9 out of 10 monkeys believe they are not behind glass

There are a few things that I have learned when it comes to Information Technology.

1. Do your homework on new tech, but don’t let it bog you down
2. Research the shit out of new tech if it has 80% plausibility
3. Plausibility implies that the tech improves the process, supports the business plan, and addresses a weakness
4. If the tech does not fulfill all of those criteria, it is not worth talking about, “what-ifs” are a waste of time
5. Don’t hesitate on tech purchases once the homework is done
6. Management does not know best, regardless of their own belief that they do
7. If the criteria are satisfied and ROI is feasible, management should not argue
8. People require finesse, but good tech should not
9. Critical thinking and tech troubleshooting are one and the same
10. If you suck at general troubleshooting, then yes, you do suck at logic, and yes, I will not value your opinion.
11. Learning is a collaborative process, and yes, I will laboriously step you through the logic until you fucking get it
12. It may seem to be a waste of time, but if it improves your skills, then shut the fuck up
13. Continuous learning does in fact include degree programs, certs are not all that
14. Certs are as valuable as a golden dollar… shiny at first, but not worth that much in the real world
15. Someone who rests on laurels can do so in the street
16. All tech jobs are mostly the same… it is the individual that makes it work, not necessarily the experience (although it helps)
17. Give me a people person, and I will give you a hundred reasons why they won’t make a good techie
18. Give me a good techie, and I will give you a hundred reasons why they won’t make a good manager
19. A good manager is a person that learns that there is a fine line between the two worth walking
20. Documentation is 80% of the job
21. Yeah that may suck, but it is the only way it will work well in the long run

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No seriously. I had doubts. Michael Bay’s normal crap really is tedious junk.

But his “style” works here. I don’t know how, I don’t know what stars aligned, but it was way better than it could have been. It could have been a big steaming pile.

Don’t get me wrong, it had a few weak points. But still….

ROCK!

What is exactly is a person that doesn’t fit in any political party lines? A moderate? Maybe its just me, but I for one have not heard of a Moderate Party. Maybe I have my head under a rock. Perhaps.

I asked my wife the other night where she thought I was party-wise. (Mind you, this is after talking about Michael Moore’s latest entertainumentary, SiCKO (there are two sides to every story, this movie only has one, but still entertaining as hell)).

“Oh that’s easy,” she replied, “your a liberal.”

“That’s not true! Take it back!” I said, crying and slobbering, pointing my finger at my wife, the meaniehead.

“Socialist? Communist?”

That is when I stopped talking to her. I am definitely not a commie.

Instead I tried to explain my positions to her, and before I knew it, I was in crazy town. Population: me.

So here is what I came up with, and the party it best fits (based on past campaigns):

• Reduction of government: Libertarian
• Medical System review (Socialized or subsidized): Democrat
• Tax reform: Republican
• Return to Constitution and Bill of Rights (the great social reboot): Who the fuck knows? Libertarian, perhaps Anarchist?
• Freedom of Technology (you buy it, its yours): No one, except the bloggers
• Freedom of Content (you buy it, it’s yours): No one but the bloggers
• Copyright reform: Again, probably just the bloggers

At this point, something dawned on me. Something significant. There is not a party that best fits the internet generation.

I mean, like, at all. There is the vast number of techies that are currently in the democrat party, and a smaller, but still respectable, number in the republican party, and a bunch off by themselves.

But ask any one of them if they feel represented properly, and I bet more than 90% of them would say no. Because right now, there is a different generation in office, representing a bygone age, trying their damnedest to understand this glossy touch screen world, and not quite getting it.

So money rules and the Lobbyists win. Right?

Time for a reboot.