i am my own worst critic

meaning that i think that i'm totally wonderful. and i'm happy to quote myself, as written above:

the programmer's condition
we spend all our time communicating with objects that cannot think - there's obviously something wrong with us.
so please show a little consideration.
how to handle the situation
it'll be much, much easier for us to understand each other if you think of yourself as an inanimate object whenever you talk to me.

i slept in today, and drank too much coffee. i arrived at a meeting whose organizer wasn't aware that i'd been invited, but once we sorted out the mix up i played it to my advantage and sadistically freaked out my SC. i suppose it'd wind me up too if i saw one of my soldiers who's behind schedule appearing to not be working...

it was a good start to the day, we made it back to base in time for lunch, and from 12.30 i worked straight through until 9pm, pausing only for an hour to deal with yet another work-related but non-deadline and distasteful distraction.

ugh! my cast! so scratchy! i'm seeing the orthopaedic tomorrow, i'm praying it comes off already. enough!

it took two hours to get home, and the kid arrived shortly afterwards and joined me for sushi and ice-cream. i mean, he sat with me while i gorged myself.

here's a link that i got off of moonflake's post today (well, the comment's recent) that's left me flabbergasted. how do so many people this stupid manage to operate a pc and access the internet?
i feel a bit like ye olde priesthood when i say this, but maybe literacy (even lower levels of it as demonstrated in the link) shouldn't be relegated to the masses...

ArgumentumAdHominem is referring to a comment that herr pratchett made about the argument that darwin should've won a nobel if his theory was so great... anyone with the most elementary sense of the passage of time will immediately see the problem with this logic.

this video makes it hard to remember that we're looking at hard drives. lots of 'em. this is a fantastic use for x-box drives!