There’s more to being a programmer than just programming: a lot of the job involves “managing up”. I do it with Boss Ross, Boss Ross does it with his Boss Noss,
and Boss Ross’ Boss Noss does it with the Illuminati/Mason/Alien
Conspiratorial Triumvirate, often with a suitable sacrificial goat and
a PowerPoint [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Oct
31
2005
Suit-Friendly Articles on "The Farm"
Oct
28
2005
"I need to dress up like an idiot and get beerlarious"
This Sunday, a special “Scare-e-oke” Hallowe’en edition of Kickass Karaoke will take place at the Rivoli.
Host Carson T. Foster has requested that women dress like tramps and men dress like women. In other words, business as usual.
The fun starts at 9:00 p.m., and Wendy and I plan to be there.
[...]
Oct
28
2005
“Totally Dismal and Excellent” / Anarchie
Yesterday’s posting of the goth-themed Archie comic got BoingBoing-ed, leading to a spike in visits to this blog. Welcome, folks!
A number of posts across the blogosphere that linked to it made a couple of astute observations:
This may be the first time in a long time that the goth subculture hasn’t been portrayed as [...]
Oct
28
2005
Web Site Integrator Postion in Toronto
Here’s the job that my friend Jay Goldman is offering. Tell ‘em you heard about it from the “Accordion Guy” blog.
Job Code: DEV02
Location: Toronto
Type: Full Time
Description
Radiant Core has an immediate opening for a full-time Integrator. You
will be responsible for implementing client sites based on Architecture
[...]
Oct
28
2005
My Housemate Went to Poland and all I Got Was This "Osama and Friends" Nesting Doll Set
Last weekend, my friend and former housemate Paul gave me a very eastern European gift — a set of matreshka (Russian nesting dolls) that he picked up during his summer visit to Poland and the Czech Republic. This was an unusual set — rather than the whey-faced women and girls typically depicted on such dolls, [...]
Oct
27
2005
Archie Goes Goth
It’s a little-known fact that your subculture is over the minute it becomes a plot point in an Archie Comic. In She’s Goth to Have It [436K JPEG file], Betty gets tired of being ignored by her friends and tries a new look to get their attention:
The last panel will shock you!
Oct
27
2005
R.I.P., Porkins
Star Trek may have led to the term “red shirts”, but the expendable characters in Star Wars were more memorable. Most memorable of them all was Porkins (a.k.a. “Red Six”), played by William Hootkins, who passed away last weekend. Hootkins also played the crooked police lieutentant Echkardt in Tim Burton’s Batman and Frobisher in the [...]
Oct
26
2005
What Would Jesus Bet?
Next poker game with AKMA, I’m bringing Faith Chips!
A ten-pack is going for ten bucks right now! Click the image to learn more about Faith Chips.
Oct
26
2005
The Case of the 500-Mile Email
[Cross-posted to The Farm.]
The story’s a couple of years old, but it’s been making the rounds
lately, so I thought I’d point to it: The Case of the 500-Mile Email.
Here’s the introduction:
I was working in a job running the
campus email system some years ago when I got a [...]
Oct
26
2005
“Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.”
Found: a photo of some clever public washroom hand dryer graffiti…
Mmm…treyf-a-licious!
Oct
26
2005
Slouching Towards the Geeky Mean
Yesterday, Boss Ross sent me a stack of presentations from Evans Data
Corporation’s 2005 Developer Relations Conference. Seeing as my job is
developer relations, I feel a little silly for having been unaware of
its existence and have adjusted my radar accordingly.
I went through the presentations — mostly outlines of [...]
Oct
26
2005
Buzzword Abuse is Cheap Entertainment
(Alternate title: In which our hero shows that he’s been reading too many articles about these new-style web applications)
The scene: the Tucows offices, early afternoon.
Co-worker: Hey, Joey! How’s married life treating you?
Me [making finger quotes, a.k.a. "sarcasm tongs"]: “Married life?” What is this, the twentieth century? It’s [...]
Oct
26
2005
“Something Positive” on Anne Rice
The webcomic Something Positive has its own take on Anne Rice’s change of subject matter (which I wrote about in this entry). Here’s a sample:
Click on the image to see the whole comic.
Oct
25
2005
Cameo Appearance in “Open Sources 2.0″
My friend and former housemate Paul Baranowski is a developer with Campware, an organization whose purpose is to “develop, distribute, support and implement useful tools for independent news media in emerging democracies.” As such, he keeps up with the literature on Open Source, such as O’Reilly’s book-in-progress, Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.
The book’s introduction [...]
