After aspartaimee started repeatedly complaining about my Herr Doktor Rotwang userpic, a Rotwang-hating movement geared up within my flist. I've retired him as my default icon; you get to look at ol' Ambrose until I can think of something better ( Read more... )

The core Gameshelf crew had a Season 2 planning meeting last night, and it worked really well. Well enough that I'm not putting scare quotes around "Season 2" any more. (And, uh, those weren't scare quotes, right there. OK.) Director-Joe even said that he felt really good about things as he was putting his coat on, and as friendly as he is he also ( Read more... )

The UPS-clobbered check is officially lost, sez my bank. Redeployment procedures initiated. At least the bank volunteered to reimburse me for any related fees I get stuck with ( Read more... )

The heat is wedged on full-blast due to an oopsie elsewhere in the building, and so I am stuck in a hermetically sealed cube farm filled with nerds who, stimulated by the warmth, blossom into full pungency as they compete for mates. Or something.

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Actually it's like practice for the thon. HA HA BECAUSE SF fans smell bad

Did very little since posting yesterday, other than lie on the couch. In the afternoon dictator555 came over and dropped off some stuff and hung out a little, which was nice ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Friday worked on ITA stuff from home via finally-working VPN, and received a long-sought written spec on this project I am tackling alone. First I need to machine me up some Perl tools, and spent the day sketching out some modules I can design to help me start hacking this company. I shall enjoy this, at least at first. I hope I can keep it up ( Read more... )

Last few days have been a pleasant blur.

Let's start with Friday. Work is going nicely. I haven't reached my target hours-per-week pace but I did better than last week, and I am actually working, making Perl modules that build off of software in the company's Subversion repository. I dropped an email to the person at the company whose name is ( Read more... )

Friday I got all things straightened out with work setup, I think, in terms of both technology and HR. I know how to submit my invoices, and my workstation PC is now equipped with sudo and VPN access. The sandbox environment purrs along happily, waiting for me to do something. And I will, next Wednesday, the first day of what I expect to be many ( Read more... )