could reduce the cost of paper in this country by 2c/ream if we just got those three stores to make reasonable sized receipts. I just don't get it.
Aren't you supposed to get your MCSD before your MVP? Well, I finally finished all the tests for the MCSD.NET and I am happy to have that behind me.
After spending most of the last two days with food poisoning, my tip of the day is to avoid Room Temperature Sushi...
Sure, I'd hoped to be quoted someday about Longhorn, Avalon, WinFS or something interesting...not this...not even sure why I posted anything...
As anyone who's read my book or articles can usually determine, I am a fan of the Atlanta Braves. I am very excited about yesterday's news of the signing of Tim Hudson to a long term deal. This is the best signing since Greg Maddux in '92. Why? Look at these stats:
Career Record: 92/39 (.702)
Career ERA: 3.30
Career K's/9: 6.52
Career Record when his team scores five or more runs: 72W/2L (.973)
This is an excellent list. I only currently do one of them, but have done a number of them. I think they missed the
SCA though!
To whomever designed the kidney, I have a bone to pick with you. I've spent two of the past four nights in the Hospital dealing with kidney stones. Nasty thing is that the pain medication that usually dulls it well enough has done nothing with these new nasty sized pearls. Now that they know what they are made up (mostly calcium), I have to change the whole way I eat, or more appropriately, drink. I've been told to give up all milk products, colas and tea. I guess I have to drink water...
Well, enough of my griping.
So it's Christmas day and I received a RoboSapien from my brother. It takes me back to my first 'Programmable' toy back in the eighties. Much more limited than the RoboSapien, the Big Trak was a tank that you could specify it to move forward, back, turn left and right, and fire a fake laser:
In constrast, the RoboSapien has a much larger bank of operations, but still a pretty limited amount of task space. What I do like about the RoboSapien is the sound and touch sensors. This allows you to determine what to do during collision with objects or even let you create a robot watch dog. I can't wait to finally get home to Atlanta to see how the cats like it ;)
Elf on the TV, apple pies in the oven, ham on the table and I am blogging. I must be nuts. Of course I am at my mother's house and anything to get me out from in the middle of my vaguely crazy family. Its wonderful to be home, but I am constantly reminded of why I left my hometown to begin with.
I hope everyone out there is having a happy holidays, whether it is Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice or just December.
