Archive for the 'Idle Musings' Category

At the crisis point again

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

So I’ve come once again to the question: what do I want to do with my life? Seriously, I don’t know. I’m considering my current job and my level of satisfaction with it, my other options in my career field, and room for personal growth. I feel like being a sysadmin at this point is [...]

What ever happened to the block party?

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

So, I was just thinking to myself… In the neighborhood I grew up in, I can remember a couple times where the people on a given street would get most of the residents of the street together and have a big block party. There’d be like, big collective cookouts, lots of socializing, lots of kids [...]

An interesting interview question

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

So, I interviewed for a job last week. Some nice people, and someone who I don’t think was enthusiastic about me writing about things like upcoming interviews. Sort of ambivalent on that … But one of the interview questions that one of the unix guys I talked to asked me really struck me, and I [...]

the past, the future, and options circumscribed to a very few possibilities…

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

This semester has been interesting, both because it’s been uncharacteristically fulfilling and because there’s this interesting confluence of events working together that really seem to be sharply delineating the end of a part of my life and the beginning of some other part. Both prongs of that warrant some exploration. ==Fulfilling== For the last … [...]

the sphere and the schedule

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

so, I’m drawing near one of those big life-changing forks in the road. Last one I hit was probably the first one I hit: the end of high school, going to college, picking a major. It’s depressing to think that I’m in a mindset not particularly dissimilar to the one I was in eight years [...]