Intro

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. – Calvin (& Hobbes)

I sold the Renoir and the TV set, Don’t wanna be around when this gets out. – Duran (Duran)

Introduction
(or, Corpus Collosum)

Some time around 2006, I was completely fed up with my job, and started looking around for something else. I got a hot lead on what seemed to be a good match. I talked to their HR rep on the phone. She seemed very interested. And then, all of the sudden, the lead got cold. She wouldn’t return calls or emails for several days. I finally got a terse email stating something to the effect of “we’re just not interested.” Given how well it had been going, I was left to wonder what it might have meant. I realized that I had written some things here that I was pretty sure would have offended the HR rep personally, and I’m about the easiest guy in the world to Google, so I settled on the conclusion that they had searched for me online and hadn’t liked what they had seen. Since I was still looking around, I didn’t want this to happen again, so I immediately deleted all my content except the front page, and edited this space to say something really generic about what happened. I’m still not being completely transparent about the incident, but that’s the way it’s going to be on this site now.

Now I have had a new job for about a year, at the time of this writing. The new people in my life have gotten to know me, and therefore have at least some context about what I may say here. While I have taken down the material I suspect got me in trouble before, I still have potentially controversial things posted up here. It is my hope that those around me will understand that I’m not as harsh as I can sometimes come across in this format. (Even when I go back and read what I’ve written here, I sometimes cringe and think, wow, that’s harsh.) But I’m not the same person I was back when I wrote a lot of these things. Some of this content is 10 or 12 years old! I’m going through and rewriting what’s here, but at my own, leisurely pace, and this will take time.

So, as before, this is where I get to talk about the things I want to talk about, but now I’ll be “speaking” in more measured tones. While it’s certainly true that I’m not as critical as I was before, I guess I’ve also learned how to use some tiny measure of tact along the way. I thought about limiting myself to only what I would say to a total stranger, but that may be too restrictive to be interesting. I’ll be targeting my comments here for the imaginary person who might only have known me for a week or two. I guess I’ll see how this works out for me…