Things I’m laughing at
At SCALE, Sun’s Barton George interviewed our own Tom ‘spot’ Callaway about his new-ish role as Fedora Engineering Manager. (This has been up a couple days, but I just got on top of my feeds.) The whole interview is great — go download it now, it’s available in Ogg Vorbis …
I am Frields, Attender of Meetings: Look upon my schedule, ye mighty, and despair!
Currently I’m working as a remote employee, until we get our real estate sorted out and move up to New England. It’s a very new experience for me, since I’ve always worked in an office ever since I graduated from college/university in 1991. Working as a remote employee, though, has …
And now, I am officially two-thirds of the way to a family power trio:
How to make a bad presentation, from the front lines of the RHGUD conference: Fill your slide deck with words. The more, the better. The smaller, the better. Avoid negative space. Use color schemes that make your words hard to read, or better yet, invisible in some places. Giving your …
If you want to see the hopped-up, adrenalin-junkie, exploitation-cinema version of a whiny UF journalism student, check out Kurt Russell crying like a little girl at the end of Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino’s contribution to this year’s Grindhouse. Even with 20 or so minutes restored to a film that originally …
A friend for whom I built a computer about six years ago started having trouble with her Windows XP installation. I’ve already narrowed it down to a driver or startup service issue, but it is truly unbelievable not only how hard it is to arrive at that diagnosis (thanks to …
Always a slow blogging day when you make yourself quotable. Said this to a friend at work today: I think learning the English language has been the cause of more of my cynicism and misanthropy than any other pursuit, including my frequent dealings with other people.
Saturday, “sleep in” until the leisurely hour of 8:00 a.m. Be thankful for foam roll-up earplugs that allowed for a glorious 8.5 hours of sleep. Perform morning ablutions. Iron extra shirt for gig, pack third change of clothes for safety. Move equipment into car, including mandatory rockin’ behemoth combo amp. …
This was a fairly amusing personality test that purports to assess geekiness on a scale of autistic behavior. Many geeks are believed to suffer from “Asperger syndrome,” which is a low-level autism that affects people’s behavior in a way that prevents social enrichment. I scored a 19, which was marked, …