Blerp
Big reshuffling of office space in progress at ITA this week. I've been upgraded to a nicer cube on the 7th floor, though sadly am surrounded by strangers. On the third hand, it's pretty quiet here, as I'm no longer sitting next to company-knowledge gurus and their attendant conversation vortices.
Something's messed up with my network drop; they did a good job transferring random crap I had on my desk, but I think someone pocketed my internets. I have asked Dan to put in a requisition for some new ones. If I don't get any by 4 or so I'm goin home. Yes, I am billing for this.
At least I'm getting some self-improvement in, reading Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices in the meantime. daerr bought a couple copies for the office last year and I've always meant to get into it. I'm about halfway through now, and am finding it brilliant.
I think that Conway may be my favorite technical author. It was another of his books taught me object-oriented programming many years ago. His presentations have a reputation for being especially wacky, but his writing sublimates his sense of humor into subtlety, making the text uniformly informative and engaging. Contrast this with the lame, chunky-style humor perpetrated by way too many tech book authors who think that they're the next Larry Wall. Including, sometimes, Larry Wall. (Also including myself; I'm a little embarrassed now by the excesses of "humor" in Perl & XML).
I may go to an MIT entrepreneur workshop thing with Jared tonight. I haven't been to one since before Origins, and all the adventures that Volity Games has had in the meantime would give me a real change in perspective. I dunno though.
Something's messed up with my network drop; they did a good job transferring random crap I had on my desk, but I think someone pocketed my internets. I have asked Dan to put in a requisition for some new ones. If I don't get any by 4 or so I'm goin home. Yes, I am billing for this.
At least I'm getting some self-improvement in, reading Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices in the meantime. daerr bought a couple copies for the office last year and I've always meant to get into it. I'm about halfway through now, and am finding it brilliant.
I think that Conway may be my favorite technical author. It was another of his books taught me object-oriented programming many years ago. His presentations have a reputation for being especially wacky, but his writing sublimates his sense of humor into subtlety, making the text uniformly informative and engaging. Contrast this with the lame, chunky-style humor perpetrated by way too many tech book authors who think that they're the next Larry Wall. Including, sometimes, Larry Wall. (Also including myself; I'm a little embarrassed now by the excesses of "humor" in Perl & XML).
I may go to an MIT entrepreneur workshop thing with Jared tonight. I haven't been to one since before Origins, and all the adventures that Volity Games has had in the meantime would give me a real change in perspective. I dunno though.