Archive for the 'Idle Musings' Category

Local water

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Do you ever think to yourself something along the lines of … “I am amazed by what I’m seeing, and I will be back tomorrow to see it again and to photograph it” only to learn that tomorrow it will be gone? So about a block away from my house, there’s a wooded area that [...]

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 … [...]