Reality Me

Category: Daily Life

Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.

  • Software Development Life Cycle

    All software people need this displayed in their offices. That would be project managers, programmers, qa people, etc. Software Development Life Cycle

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

    A New Day!

    Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

    This Morning

    Up not quite as early as I’d hoped but up none-the-less. Last night I began designing a product I’d like to design, build and sell but will need a little angel investor to be friendly to be to make it happen. I’m going to try to write it up as best I can. It may even be patentable.

    I’m in the programming mindset right now. I could even be focused enough to do some mundane tasks like business cards and marketing. However, I promised myself I would be at HomeDepot right now so I’m off. Going to spend the next several hours getting those plants in the ground (provided my wife is up to tell me where they go). Finish the game!

  • Had pizza for dinner and considered a run to HomeD…

    Had pizza for dinner and considered a run to HomeDepot for planting supplies. They open at 7am. I’ll try to be there right when they open, get the plants in the ground and then get to work.

    Watched “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” with the entire family cuddled up on the couch. The movie was everything I expected it to be…which would be a somewhat waste of talent.

  • Photoshop?

    Is it photoshopped? Or is Kerry’s daughter assuming he’s in the White House already and trying to keep up with the naughty Bush girls? (Kerry’s daughter stouting a see through dress, no bra, but she is wearing panties. Note: this appears in The Sun a British tabloid.)

  • 3 Legged Race

    Running naked through the streets of San Francisco will be OK and not OK, according to the people in charge of the Bay to Breakers race.

    Last year, there were more than 200 nude runners.
    she was told by police that it is “not physically possible” to cite nudists in motion.

  • Learn about yourself – but be careful!

    Self knowledge just a click away – Personality tests proliferate on the Web

    For seekers of self-knowledge, there’s a plethora of online personality tests that will help gauge everything from weighty matters like what type of mate or career would be best for you, to more frivolous concerns such as whether your personality is more like that of a Golden Retriever or a Chihuahua.
    the Web site closely guards customer privacy and does not give users’ personal information to third parties.

  • Big Brother – Big Trouble

    Man fights citation for carrying anti-Bush sign

    A southwestern Wisconsin man is fighting a civil citation for bringing a sign that read “F U G W” with him as he watched President Bush pass through Platteville last week.
    Police then handcuffed him and took him to the police station, where he was photographed, fingerprinted, cited $243 for disorderly conduct and released.

  • Nanocomputers!

    Compute with Atoms!

  • Semi-permanent Literature

    Story is tattoo much

    This author has written a story and will have 2095 volunteers each tattoo one word of the story on any part of their body of their choosing. The completed work will never be revealed to the public. Only the participants will know the story. The author wonders if a caste system will evolve around the “the”s, “a”s and “and”s.

    “There is something wonderfully melancholic about a piece of writing that’s living flesh and finally dies and is grieved over.

    It is a revolution in literature.
    Note: This article appears in The Sun a British Tabloid. Confirm your sources.

  • Lawn Monster Ate My Mower

    Ran over a stump trying to bush hog the hill with the lawn mower. Having already discovered a door hinge, large sticks, a 4×4, and several other foreign objects the blade sighed heavily and bent at a 90 degree angle.

    The other lawn mower still won’t run. I think the fuel line is clogged.

    Switched to Round Up. Those hand pumps bite.

  • Tech Supporting

    Still trying to address my wife’s email problem.

  • Productivity

    Had a meeting with a client to discuss an ecommerce system. Thrilling conversation. Left tired but jazzed.

  • Productivity

    Updated resume sent to a recruiter that I thought had given up on me.

  • Indignant Cat

    My cat rolled over in her sleep and fell off the monitor onto the keyboard full-sizing Mozilla. Stood their on the keyboard for a second trying to figure out where she was then hopped right back on the monitor. Her antics are enough that I’d consider not getting a flat panel monitor. It’s nice to have the gargoyle helping me code.

  • Productivity

    Dropped in on a recruiter I contacted in Dec and visited in Jan then never heard from again. We discussed that I was still in the system and how the rates in Knoxville for certain skills like DBA work have plummeted. So a dba making $85k 3 years ago might only get $55k today.

    I don’t completely buy that picture but instead of writing them off I encouraged them to market me in different ways and changed my salary expectations.