As you can see, I was a tiny baby forty-seven years ago. These images were taken 21 days after my birth, when my weight was back up to a healthy level. When I was nineteen my mother told me the story of my birth, and the events that followed. The day I was circumcised I apparently didn’t [...]
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How To Ruin Your ‘Talent’ Agency Using Email
Posted in Uncategorized, life on Apr 30th, 2008
Recently I have been dealing with a particularly egregious form of spam - technical recruiter emails. One company in particular, Talentberg, stands out for its lack of professionalism and ignorance. They absolutely refuse to prune their mailing list, even when repeated requests are made. And they attempt to justify their actions through an intimidating, if false, [...]
Polymorphism: Music is Like Programming
Posted in life on Apr 27th, 2008
In his seminal book, Object-Oriented Technology: A Manager’s Guide, the author, David A. Tayor, describes polymorphism as
Hiding alternative procedures behind a common interface.
The word, polymorphism, is a Greek term meaning “many forms.” A common example of this in the programming world is a routine that calculates state sales tax. The calling process is unaware of [...]
The Last Slice
Posted in life on Apr 24th, 2008
Many years ago, Pizza Hut had a series of television commercials featuring famous people talking about the whole pizza experience. Rita Moreno did one, as did Herbie Hancock. Herbie’s was great. He talked about how was to get a pizza and share it. ”Sure! Have a slice.” That part that has stayed with me until [...]
Comment Wars
Posted in life, nerdliness on Apr 21st, 2008
Zanshin.net is just a speck of lint under a finger nail on the long arm of the Internet. As a weblog it gets few visitors, and even fewer comments. While the domain has existed for over 11 years now, the site has been formatted as a blog only since December 1999. I have no accurate, [...]
This weekend was the first truly mild weather we’ve had this year, and Sibylle was determined to get the plants back outside for the season. Saturday morning we started by moving the hibiscus, the geranium, and the fig tree back outside. We then spent some time preparing the flower beds along the south side of [...]
Consulting versus Employment
Posted in Uncategorized, life on Apr 18th, 2008
There are any number of differences between working as a consultant and working as an employee. And there are some similarities. Today I ran across an unexpected similarity. The company I work for now, as an employee, has undergone significant growth in the past couple of years and they are going through all the growing [...]
Cell Phone Freedom Day
Posted in life, nerdliness on Apr 15th, 2008
For the first time in several years, I am free of my cell phone contract. When I moved to Kansas in 2004, my cell phone was nearing the end of its two-year obligation. Without realizing the consequences (and without being told about them) I called Cingular and changed my phone number to the new area [...]
Electronic Pay Statement
Posted in Uncategorized, life on Apr 14th, 2008
After thirty-one years of getting paper paychecks or pay stubs, tomorrow will mark the first occasion of my receiving an electronic pay statement. My employer, in an effort to avoid paying the increased mass mailing postage rate, has decided to stop mailing associates, who use direct deposit, pay stubs. Over the course of a year [...]
Eleven Crossings in Three Miles
Posted in life on Apr 12th, 2008
The townhouse where we live is near to a major rail corridor through town. The city newsletter this week informed us of a multi-million dollar project to make improvements to the eleven grade crossings inside the city that will allow them to petition the Federal government for a “quiet zone.” This would mean that the [...]
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