Chuck Norris vs Will It Blend
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Yet another collection of random links and rantings of a greying unix geek with a photography bent. Pass the Guinness and Grecian Formula.
Amazing what crawls out of the woodwork during elections. True or not, it is an interesting example of the best and worst of USA election years.
A picture captured pre-DSLR. Cinder lazing around in the sun, too comfy to do much more than simply contemplate playing with her tennis ball.
I know it really isn’t quite this bad, but for whatever reason it seems that no matter where I work I get last moment “OMG teh sky is fallin” requests, and it seems like there is always a stinky dung fire that needs me to piss on it to put it out.
Job descriptions tend to describe jobs with the above situation “interrupt driven”.
I call it “systemic failure due to lack of process, planning, communication”
It also isn’t uncommon for companies to fill my position with two people once I do decide to move on.
Now, am I a sucker who gets into these roles on purpose, or do I just take on more and more and make the role that big, or am I simply that good compared to the rest of the people.
Yeah, lets keep that ego in check.
I think it’s more likely the old saw about doing the impossible with the inadequate for the ungrateful . . .
Yes, I am a pessimist. I’d rather be pleasantly surprised when something goes right vs an optimist that is constantly dissapointed by reality. :-\
grumble grumble grumble. Drinking more coffee to piss on yet another fire.
Pure genius.
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