Creating custom software, and perhaps client services in general, are more like agriculture than manufacturing. We aren't stamping out identical units and trying to increase "efficiency" by speeding up the process; we can't, because we …
Highlights of my recent round trip between NYC and Washington, D.C.: Sitting next to a fresh-from-college geekish Indian-American woman, chatting pleasantly for hours, reassuring her that she isn't alone in finding most Indian-American males unattractive, …
O'Porter Most clients sounded more stressed and less grammatical than this guy. "Why did YouTube take down a video without soundtrack music? I didn't break any copyrights, did I?" "You came to the right effing …
A few models I've happened upon recently: No Big Deal: I visited Nandini. Her friend, a landscape architect, is helping her do up her apartment. We talked over breakfast. Susan's dad has always been a …
You know how when you play a lot of Tetris, brick walls look like problems to solve? And DDR makes techno songs sound like a cue to box step? Enter scifi obsession. The quest for …
Tonight I heard from DC-area sysadmin types that the area has plentiful IT jobs (which I'm willing to believe) and that Python and Ruby are fads on their way out (uh, no). Also I learned …
Tonight I see a staged reading at Woolly Mammoth costarring a friend of mine. I wonder what "Pay What You Can" brings in these days. My life is better in some ways when I visit …
Evidently tonight I could see the Nerdcore Rising documentary on the big screen and see whether Adi, John, Adam and I made it into the final cut. But instead I may go celebrate Unix time …
I'm back in New York City, nursing a scratchy throat and catching up on Thoughtcrime Experiments submissions to keep my average response time down. The long-dormant Vista machine that PCF lent me is installing update …
