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A Preface, of sorts
All responses to this preface post are screened. If you've got anything to ask that you'd rather not have public, or a message to send, post it here. I almost never do memes and friends-locked posts, don't take it personally. You're not missing out on cool posts by not being on my friends-filter. I hate the LJ term "friend", it's just another ( Read more... ) -
Social Media meanderings
This is sort of in response to some pokes in private, and the increasing assumption that everyone has githubs, blogs (or wants to), and is on multiple social media sites and their work life is more or less fully blended with non-work-life ... Beware, rambling unstructured thoughts ahead ( Read more... ) -
Law and an Instafilk
Just finished reading the 43-page document that ends with this decision:
"Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics, Defendants, as Summy Co.'s purported successors-in-interest, do not own a valid copyright in the Happy Birthday lyrics.And while plowing through those 43 pages, my brain committed filk ( Read more... ) -
*Bask*
*Bask* in the warm glow of finding out via a third party that the client's staff have been singing my praises to their management ( Read more... ) -
No yearly stuff here
I don't really like to do year-end summary posts. The years all blur together and zoom by too fast. The only resolution I've made lately has been to not end up on Youtube, and other than brief appearances in the background of others' videos that I had no idea were being made at the time, I've been able to keep that resolution ( Read more... ) -
Cleaning out the text folder ...
I just cleaned out 1,000+ IMs. They pile up fast between hubby and I when one of us is one the road. For the next few months, it's me gone while he keeps the home warm ( Read more... ) -
Supportive management
After a brutal meeting, I IM'd my supervisor: "Back now. We need to talk. I AM expensing vodka this week. You WILL approve it ( Read more... ) -
update and apparently I'm not allowed to rent my apt
Wow, it's been a while since I last updated ( Read more... ) -
Lost many phone numbers
My cell phone was lost/stolen last month while I was on a business trip. Loss was discovered within 5 minutes and before leaving a 50' perimeter, but it was never found, never turned in, and whoever picked it up did not respond to calls or texts so it has been nuked and the number transferred to an interim phone ( Read more... ) -
I'd love to get my hands on the data
Mostly a rant, but it got me thinking about data, and making sure fruit is properly boxed before analysis so we're not comparing apples to watermelons and grapes to cranberries ... not without adjustments, that is ( Read more... )