Hi!
Yeah, I’ve been incredibly busy all week. Maybe that really affected my attention, but I generally do feel okay about some of the things I’ve pushed back on with work.
I do think there’s a hard push to do things in the most stupid, expensive ways possible, but there’s not a ton I can do about that.
I still am tempted to stick with the halve-and-grow-back-as-needed approach to just about everything.
That approach has worked for me in so many instances. But, like, the vendor says you need to buy this really expensive stuff!!1! Noted. It’s not your money. You were hired to make things work effectively, and the vendor “requirements” aren’t your requirements. You have to make the product work, not sell hardware or software.
It’s even more of an issue when one vendor is selling both.
But to do proper work requires doing engineering using tried-and-true practices, scream waterfall scream, but it works. Yeah, I know getting someone important to sign off on your engineering work takes time, but you’re spending other people’s money. In the case of tax money, it’s money that’s been I forcibly taken.
Do the right thing. You have to look at yourself in the mirror.
That admonition leads me into the news section of things. Yes, I’ve been paying attention even if I haven’t said a lot…..
The UHC murder case. Lots of speculation from some really terrible people. Oh, it was justified because he’d been denied care by UHC. This is what you get when you’ve got for-profit insurers denying care. Any reasonable person could understand why he did what he did. Except he wasn’t insured by UHC, had been involved with psychotropic drugs, was from an affluent family, and…. Senator Warren, I will continue to ignore you, still, as best as I can. Maybe some Pow Wow Chow can distract me. The Substacker, formerly of The Old Grey Lady, and Space Cowboy Jeff’s tax write-off, I will refrain from raw-dogging anything to do with you.
Daniel Penny was acquitted. I’d just assume avoid NYC until Alvin Bragg is gone. While I hear things that NYC is better than it was last time I was there, they elected these people, and deserve the consequences.
Looks like I am going to go to the final Shmoocon. Never got a response on the sponsorship tickets, btu I’m pretty sure there is one available for me through a friend. If they ever get back to me on the sponsorship, I’ll stick to my promise….and have probably two tickets to move. But I am going. Room booked. It’s earlyish this year, so it’ll be cold. Given some of the past experiences, that seems absolutely appropriate. 2009 was such an odd experience, but it’s something I’ll remember as long as I live. Or was that 2010? I don’t remember. Pretty good con content, and it snowed. Hard. So hard that the atrium between the budlings collapsed. I helped push a DC cop out of a snow bank. I’ve barely spoken to some people with whom I was formerly close because of things that were said over the then-new Twitter. I really can’t see anything I’d written about it back then. Now thinking more about it, it was probably 2010, because I was definitely having issues that’d lead to my MS diagnosis just a few months later.
Drones. I haven’t been outside to glance at the sky in the past few nights. I’m outside most often early in the morning when I’m going to and from the gym. I haven’t seen anything. Obviously, there’s the information coming out of New Jersey, which coincidentally was where War Of The Worlds was set, Governor Hogan up in MDDR, etc.. I don’t know. Well, they ought to be shot down!!1! Um. By whom? And what about damage that happens on the ground because of the downing? I don’t know. I’m not sure that putting anyone in prison would fix it, assuming they’re competent to stand trial. But like the Chinese balloon that was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean after it’d cruised across the US, open up, y’all. But I’m also trying to still work my way though the Star Wars movies simultaneously. Are they like clones?
This morning, saw something that reminded me of the reasons I’m very much down on the reinvented Libertarian Party.
If anyone reading is interested in knowing why this is an antisemitic trope, I’ll assume that you’re savvy enough to STFW, and find out.
And I think I’ve written enough for today. Off to do some of the other things I need to do today.