Notes

Walked in to work this morning. Sat at my computer and it would not let me log in to the company web site. I played with it. Something to do with security certificates or some other web contraption getting fussy. I’m freaking out and trying to get hold of support when the little voice of my inner IT guy says. “Hey, try restarting the browser and then the computer.” Step one fixed it. Thanks inner IT guy. All those years of dealing with other’s issues pays off.

I would like to have a beer with Drew.

Home schooling. I respect any family that can pull this off. The reason the establishment wants to stop homeschooling is it doesn’t fit the narrative. The establishment wants people to be scared for their children in schools because this separates taxpayers from their money. However, this thing called homeschooling also solves the problem expending far fewer resources.

ISIS, ISL, IS. I prefer Collective Uniformless Nationless Terrorist State.

Meanwhile, on the Iranian front.

A lot of companies believe that one developer is as good as another. They are interchangeable and getting rid of an old one and replacing with a brand new one is a cost savings. This just isn't true. Developers bring more than ten fingers to a project. Some bring good and some bring bad. Management’s job is to have meetings and count beans. It seems sometimes that we are herded from one project to another. Developers do not turn wrenches. We define. We design. We conjure and create. We teach a computer and each other. We bring in to being that which had not been.

Pirate walks in to a bar with a steering wheel in his pants. Bartender says “Hey man, you know you have a steering wheel in your pants, right?” Pirate says “Arrrr, it’s driving me nuts.”

Lunch conversation today consisted of football for the most part.

• Some player was very promising but sucks now.
• Some team has really let themselves go.
• Some team had a chance and blew it.
• Some player looks good this year.
• Our company recruits at many football centric universities.
• What some of the folks look for in resumes
• Engineering round the world vs the U. S. (more of the same really)
• Not every kid has an engineer just waiting to to construct an escape mechanism.
• US complains that kids are not getting in to technical fields yet does stupid shit like banning commercial drones.

Not mentioned (as far as I was paying attention)

• Gay man tried out and didn’t make it to the professional level.