Harry's Ruminations

Nerd factor 5, ENGAGE!

A Long Way from Town Good, soul-clearing rant from Mr. Sheffel responding to a Time article on dependent post-adolescence. I've ruminated on this before, but it bears repeating: There needs to be a middle tier in this country between minimum-wage-earners and the lucky 5% who make $100k or more. We need honest work in trades, factories, farms, and mines for people who aren't cut out to go to college, but who want to contribute to society. :-) Read his rant. It's awesome!

You Have A Type B+ Personality B+ You're a pro at going with the flow You love to kick back and take in everything life has to offer A total joy to be around, people crave your stability. While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity. Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's done You're passionate - just selective about your passions Do You Have a Type A Personality?

Amid a very boring status meeting, my co-worker S, from Ukraine broke out the following when someone said, "It's just that close to being done" "Russian proverb says, 'Your elbow is near, but you can't bite it'." :-) Worth going to that worthless meeting just for that.

Congratulations to Stacey and Charlie Davidson on the birth of their girl, Autumn Makenzie. She was born on January 18th, 8lbs 11oz (!) and 21.5 in long. Graduated with Stacey and Charlie from BHS.

Couple of movies this weekend: Fast Times at Ridgemont High The 70's were over, Reagan was restoring hope, and AIDS hadn't broken on the American consciousness. Ahhh...1982, the year Cameron Crowe's masterpiece, Fast Times at Ridgemont High premiered. Up-and-coming cast members included Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates (before 'Gremlins'), Forest Whitaker, Anthony Edwards as a Stoner (!), and a cameo by Nic Cage. A highly watchable, if inconsequential, piece of fluff, I LOVE THIS MOVIE, if only for the reminder of 1980's style. Garden State It's hard to see Zach Braff as anyone but J.D. from television's "Scrubs" , but he plays against type here as the numb Andrew Largemen in this late-twentysomething lament, which he also wrote and directed. In its 102 minutes, the movie follows bit-part actor Andrew Largemen, an lapsed Jew from New Jersey as he returns home for the first time in 9 years ...

I can't sleep. I've tossed and turned for nearly two hours, but for some reason I just can't quiet my mind enough to fall asleep. Plus I have a headache. Plus, I have to be up in 5 hoursto go to my meaningless meeting so a bunch of Indians can piss and moan because I didn't get to answer their emails last week while I was killing myself to reach an arbitrary deadline set by a lame-duck team lead. I halfway think they should require us all to write blogs about what we're actually doing, what actually works with our software and what doesn't, and what we really thing. There is an INCREDIBLE amount of out-and-out lying that goes on in the corporate world, and the pallative vent of blogging can at least lend some perspective. So, the story about why I'm losing sleep over something so trivial as work: It's been a year-long slog through a design and development of this new software thingamabobber. It's your classic designed-by-committee, ivor...