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I was born at the perfect time to pursue a career in full-stack software development. I grew up programming 8-bit computers, then learned Unix in college. I entered the workforce at the emergence of Windows for Workgroups and Linux, and I'll be retiring right about the time the AI's make me redundant. Also, the year Social Security goes broke.
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Quotes
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Months and months of planning by lots and lots of middle management can save literally hours of programming.
Me -
Give a man a program, and you'll frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him for a lifetime.
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I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
@xxclusionary, on Twitter -
I've put all of my skill points into arguing with blinking lights.
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But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a new piece of Apple gear, to lust after it, hath committed purchase of it already in his heart.
Me -
Don't say you're easy on me; you're about as easy as a nuclear war.
Duran Duran, Is There Something I Should Know -
I sold the Renoir and the TV set; don't wanna be around when this gets out.
Duran Duran, The Reflex
Category Archives: Personal
Arguing with a Narcissist
Our HOA president has repeatedly harassed us about parking on the street in front of our own house. I need to summarize how we got here, because there’s a definite pattern. First, she told me that I couldn’t park on … Continue reading
Hmmmm… Pizza
I’m just going to say it: I miss getting a slice of Garcia’s pizza after a night of drinking in West Lafayette when I was going to Purdue. If they were still there, I’d drive up to taste it again. … Continue reading
Careless Memories
By Duran Duran, 1981 So soon just after you’ve goneMy senses sharpenBut it always takes so damn longBefore I feel how much my eyes have darkened Fear hangs in a plane of gun smokeDrifting in our roomSo easy to disturb, … Continue reading
Pain and Treatments
My health “journey” continues. I paid $500 for a genetic test that — of course — insurance doesn’t cover. I finally got the first half of the results. I failed. Turns out my body is deficient at basically everything related … Continue reading
Pain is Your Body’s Way…
Chronic pain is your body’s way of telling you that you’re a horrible person, and that God hates you.
An Extra 5 Weeks of Pain
Jumping into the middle of the story, I tried cortisone injections to help with my chronic pain, but they only seem to have made things worse. A friend at church gave me a whole new approach to try, but I … Continue reading
44 Years Later
The nostalgia is strong with this. I loved being able to make forms with the glyphs on the Vic-20 and Commodore 64. These keycaps have been “out of print” for a long time, but Signature Plastics is now making them … Continue reading
Anthem Sucks, Health Insurance Will Get Socialized, Water is Wet
Once again, Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield has denied me a prescription. It’s like the 4th time in the past couple of years. I spend $10,000/year on all the insurance I can get, while my company pays the other $20K of … Continue reading
SA Retro Keycaps, Ordered
After literally about 10 years of lusting after these, I finally pulled the trigger. I don’t know when they’ll get made and arrive, but I feel that they will have been worth the wait. But… ouch.
The Joy of Coding
I’m writing a program to read a large JSON file to insert tens of thousands of rows of data into a graph DB using PySpark, but the development loop still evokes the same joy and magic as when I was … Continue reading