Archive for the ‘My Take’ Category
A tale of profound drunkenness
I got most of my drinking done before I ever left college. Now I might have a drink occasionally when I’m gaming and otherwise do designated driver and chuckle with wry amusement at the antics of the drunkards. I recently played in an ironman hockey tournament about 45 minutes from home. After the first night’s game [...]
Overkill perhaps
Recently I interviewed someone for a QA position. This is rarely if ever fun — what do you ask potential QA people? — and I was likely even more predisposed to a negative opinion right off the bat due to the resume. This was a person with 5 years of experience. The length of this [...]
Blingo wins and fails in the same breath
I recently talked about how I had won cash money with Blingo. One of my buddies took me up on the offer to become a Blingo friend at that point and he wrote me today telling me how he had won a movie ticket meaning that I also won one. Yeehaw, win-win! Then I went to [...]
Gizmodo - hopped up juveniles
Gizmodo loves shiny gadgets. Gizmodo went to the Consumer Electronics Show as one would expect. What one wouldn’t necessarily expect is that Gizmodo is staffed by sugar-rushed 12-year-old mouth breathing imbeciles. In a heart-felt, placating tone they admit and ever-so-sincerely apologize for the fact that they ran around the show like halfwits and used a [...]
I hate cash
This will be short as I’m currently being ridden as only a ten cent whore can know, but I had to mention that Cat and I celebrated our tenth anniversary this past week in Napa Valley. We ate our anniversary meal at Cyrus. We, as they sometimes say, went all out. I ate several things [...]
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Yesterday I had a quick lunch at a Chick-Fil-A restaurant, reading my book and just relaxing and taking a break. A gentleman near me wasn’t relaxing. He was interviewing. It was the most depressing attack on dignity I think I’d ever heard. I imagine among fast food joints there are worse jobs. I worked at McDonalds [...]
If you can’t get them in with content. . .
My site statistics are, frankly, insane. Of the 5.8 million hits I’ve received since May of last year, a staggering 16% of visitors arrive to see my Xbox 360 FAQ. Coming in a distant second is the Photography category because people want to download one of my high res wallpapers. Then there’s a smattering of [...]
Microsoft emulates cartoons perfectly
Do you recall that cartoon with Chester, the little, bouncy, yappy dog that flitted between the feet of big bulldog Spike? “Hey Spike! Hey Spike! What are you gonna do, Spike?” He’s annoying, constantly in poor Spike’s face. Spike can tell Chester to shut up and Chester might shut up for about a minute then [...]
