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Posted in life, nerdliness on Dec 23rd, 2008
In the movie business, continuity refers to the process of making sure that scenes shot out of sequence line up contextually in the finished movie. Â The best example I can think of is in Ocean’s Eleven, where Brad Pitt’s character is talking to Matt Damon’s character while eating a shrimp cocktail. Â In the middle of [...]
Posted in nerdliness, random on Nov 25th, 2008
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend a two-day overview of the capabilities and features of Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS3 product. Â The session was a highly level look at the major features and workflow the software provides. Â My employer is looking at using the tool for interface mock ups and screen design. With that responsibility [...]
Posted in life on Aug 18th, 2008
The recent upheaval in my employment has knocked me off my emotional center; it is hard to think coherently about my upcoming choice.
Sometime this week, or early next I will be presented with one or more opportunities to accept a new position. The choices as they stand today are, in no particular order:
* Software Engineer [...]
Posted in life on Aug 14th, 2008
Throughout my career I have been fascinated with process. Â At a certain level of abstraction my job is nothing but implementing processes, big and small, to achieve some goal. Â After spending twenty-five years examining existing processes to understand them, and designing new automated processes to replace or augment them, I tend to see processes everywhere. [...]
Posted in life on Aug 5th, 2008
On Sunday, Sibylle and I purchased two new Eddie Bauer backpacks to use during our trip to Europe this year. We gave them a “Dry run” yesterday during our trip to Chicago; one that they both passed with flying colors.
One of our concerns was their size when filled. Â All the airlines publish the size limits [...]
When I was a child going to the grocery store and watching the bag boy work was always fascinating to me. Standing at the end of the conveyer belt, he sorted items into different bag. Â Some items were shunted aside for later bags, occasionally an item was repositioned in a new bag. Â They were fast [...]
Posted in life on Jul 1st, 2008
Recently it was reported that Netflix was eliminating the profile feature on their web site. Â Profiles allow you to create sub-queues of movies for family members or others in your household, which are independent from the account holder’s queue. Â You could create a one-movie at a time, G-rated profile for a child, for example.
The public [...]
Posted in life on Feb 23rd, 2008
Today, Sibylle and I traveled to Manhattan KS to participate in and watch the 2008 Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition. Students competed in four age categories by performing concertos accompanied on a second piano by their teacher, who played the piano reduction of the orchestral accompaniment for the various pieces.
The adjudicator has [...]
Once in a while, Sibylle and I will order take out from the nearby steakhouse and eat at home. By ordering out we get to avoid the crush of people waiting 30 to 45″ minutes for a table, and we save some money too. Neither of us needs or wants to eat an [...]
Posted in random on Nov 21st, 2006
Yesterday I set out to pay some bills online. Most of the creditors I have sport payment pages on their web site making it easy to point, click, and pay. One loan, however, proved to be the exception. Several years ago, when purchasing the two Apple computers I own, a line of credit was established [...]