Category Archive: Observations

Feb 03

Plaxico Buress Predicts the Future

When Plaxico Buress predicted a NY Giants 23-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, everyone scoffed; most notably Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady. “We’re only going to score 17?” was Brady’s question. Well tonight, in the 4th quarter, Buress gave Brady his answer, “No. We’re going to score 17, and you’re only …

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Jan 20

When Second Life Becomes Your First Life

I don’t play Second Life, but someone close to me does. I have friends who have played World of Warcraft (WoW) and for the old school folks MUDs. I even have friends who participated in the original CyberPunk, but I have never heard of compulsive and overall consuming waste of time that Second Life appears …

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Jan 17

Design Skills vs. Programming Skills

Martin Fowler posted a great article today on his bliki commenting on how in most cases a person with good design skills is more valuable to a team than a person with good programming platform skills. I read this article and even as a programmer, I completely agree with him. In my experience, finding someone …

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Sep 19

Iran, Iraq, Israel, Syria, North Korea, and a little O.J.

I’m no expert on foreign affairs, but someone’s asleep at the global wheel here. You couldn’t go anywhere today without hearing something about one of these topics today. Everyone’s all hush hush about why Israel attacked Syria a few weeks ago, and now every thinktank is putting their own spin on it just to whore …

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Feb 12

Assholes That Don't Use Parking Spaces

While sitting in a Subway restaurant enjoying my lunch with a couple of co-workers, we witnessed a woman pull up in her SUV and park in the loading zone. She turned on her four-way hazard lights, got out of the vehicle and came into the restaurant to order a sandwich. We sat there wondering why …

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