May 31, 2008
Eggciting Times
Earlier this spring, Melissa installed window boxes below my office window and the bedroom window. About a week after planting flowers, she was surprised, while watering the flowers one day, to see a robin's nest under construction amidst the flowers in the window box below my office window. Much has happened since then. Many eggs have appeared and the robins take turns keeping them warm, while keeping a wary eye on the two humans ogling them from mere inches away behind a pane of glass. As you can see, the combination of colorful flowers and bright blue eggs make for a most excellent photo. Credit goes to Melissa for the picture. Credit goes to me. . . because it's my office.
May 29, 2008
Job Retrospective
Start Date: Nov. 5, 2001.
Original Job Title: News Editor, IBM eServer Magazine, iSeries edition. Final job title: News editor, IBM Systems Magazine, CompTIA newsletter managing editor.
Later added: IBM eServer Magazine, pSeries edition, mainframe edition, TotalStorage edition.
IBM Server name changes: iSeries - System i - i5 - Business System
pSeries - System p - p5 - Power Systems - Business System
Mainframe - zSeries - System z - z9 - z10 - Mainframe.
Total number of articles written: A LOT, including 40 - 50 articles and definitions written for CompTIA.
Managing Editor for two years and 17 magazine issues, from 2005 - 2007.
Trade Shows Attended:
April, 2002: COMMON in Nashville.
February, 2003: SHARE in Dallas
March, 2003: COMMON in Indianapolis
September, 2003: COMMON in Orlando
May, 2004: COMMON in San Antonio
March, 2005: COMMON in Chicago
August, 2005: SHARE in Boston
March, 2006: SHARE in Seattle
August, 2006: SHARE in Baltimore
September, 2006: System p show in Las Vegas
Overall, a good job. Here's hoping the next one is, too.
Crossroads
Starting next week Monday, as I embark on a new fork in my writing career path, I think it's fair to say you can expect some sort of impact on my ThunderJournal.
Whether that means less posting, more attempts at anonymity, more guarded and less revealing content. . . well, I really don't know. I have no idea what to expect, to be perfectly honest.
At any rate, I fully intend to keep this ThunderJournal chugging along, for as long as the forces behind mu.nu deign to keep hosting.
But, things will probably change somewhat around here. Just so you know.
May 27, 2008
"Into the Wild" = Glorified Stupidity
Mel and I watched "Into The Wild" last night.
Holy crap did that movie stink like baby Zeus's diaper.
I guess it probably works on some level; like, say, a level wherein you needlessly punish your parents for two years by disappearing without a trace, and then attempting to live in Alaska armed with a woefully inadequate, plastic .22 calibre rifle, and trying to field dress a moose, by yourself, with no prior experience, and all sorts of other anecdotes you'd expect from a self-absorbed, delusional drama-queen who knows just enough about nature and "the wild" to get killed by it.
So, yeah, great movie, in the same kind of way "The Blair Witch Project" was a great movie.
