Sunday, August 28, 2005
Friday, July 29, 2005
Employment: Still Sucking After All These Years
My job, lately, has been suckirific.
Workload has increased to nutty levels, at a nutty pace. My supervisor is either deliberately obtuse, or a moron (I think she's deliberately obtuse but using a cultivated "moron" persona to cover it), assigning work and responsibilities in a 'willy-nilly' fashion so that nothing you're assigned to do fits with anything else, there is no "flowing" from one task to another, nothing complements anything else.
Today, because of the lack of preparation for a new function that my group has taken on, I left work six hours late. Yeah, the overtime is nice, and I do like getting it, and yes, I do usually stay late anyway, but I stay to get ahead, or to get caught up. To stay so long and not make any progress... that just blows.
I am tired. I am frustrated. I am ready to give up. Busting your ass and feeling like you've made no progress is just about the worst thing there is about a job.
(but I won't give up. Despite my laziness and my love of goofing off, it is my nature to get things done, which is what I'll do now also. But I won't like it)
Workload has increased to nutty levels, at a nutty pace. My supervisor is either deliberately obtuse, or a moron (I think she's deliberately obtuse but using a cultivated "moron" persona to cover it), assigning work and responsibilities in a 'willy-nilly' fashion so that nothing you're assigned to do fits with anything else, there is no "flowing" from one task to another, nothing complements anything else.
Today, because of the lack of preparation for a new function that my group has taken on, I left work six hours late. Yeah, the overtime is nice, and I do like getting it, and yes, I do usually stay late anyway, but I stay to get ahead, or to get caught up. To stay so long and not make any progress... that just blows.
I am tired. I am frustrated. I am ready to give up. Busting your ass and feeling like you've made no progress is just about the worst thing there is about a job.
(but I won't give up. Despite my laziness and my love of goofing off, it is my nature to get things done, which is what I'll do now also. But I won't like it)
It's game time!
The moblog and blog of Morgan Webb, co-host of X-Play (which has its own moblog too). And if you're interested, what did Adam wear during the show?
Kevin Rose, former TechTV host, has a blog and moblog too.
Kevin Rose, former TechTV host, has a blog and moblog too.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Why not another quiz or two.
20 Questions to a Better Personality
(but... but... I like my personality the way it is!)
20 Questions to a Better Sense of Humor
(but... but... I like my personality the way it is!)
You are a SRCL--Sober Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you a Ayn Rand ideal.
Taggart? Roark? Galt? You are all of these. You were born to lead. You may not be particularly exciting, but you have a strange charisma--born of intellect and personal drive--that people begin to notice when they have been around you a while. You don't like to compromise, but you recognize when you have to.
You care absolutely nothing what other people think, and this somehow attracts people to you. Treat them well, use them wisely, and ascend to your rightful rank.
Of the 138179 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 5.4 % are this type.
20 Questions to a Better Sense of Humor
You are a DYT--Dark Dry Traditional. This makes you a Cynic.
You're a realist. You'll take the piss out of anything, and do it with style and a skinny gray tie. You find humor in the mundane. When the mundane is thousands of working class families watching their retirement savings get snarfed by unpunished white collar bandits, that REALLY gets the larfs.
You bring humor with you, and can flip over any situation to find the tender funny underbelly.
Incidentally, you're better equipped than anyone else to shake off the bad things happen to you. Mysterious lump? You've seen scarier lumps in your garlic cheesey grits. It seems like nothing makes you truly happy, but nothing really upsets you, either.
Your comic sensibility was more in tune with the eighties. But cross your fingers -- another coupla years of Bush and maybe we'll work up a nice Reagan-era national bitterness again. A sardonic orange cat will once again rule the newsprint, and Springsteen'll write more righteous Jersey retro-cock-rock anthems for the progressive pols of 2024 to cold gank. What's past is prologue!
You might like David Letterman, or maybe stay up to see if Conan has another "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage."
Of the 21832 people who have taken this quiz, 10 % are this type.
Your Active humor score of 8/10 means you are a comic house on fire. You are Def Comedy Jam (for the first five minutes, before it becomes repetitive and degrading). You are a library of witty rejoinders, in-jokes, ad-libs and meatballs. Yeah, I said meatballs. They're underrated.
The trick for you is to ease yourself into a situation, since you have the capacity to dominate. If you're socially well-adjusted, you're awesome. If you're kind of nervous and twitchy like Daniel Radcliff in the Prisoner of Azkaban special features, then there can be trouble.
Conflict is my bread and butter
A quiz to figure out what type of relationship-person you are.
You are a RSYG--Reserved Sentimental Physical Giver. This makes you a Nice Guy/Nice Girl.
Oh, poor RSYG. You're the one all your friends of your target sex *should* be dating when you have to watch them go out with jerks. You're the sweet one that the lead in a romantic comedy ends up with after s/he learns a valuable lesson. You're the best friend, the chaperone and the shoulder to cry on when you should be the lover. Well, no one ever said people were smart.
