Today's work soundtrack so far: Michael Masley (whom I suspect my local spa uses for "relax while you wax" music), Weird Al Yankovic, and a conference call I got to leave an hour early because …
Leonard read a 1986 edition of Programmers at Work from Microsoft Press. The back cover includes ads for other contemporary books, including Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC with Peter Norton on the cover. Like …
I work better when I keep my inbox to fewer than ten messages on a daily basis. Everything that's not a to-do task goes into one big archive folder that I can search or sort …
A couple of years ago, I tried to explain to Eric that he had a bad conversational habit. When Person A brings what she thinks is a new item into the conversation, and Person B …
In the last few months, I've seen and read a few things and had opinions on them. Here we go. I Chose a Parson is a 1956 memoir by Phyllis Stark, an American woman who …
You might have missed the unexpected heat in the next-to-last paragraph. I know I did.
Last night was the last weekly Slightly Known People show at Rififi in the Village. They performed some of their best skits, other sketch comedians and groups did bits, and we all sang together at …
It turns out we're hiring for two levels of project manager, information architect, visual design lead and visual designer, design technologist, tech lead, software engineer, and visual design intern to round it out.
After a very long conference call: "I've lost some acuity. I'm not the same person you hired....That experience was like the opposite of meditation." "Crazy Bread. So 'crazy' means 'has cheese in it'?..." "Emotionally Disturbed …
I am eating a lunch of kale, seaweed, tofu, and brown rice. Somehow it is both huge and not very filling.
