Slog
Caffeine intake so far: one of those Monster coffee-like energy drinks and two cups of coffee. Still dragging ass. It’s going to take a skilled pilot to bring this one home safely.
The hotness
My previous manager, now executive director, is a bit of a Michigan fan. Michigan, whose football program is searching for a head coach, has been rumored to be courting Jim Harbaugh with numbers something like $48 million over eight years. Anyway, the numbers, they are not important. The important thing is that said executive director…
More annoying than jingle cats
Random Christmas jingles played randomly: http://joshmillard.com/endlessjingling/ Oh so annoying. Kind of like Christmas.
Sadness
Theory vs. practice
Dubious victory
Is there really a sense of accomplishment in clearing the “immediate needs” support list just so I have time tomorrow to sit through two classes on secure coding and write my annual self-evaluation? Definitely unrelated: have I recently grumbled about how much I hate the make-work foo-fah that is the annual self-evaluation? In terms of…
Of a certain mood
[Color][Day of the Week] marketing? GFY
An Intro to V–
Here’s a bit o’ geek humor, guaranteed to counter the cooling effects of the December air on your cockles: http://stilldrinking.org/the-fizzbuzz-from-outer-space-explained
Another sign of kids needing to get off my lawn post-haste
The goa mix [1] is 20 years old. I was more ska/jazz/CMJ at the time but this mix was my gateway into the world of electronica. It was a seed that didn’t really sprout for another decade but that fact left me in a place where I could follow the trajectory backward and also launch…
Support site hell
Go to Microsoft’s support page regarding VisualStudio 2013 Update 3 Look for a link to download VisualStudio 2013 Update 3 In lieu of finding said link, find a link “Download the latest Visual Studio 2013 update package now” Click that link Find yourself looking at the download page for VisualStudio 2013 Update 4 Pray to…