"So, hm. Looks like we have to do this again, and we fired everything off a week ago."

"Yeah, I hear ya." *rummages through a barrel*

"Eyewitness? There was a camera. Following training? He wasn't. Violent Crime? Not even close. Grand Jury? Still has some staying power, but we just used it."

"Wait-- I got one. At the bottom. Looks like ( Read more... )

I'm in Tokyo for the next week or so. Having flown in yesterday evening, the jetlag beast has triumphed in ways that I've not experienced in years, so here's a couple of random observations from way too early in the morning:

Streams: In Tokyo Central Station, people moved in streams. Being a bit taller than the average bear around here, I could ( Read more... )

Some thoughts on the MA Ballot questions:

( 1. NO, 2. YES, 3. YES, 4. YES. Click for the how and why. This got long. )

Since Friday afternoon is typically when the Nerf wars break out around the office, people got to talking about different shooting styles ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I used my most hard-earned powers for good, instead of just for profit.

It was a good day.

Something I wrote a while ago, which seems relevant again: A lesson my dad didn't teach me.

RIP, radioactiverich.

I've been flying quite a bit for business, lately. By the end of this month, I'll have 15,000 butt-in-seat miles from the beginning of 2014. It's a truism that one conference room looks very like another*, but every now and then I get free time and get to explore a bit ( Read more... )

So, business school (successfully) taught me the lesson that leadership is a service-oriented discipline. That is, you provide leadership by serving the people you lead. I've seen this play out at my current workplace and it makes sense to me ( Read more... )

J and I have had a lot of stress over our condo over the past 9 years, i.e. as long as we've owned it. It's a 125 year old 2-family house that got condo-converted, we were first-time homeowners, our inspector was just okay, etc ( Read more... )

Of all of the Arisia conventions I've attended, there have been two or three where I got home on Sunday, sat on the couch, and thought "Did I go to Arisia, or did I just take an expensive cab ride around the block?" That is, there were a couple of times when my experience at the con was so frenetic and fragmented that Arisia wasn't an event.... it ( Read more... )