Who is the best foosball player in the company? This question has followed me through three of my last four employers, ever since I spun my first rod back in 2005.

I’m happy to say that I’ve been able to provide my coworkers with an answer to that eternal question, through FRank, the foosball ranking site I first developed nearly ten years ago. If ( Read more... )

Enough stuff has happened in the past two months that it’s time for another aggregated life update.

Health issues remain inconclusive. After surgery in December, I had another attack of abdominal pain around New Years, which prompted another visit to the GP and a followup CT scan. That detected nothing, so I’m back to eating a regular diet and ( Read more... )

Before I talk about my new gig, a brief word about the old one. I spent nearly three years working for a student loan marketing company called Edvisors. In 2013, a company from Las Vegas bought them out and phased out our Boston headquarters.

The title of this article is a bit of an inside joke. Edvisors had a lot of turnover, and people came to ( Read more... )

One part of my life that I haven’t mentioned here is foosball.

My first exposure to foosball was when I started working at BI in ( Read more... )

Time for a quick general update. Things have been pretty good of late.

On the work front, I’m not at the client site anymore, which is really nice. Still working for that big lingerie retailer, which is mostly okay. The other day I learned what a tanga is. Sadly, not through a hands-on demonstration.

And I’ve changed roles on the project from ( Read more... )

It’s a common belief that women by nature have a more developed sense of empathy than men. Whenever a child cries or someone is treated unfairly, we usually expect a woman to respond in a more sympathetic manner than a man.

As the generalization goes, we think that men are cold, stony, and insensitive. A man simply isn’t capable of putting himself ( Read more... )

This is just going to be a quickie to debrief from today’s first day of work at Optaros.

I think it’s going to be a lot like Sapient’s early days: a lot of ( Read more... )