Computer Genius Blog :: aka “TheGarage”

In the recent post Beware of Crocks… I ended the bit with “If only we could talk to the crocodiles.”

I had started a new paragraph with that line and somehow got distracted and never finished it. I didn’t notice until after JD left a comment. I left it like it was because I thought it was funny. I wish I would have put “If only we could talk to the crocodiles…” with an elipses instead of a period. Maybe someone would have finished it for me. Sounds like a contest…

But seriously. Think about it. If we could talk to the crocodiles, and that girl could have talked to that crocodile that was going to eat her, would this tragedy have happened? Would that crocodile have mauled and killed that girl if she could have said, “Oh, Mr Crocodile, don’t eat me. I’m too young, and sweet, and delicious to eat!”

And Mr Crocodile says to her in his most sympathetic voice, “I’m sorry, honey, but I am old and starving and can’t hunt so I need to eat you to survive.”

Then the girl could say, “Oh hell, why didn’t you just say so. I got a bunch of spoiled chickens back at the cabin. I was going to have to throw them out anyway, I’ll just go get them for you straightaway. These assholes up here on the bank are my friends. Wanna beer while I get back?”

Mr. Crocodile smiles his big ole crocodile smile, “Ahhh, could you? That’d be great.”

“No problem, Mr. Crock. Then, tomorrow I’ll take you down to the ranger’s station and get you signed up on Medicaid Part B. After that we can see about getting those teeth fixed.”

And what about these damn fire ants? If only we could talk to the ants…

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I accidently let a couple of my domains expire, including EI, and was in e-payment hell for two days. Geez Louise. After the domain service finally got onto the problem, it was fixed with no more dialog. But it sure would have been nice if the electroinc payment would have worked the first time and I would not have had to dick around with it for two days.

C’est la vie. My screw up. In the meantime, my mail and stuff may be kluged for the near future since my host deletes all DNS records immediately upon expiration. Fuckers. That’s not the kind of 4-1-1 I keep handy in the brain. I have to add a couple of A records and MX records for three domains, including my mail domain, which didn’t expire. Weird.

Anyway…

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Does your wire installation look like this…

…or does it look more like the rig in the very last photo on this page about the Best Dressed Systems contest. If you’re in to that kind of thing, check it out. Their winners had some great racks .

If I feel like it I’ll clean my bench off a little a take a shot of my wiring rack. It’s pretty small-scale, but I’d say it is somewhere in between the best and worst. I’ve seen many examples of the worst, though.

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A little over a month ago I said:

You never know, oil could fall a dollar a day for the next three weeks. Funny thing is that BP will still have to fix their damn rotten pipeline without the big price spike.

So it’s only been fifty cents a day.

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JD’s post this morning got a legitimate, out loud chuckle.

I need to think of some funny stuff to write about because the political stuff is so tired. Seems I have nothing left to say about it that I have not already said, ad infinitum. Watching these politicians on television play their games makes me have hateful thoughts. The same old bullshit over and over. I think we all know where we stand. We need to crap or get off the pot. Or, in this case, it is going to be crap or else get crapped on.

But I can’t think of nothing funny right now.

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A FIELD GUIDE TO HIRING PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS - Joel Spolsky lays it out.

Unfortunately, you can advertise in all the right places, have a fantastic internship program, and interview all you want, but if the great programmers don’t want to work for you, they ain’t gonna come work for you. So this section will serve as a kind of field guide to [recruiting]developers: what they’re looking for, what they like and dislike in a workplace, and what it’s going to take to be a top choice for top developers.

I can confirm that after having worked on two side-by-side 20″ inch plasma displays at my previous job, the little 15″ LCD I now labor over seems like torture.

But what the heck, I’m just a contractor so the advice doesn’t really apply to me anyway. Even this tech tip from Computer Geeks TechTips leaves programmers off the list of those who can most benefit from the increasingly more economical configuration, citing the typical user, gamers, engineers, and business people like stock brokers and such. But not the lowly computer programmer who makes all that stuff possible.

Is that typical? Would a real computer geek leave himself off the list of those who would most benefit from a cool display ugrade. The CEO probably works in a cube over there Computer Geeks.

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