NAS
My 8TB Western Digital NAS arrived and got the name Fatty. But it writes at only ~15MB/sec, which has me wondering whether drive capacity is now growing faster than transfer speed, meaning I could never actually fill the thing.
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Precedence Madness
Why does == have higher precedence than &? It took me forever to figure out why my masked comparison wasn't producing the expected result, until I forced the parentheses myself.
Stairway to Nowhere
I used to lug serious weight up dozens of flights of stairs for fitness, or torture, or something. The gym's stair-stepper promised that same enduring burn. It delivers nothing. You barely push yourself up at all. It's pointless.
Shoulder to Shoulder
My former employer may finally have to pay the price. The first thing I noticed in the article's photo of the CEO in their new offices: there's no space. The developers are sitting shoulder to shoulder. Maybe that's just me.
Yosemite Valley Free Climbs
I first saw this book of Yosemite Valley free climbs while loitering in a ranger station after Liberty Ridge. It brings to mind being a few thousand feet off the deck with arms fatiguing, and no place to sit down and rest. Crazy.
The Economy of Hair Cuts
My new barbershop costs twice what my old Manhattan one did and peddles no porn, but the straight razor, hot lather and steamed towel are worth every penny. Now I'm wondering if cutting my hair more often would actually save on anti-chlorine shampoo.
No More Chinese Food
13:00: ordered kung pao chicken. The hours that followed involved a giant rock in my stomach, the floor, and a great deal of throwing up. I need to start stocking epicac.
iPad Fail
My iPad's 3G worked beautifully in Seattle, then went dead the instant we landed in Atlanta. The fix passed me through AT&T, Apple, a Genius Bar and the least inspired mall-cart employee ever. Not terribly painful, but a lot of people to talk to.
Scrum Sucks: Standups
Scrum is a development process, and right there it has already screwed up without having done anything. Starting with standups, which rest on three failed assumptions about how much I care what you're working on. Stop stopping work to talk about work and just WORK.
Drunken Monkeys
When this project's done, I'm writing an essay called Drunken Monkeys: a diatribe against formalized project management and feature estimation. First I have to find that paper I read forever ago about the fallacy of the perfect process design.