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Do we need mirrors

Posted on June 30, 2005 | Leave a comment

Really? Do we? The gym just installed mirrors in the corners. So now from my corner of the locker room I can accidentally see mr. I don’t need a towel to walk to the shower’s ass, on the other side of the locker room. Thanks LA Fitness

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Porn Face

Posted on June 20, 2005 | 2 Comments

“Feel it!”

“ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH… Yeeeaaaahhhhh”

“One more! One Moooooorrreee!!! You can do it!!!!”

If you saw the look on Mikes face you might think he was giving birth, or perhaps staring in a porn flick. In fact, he wasn’t. He was pressing 235 pounds. A new high for Mike.

“AAARRRRRHHHHHH”

Mike isn’t a pirate either. It’s a common occurance at gyms across the country f or men; regardless of the weight, to make almost pornstar like faces and grunt, groan, exhale loudly, and in Mike’s case, sound like a pirate, when lifting weights.

This phenominon is limited to free weights however. Those men that use the weight stack style machines seem to be immune to the affects that cause this condition.

Scientists aren’t sure if it’s the metal in the handles and bars of the free weights or perhaps the rubber covering of the weights themselves, but they’re convinced of one thing, there is a link to be found.

This phenominon can be found at any hour, but seems to spike in the afternoons around 4-6 pm and then again around 8-9pm. It’s unclear what causes these spikes, but it’s commonly believed that the concentration of attractive women and horny, lonely men, accelerates the chemical process that leads to

Porn Face

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It takes 10 years?!?!?

Posted on June 13, 2005 | 3 Comments

Towards the end of the day today AP got into a conversation with TB and TO. The best part was when AP says, getting streamlined with the kinds of processes we’re trying to put into place takes 10 years or so. “We’re doing pretty good after only one.”

What a load of crap. It’s unlikely AP has ever worked anywhere for that long, or even worked anywhere that’s spent 10 years implementing a Change Management and source code control process. SInce a place that takes that long is unlikely to make it to 10 years.

I’ll be the first to agree that change takes time and that for us there’s a lot of culture changes that need to take place, but 10 years. What a load of crap.

Of course this comes from the guy with a contractor mentality to his work. Make it hard for anyone else to know what I’m doing to ensure I am impossible (perceived) to replace. He seems to thwart the process at every turn, doing CMs job for them, still doing release notes, not forcing them to call the developer on support that weekend, not making them call the teams who need to fix the problem, essentially hand holding the CM team on a daily basis.

Well he can keep doing it since I have plenty of life I’d like to lead on the weekends, he can sacrifice his. I wonder if he thinks he’s still hourly?

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10 bucks for a fucked up duck

Posted on June 9, 2005 | Leave a comment

Had two interesting meetings today. Met with a friend of mine for lunch. Talked about his company and the things he’s doing there. Was really hoping he was gonna say, “we need web and system architects like white people need rhythm.” and actually he did say something like that, unfortunately he’s fighting the good fight, largely alone at the moment. The culture over there is very, “my department, my empire.” no one wants a group that is above that that doesn’t care about what group wants to hord what dominion on a technology. Sad since they are still small and growing. Hopefully he’s able to change opinions over there.

THe upside was we talked about work stuff, so he paid for lunch to expense it :) Free ninety nine can’t beat that.

Had to rush back to lunch to meet with one of our head guys. He was running late as expected so I was able to sit and read a few emails (mine not shis, duh). This was a follow up meeting to talk about where I am heading in the company. Which is still no where. On the plus side he’s very open to getting me some more exposure to other technologies, helping me round out my toolbox and all that. Unfortunately patience is a virtue I often lack. I’ve got to work on that I know.

The meeting went mostly well. I feel better knowing that there is at least a plan, to have a plan. Some direction, even vague one is better than none. I’m keeping my feelers out, just the same. Signed up for some leadership classes. UCI has a software architecture certificate program, might try to get in on that. Really trying to bide my time. Company is paying for Java training so that’s nice. Flex training is coming soon.

I’m still hoping Scotty can make something happen in his neck of the woods. Their being smaller will let me grow more I think, but we’ll see.

In the mean time…

Does anyone else think ClearCase and Clearquest aren’t the greatest thing since sliced bread that everyone makes them out to be? My god those two tools suck!

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