Okay so there are days I really enjoy being in San Francisco. Today was one of those days. I was taking my break at work and I walk around the block. I put on my jacket (keep this in mind), I put my head phones on and turn on the ipod and head out of the office. I get to the first corner and there... Read More
Okay so I am the grim reaper of my company. I am the one they send when they have bad news. I am the one they send to take back the car, take back the cellphone, and give them their last check. Other people are better at selling. I guess I am just the most diplomatic while under fire. But this means I will be... Read More
And I don't think my life is ever going to be the same. And for anyone who is reading this and has seen this movie. I hold each and everyone of you personally responsible for not letting me know what an amazing movie this is.
And this is how much of a geek I am. I am thinking The... Read More
Got up at 5am, took Bart to a shuttle to the airport, flew to Reno, Nevada. Got picked up by an employee that just got terminated, drove to his place to drop him off. Then I drove to the car to San Francisco. Should have taken 3 hours and change. But with all the construction... Read More
Okay so I was asked by my boss to come into work on the Saturday (just passed) and open the building up and help out for the people who were changing over the computer system. (New Hardware same software). The New hardware has different ports then the new ones.
Points of Interest on my Company's computers:
-CRT Dumb Terminals at every desk.
-Wired with DB25... Read More
Amazingly behind the times. If they'd pay for current stuff, they wouldn't spend so much money paying the people who can't remember how to hook up the old stuff so many hours to get their shit together.
Back in the day (read as: 20 years ago), when I ran that out of date crap, and it was out of date then as well, we had two things to make it all faster:
1> a standardized method to our madness. If they weren't all the way we wanted them, we made ALL of them the same way -- the way we wanted them
2> a tester, a handy tool to make certain that what we got was what we wanted.
That "puppy" of mine is damn near 11 years old. Funny thing is, he doesn't believe he's a dog but my human sibling. He doesn't like to look at himself in the mirror because he doesn't want to come to terms with his obvious differences. haha