From Wikipedia, Grok "is a verb that connotes knowledge greater than that which can be sensed by an outside observer. It is an understanding beyond empathy and intimacy. In grokking, one experiences the literal capabilities and frame of reference of the subject."
I grok Blokus. (Okay, not really. But I wish I did...)
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
Friday, February 02, 2007
Countdown to July 21, 2007
Anyone who's a Harry Potter fan probably already knows this date, but for those of you that don't, that is the day the seventh and final book in the series is expected to be released! Woo-hoo!
Thursday, February 01, 2007
What's up with Blogger?
Or rather, What's DOWN with Blogger?
If you're actually reading this post, blogger has somehow managed to come back online. If you are seeing the screen below, then it doesn't matter because you can't read this anyway! (I bet somehow, in some way, the preceding actually made sense to you, huh? Admit it.)
If you're actually reading this post, blogger has somehow managed to come back online. If you are seeing the screen below, then it doesn't matter because you can't read this anyway! (I bet somehow, in some way, the preceding actually made sense to you, huh? Admit it.)
Monday, January 29, 2007
The iPhone Shuffle
If you know anything about Apple, the iPod, and the iPhone, you will find the iPhone Shuffle pretty dang funny!
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Quote of the Day
As a leader and manager, I think this is now my favorite quote...
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Monday, January 22, 2007
Life imitates "Art", yet again
A little while ago, I wrote a post about a big chunk of ice shelf breaking off, just like in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. (By the way, have you noticed all the weird weather that's been happening this winter all over the world? Maybe it's not totally like the movie, but still, you have to wonder...)
Now, we have something right out of the movie The Italian Job. (The best part of this movie are the Mini Coopers! Oh, yeah!) One of the characters in the movie is a computer hacker who claims he can control the Los Angeles traffic control system. Well, now we have two traffic engineers who have been accused of hacking into the L.A. traffic control system.
"Curiouser and curiouser," a friend of mine would say...
Now, we have something right out of the movie The Italian Job. (The best part of this movie are the Mini Coopers! Oh, yeah!) One of the characters in the movie is a computer hacker who claims he can control the Los Angeles traffic control system. Well, now we have two traffic engineers who have been accused of hacking into the L.A. traffic control system.
"Curiouser and curiouser," a friend of mine would say...
Saturday, January 20, 2007
The end of an era?
The other day I uninstalled my Visual Studio 2003 environment. So, you say? And just what the heck is VS2003?
Well, for the past twenty-some-odd years, I've been a software developer by trade (I graduated college when I was six and started working right after that, by the way). VS2003 is a development environment. It allows us programmers to write the applications you use every day on your computer.
Even when I became the "manager" of a software development team, I programmed. I thought I would always write code.
Then last year, I became the senior manager of our little group of software products (developed and supported by about 25 people). Since then, I've been so busy managing people, technology, and the office, I haven't been able to help out with any of the coding! Since the development environment takes up a number of gigs of hard drive space, and since I haven't used it in over 4 months, I decided to uninstall it.
It was a sad, sad day. Maybe I'll whip out an editor and write some C++ code at home just for old time's sake. Maybe.
Well, for the past twenty-some-odd years, I've been a software developer by trade (I graduated college when I was six and started working right after that, by the way). VS2003 is a development environment. It allows us programmers to write the applications you use every day on your computer.
Even when I became the "manager" of a software development team, I programmed. I thought I would always write code.
Then last year, I became the senior manager of our little group of software products (developed and supported by about 25 people). Since then, I've been so busy managing people, technology, and the office, I haven't been able to help out with any of the coding! Since the development environment takes up a number of gigs of hard drive space, and since I haven't used it in over 4 months, I decided to uninstall it.
It was a sad, sad day. Maybe I'll whip out an editor and write some C++ code at home just for old time's sake. Maybe.
Monday, January 15, 2007
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