friday perspective

i slept well, i guess, and my stomache seems to be settling down a bit. heck, after a corned-beef salad for lunch i went for my first proper run in half a year. according to google maps i did about 13km, and that just about matches what my legs report :)

this morning i missioned to buy glycerine - it's a requirement for constructing a snow globe. the supermarket doesn't stock, and the woman at the pharmacy told me that while they're out, *every* pharmacy should have. at least i don't need it urgently.

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on the way, i spoke to the hardware dude and he threw a solid reality check. he hardly remembers my name, but asked me how work is going. when i told him i still haven't found a job, he said that if you want to make money in this economy you have to be a bug, a slave, and studying isn't endearing to task-masters. he said that even if i'm right about how people should be employed, society is unchanging and i need to fit in if i want to survive.

he's right, to a degree. but i'm not letting go that easily. the question that's been swirling around my head since that discussion is "how can employers be blind to all the benefits of employing two good minds for the price of one?"
for sure, there's no guarantee that they're good minds: you have to pay attention when hiring and use trial periods to figure that out. but the principles of extreme programming indicate that by and large, you'd get better quality out of more, and less taxed, workers. [now adding this to the manifesto]

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pg rocked up for lunch, just as i was finalizing the purchase of a domain for my wired-inspired project (i'm going to call it norman for now). taking a break from the skate farm (eddy matzger's two-day rollerblading camp). she had the beef parisian, i settled for a taste :)

once i got back from the run, i built norman's database - most of it, at least. i'm surprised at how cohesive all the bits are and how obviously all the pieces fit together.