Notes:

2012-08-14

Who do you work for? You work for whomever pays your check, right? Who pays their check? Is it the consumer? Is it the bank that supplies the consumer with credit? Who do you work for?

I sweat like a fiend this morning. The walk in was in the dark, but the humidity was nuts. By the time I got to the bus stop, I was dripping sweat off my head like a fountain. It was so bad that a mosquito got stuck on the back of my neck and I got her. It was awesome climbing on the bus. It was the Houston deep freeze, just like it should be.

Some say there is no privacy any more. I say that privacy has been so devalued that no one wants it any more. It means so little to many people that loosing it costs them nothing. Or, perhaps they let it go for nothing so the cost of fearing its loss will not drain them.

Do you know who Opha Mae Johnson is? You should.

Still using gvim for most of my text editing needs. The more I use it the less I hate it. That is the sign of long term acceptance isn't it?

I listened to a podcast all about the seventies show "Logan's Run". That movie made me think as a kid. It makes me think as an adult. I'm 43. I'm going to start saying hello and good morning by saying "Be useful". Logan gets fucked by a computer. He is not in charge of the computer. It is in charge of him. He does not know how to tell the computer to get fucked. No one does. The computer has a set of rules and orders to enforce them. The computer doesn't care if any human lives or dies. The computer doesn't care if humans suffer. The computer has an off switch somewhere. Find it. Work it. Live!

I took my first 20 minute look at Rails today. It took me 3 hours. Ever started a big project and wished the same first 200 or so steps that are pretty close the same thing every time were already done? Ever tried to copy an existing project and at some point thought it would have been easier to start a new project rather than hunt down every frigging place you have to change something to fit the new project? Well, Rails is what you were looking for if your project is web app.

Have you watched Star Trek, the original series? Half those shows have some kind of god or daemon with the power to wrestle a starship frozen in the orbit of a planet or to toss stars about like jacks. Could you imagine writing those mission reports. No wonder Kerk was a nutter.