Archive for the ‘ Rants ’ Category

You Shall Not Pass

  • October 1st, 2009
  • Posted in Rants

Some little things really drive me nuts. In my biz (techie term… I am hip that way), we use this techie thing called IM (you may have heard of it). It is a preferred method for some as a nice in-between choice of a lackadaisical email which my take hours to get a response to, [ READ MORE ]

I can kill your grass for free

  • September 1st, 2009
  • Posted in Rants

I can destroy your lawn. Look upon my work ye mighty and weep, for I can render any lawn to pure horror. Lovecraftian alien lanscapes are left in my wake, as I cut a swath of pure hellscape before me. And I can do it to your lawn for free! I have spent hundreds [ READ MORE ]

Email signature fail == facepalm

  • April 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Rants

I don’t know why I let it bother me. But a couple things about email and how people use it really annoy me. Deeply and profoundly. I don’t know why it eats me so, but I really wish I could just let the damn pet peeve go. First, stationary. Seriously? Stationary? [ READ MORE ]

Dear you

  • April 14th, 2009
  • Posted in Rants

You know who you are. Yeah you. The one that I spent a shitload of time on planning and working on making a cohesive plan for. The one that ignored my plan and claimed that they are uninformed about said plan. The one that gives me the stiff arm whenever I try to [ READ MORE ]

Food for thought

  • February 18th, 2009
  • Posted in Rants

A new Amazon Kindle 2: $360 A book that I would read (picked at random), Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (published 1969): Paperback, $7.99 Same book, but for the Kindle: $7.19 Difference: 80 cents. Assume, if this price difference was the norm between a physical paper book (printing, distribution, materials) and virtual e-book (no printing, cheap distribution, no materials), [ READ MORE ]

I wonder

  • January 26th, 2009
  • Posted in Rants

Sometimes I wonder what it would take to get a glowing approval rating from my coworkers, my boss, my peers, my clients. I mean, seriously, what would I have to do? What would it take? What kind of person would I have to be to accomplish such a feat? I think no matter [ READ MORE ]

The most difficult part of my job

  • December 23rd, 2008
  • Posted in Rants

Coming to work everyday and dealing with users… no problem. Trying to stay on top of ever-changing business requirements… (kinda) no problem. Learning the latest and greatest technologies for possible implementation… no problem. Managing my boss… um… Problem. He likes to get into technical details. Generally a little too technical. Because in terms of service/cost/provisioning, [ READ MORE ]

Fun with idiotic acronyms

  • December 3rd, 2008
  • Posted in Rants

SPTM: STOP PERPETUATING THE MADNESS. (spit-um?) A chain of emails out of control in your organization? Click reply-to-all and continue the mindless drivel of the email chain! Eventually, the mindless reply-to-all’s slowly work their way up the mgmt food chain, until someone with authority replies to all to tell everyone not to reply-to-all. A Self Perpetuating Idiotic Chain [ READ MORE ]

I am not a jerk

  • August 4th, 2008
  • Posted in Rants

Generally whenever anyone posits such a remark in a conversation, it is usually because they are actually big fat jerks. However, I am not a jerk. I am a type-b, laid back personality, and I usually take things as they come. I have my moments though, and this morning I definitely had one. I was [ READ MORE ]

Life, work, and play

  • March 27th, 2008
  • Posted in Rants

My wife and I have a recurring fight that we cannot seem to meet in the middle on. And it all has to do with how I like to spend my downtime. I like to play online video games. To me, video games are no different than watching TV. If I had [ READ MORE ]

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