You dislike conflict -- you prefer to express yourself through action, not discussion -- but you know it is necessary. This means you are more likely to tackle an issue before it grows, but you're also more likely to stop fighting before the issue is resolved to your satisfaction. This isn't necessarily a bad thing -- it's kind of a nice compromise between fighting about everything and fighting about nothing -- but you have to remember to look out for your own interests sometimes.
You have a strong sexual appetite, but it seems so out of place with the rest of your persona that people find it hard to believe. Often they try to shield you from sexual content -- it's ridiculous, but you can use it to your advantage: everybody wants someone clean in the kitchen and dirty in the bedroom. That's you.
You don't want to cheat, but you might. Especially since it's only when you're in a relationship that you start getting the attention from your target sex that you should have been getting all along. Your experiences could make you misanthropic if you weren't so tenderhearted.
A lot of RSITs think they're RSYGs. They're not.
You'll end up with someone who deserves you in the end.
Eh, the result is a little spotty in the accuracy department. Firstly, I have no preference regarding how I express myself, through action or discussion. I usually express my 'loving' side through action (I'm affectionate and enjoy touching the people I care about), but my combativeness, anger, jealousy, etc, I express through discussion/argument.
As for my "strong sexual appetite" that "seems so out of place with the rest of your persona that people find it hard to believe." Um, no. It's fits in perfectly with the rest of my persona, and I'm certain that my friends have no doubt about that. None of them try to shield me from anything. My demeanor is NOTHING CLOSE to an innocent.
Next: okay, so I don't actively think "I want to cheat," that's true, but that's as close as I get to the "You don't want to cheat" description. Another recent interweb quiz thing I took gave me this result on one part:
So... um... yeah...... me. Anyway...
But I really am a nice guy to those I care for, and I'm polite to those I don't care for.
.... You know, this result really doesn't say much and what it does say is mostly incorrect.
(found via hit-or-miss)
Thursday, July 21, 2005
James Doohan dies
Oh...... Actor James Doohan died yesterday. I don't know how I could have missed the news, or that no one had mentioned it to me yet.
The CNN article (duplicated here)
The CNN article (duplicated here)
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Pop Quiz!
You scored as Fox. You are the Fox. You are quite intelligent and use it to your advantage. You are a diplomatic person and use that to help your friends in times of crisis, not choosing sides. You are also very patient, waiting for what you want.
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Friday, July 01, 2005
Because ten billion years' time is so fragile
I updated the "Currently" listing on the sidebar, and I wanted to mention here Now and Then, Here and There (review, also linked on sidebar). I've seen it several times over the last few years, but I rarely see it mentioned by many folks. I'm not hard-core into anime, but I do enjoy it and poke around the interweb occasionally looking for new titles, but I only heard about NTHT when Jason brought home the series from the video store.
It's a good story, and I really like the look of the animation (and hey, Shu is kind ofa hottie well drawn character, if I were into that type of thing). Characters are conflicted, and motivated. They make sense in the world they inhabit, and the issues with which they deal are treated well. No easy resolutions. I was very suprised by how much I cared what the characters, even the quote-unquote bad guys, were facing. It ranks up there with Whedonverse in characterization. It's worth a look if you have even a mild interest in anime.
It's a good story, and I really like the look of the animation (and hey, Shu is kind of
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
No force in the (drawn) verse.
A short Joss interview at TV Guide on the three upcoming Jossverse comic titles. Gotta get 'em!
Friday, June 17, 2005
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Friday, June 10, 2005
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
A series of short lectures/light reading on Medieval Europe. Perfect for giving yourself something to do while pretending to work without being too apparent to the co-workers around you.
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Friday, June 03, 2005
Do I have to go so far? Wouldn't something from your Wishlist work as well?
taken and posted before, but hey, fun is still fun, yah?
You are The Gift!
Which Buffy Episode Are You?
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You are The Gift!
Which Buffy Episode Are You?
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With my luck, they'd get Tori Spelling.
I'm certain that I've expressed some, um, negative feelings concerning Tori Spelling many times in this blog, even if a search only reveals a single example. I'm guessing that all of the others have been made without mentioning her by name. Dammit, I KNOW I've done it many, many times! It's Tori Spelling, for pete's sake!
Anyway, all this just so I can say that my estimation of Tori Spelling has risen over the last year or two. I'm not saying that she's great. Just saying that she... isn't that bad. and also that I think she will probably get better.
Here's the part where I talk about and link to stuff about dead cute fluffy animals to distract everyone from anything that may have come before.
Anyway, all this just so I can say that my estimation of Tori Spelling has risen over the last year or two. I'm not saying that she's great. Just saying that she... isn't that bad. and also that I think she will probably get better.
Here's the part where I talk about and link to stuff about dead cute fluffy animals to distract everyone from anything that may have come before.