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Time has come.
Given the changes in the Terms of Service for LJ, it's time to pack up.
This will take time, but it will happen.
Same name over at Dreamwidth. See you over there! -
Axel Analysis
So, Spotify has a "Songs To Test Headphones With" playlist. I like headphones, and I like songs that push the performance of audio gear, so I start sifting through it ( Read more... ) -
Connecting a few dots
I'm sensing a pattern ( Read more... ) -
We Did it For Science.
How The Party Crew Known As Ziggurat Labs taught me about change, truly appreciating what was, and not regretting the ephemerality of the moment:
Things like ZigLabs exist as a static point in spacetime where the confluence of numerous peoples' lives end up in a specific place, to come together, and to eventually pass each other and disperse. We ( Read more... ) -
Modus Ponens, point five oh.
So, given the following statements:- "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
- "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
- "Don't shoot anything you wouldn't want to kill."
I turn the crank and get "Society would be better off if we had more people who were willing to kill."
Am I missing something, here? -
Click 'send.'
New house.
Everything is finally
(mostly)
plugged in.
Finally have the photo post-production
(and gaming)
machine set up
(also gaming)
Fine. Gaming, too.
(cool.)
Done?
(yeah.)
Okay. So.
I realize that I need a picture of myself for something
(Keyn-a-hora! You clean up so well!)and I was kind of short on pictures of me ( Read more... ) -
Will the real Rocky Balboa please stand up?
Meta: A comment that deserves a post ( Read more... ) -
Running the List
When I was in professional services, one of the things that I noticed I did was I ran a very specific list of diagnostics at the beginning of a customer meeting.- Who is the most important person in the room?
- How technical is this group of people?
- What kind of mood are they in?
- Do they appear to be in a hurry, or are they settling in for the long haul ( Read more... )
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Two places.
I live in one place, although most of my co-workers would be hard-pressed to tell you where that is ( Read more... ) -
A business observation and a technical rant
Observation:
In business and in life, it's useful to have a meta process going in your head about the level of the conversation. Are you discussing things at the same layer of abstraction as everyone around you, and if you're not, is there a reason?
This is how you get the geek vox clamantis complex: "This won't work. The salesperson is ( Read more... )