February 2012
Fun with the Big New Car Seat
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Stuff like forcing women to get ultrasounds and listen to the heartbeat is just...
– The Feminist Pessimist’s Fun Blog: Why does everything have to be about abortion?
The King of Androgyny
Emerson: Who's that lady in all the pictures?
Me: That's Elvis Presley, sweetheart.
January 2012
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Lose just one night’s sleep and your cognitive capacity is roughly the...
– The Truth About Sleep & Productivity | Inc.com
(hat tip to doublejack)
Best Practice: Voluntary Overtime →
The problem with pressing for more overtime than developers want to work is that when motivation begins to drop, it doesn’t just affect the 10 or 20 overtime hours. It affects the 10 or 20 overtime hours plus the 40 regular hours. When you press for overtime, you lose productivity in motivation faster than you gain it in overtime.
Keeping this link where I can get to it.
OKC Police Find Couple Passed Out In Car With... →
According to court documents, police found Joshua Wesley Kahn and Mystene Ann Scott passed out in their car on January 18 at a convenience store located at 2845 N.W. 10th Street. Police say the car was still running and in drive. The car’s tires were resting on the curb, keeping it from moving forward, where a cage of propane tanks was located.
In the back seat of the car, an...
Upon the playing of the Back to Work podcast...
Emerson: DADDY!
Me: yes?
Emerson: I — I like music better.
Interview completed. Let the obsessive second...
First Job Interview In 13 Years Tomorrow Morning
First technical interview EVER1.
It’s for a lateral move within my company, but stil…
I’m pumped like the night before my ACT.
I absolutely love having my knowledge tested, because then I know what to learn next.
In which I’m the interviewee. I’ve conducted a few. ↩
Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation. →
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.
I was the victim of a mockbuster and I enjoyed it.
The movie I viewed on Netflix Instant was not 11-11-11, the horror movie from the director of several high numbered Saw sequels, but rather 11/11/11, the low-budget straight to video mockbuster released two days earlier.
So now I have another potentially entertainingly bad movie to check out when I can.
Sure sign that it’s some flavor of bad?
Releasing a horror movie the week...
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In theory, knowledge of the Imposter Syndrome...
In practice, not so much.
Attention Bad Movie Fans with Netflix Instant
Check out 11/11/11.
I’m pretty sure the trailer had a bigger budget and more talent attached.
And now I am thankful that he stopped talking to...
entropyas:
“Did you mean Amanda Hastings, Amanda Shankle-Knowlton, or John Moltz?”
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notactuallyme replied to your post: I’d do that N things thing, but my kids read this blog I assisted with hemorrhoid surgery on Jim Inhofe when he was mayor of Tulsa. He talked on the phone the entire time. And that was WAY before cell phones.
How did they know when to stop?
Hey-oooh!