Recent Comments

1. about 12 years ago on The Norm Classics

   That’s the line I’m going to use for nap time.

2. about 12 years ago on In the Bleachers

   Timeout! Everyone over to third base to sniff it.

3. about 12 years ago on Lio

   What gets me is the name of the tool – the Pumpkin Shank 9000!

4. about 12 years ago on Rudy Park

   I’d rather have any servant. Instead I have a Pastor who says I should be a servant.

5. about 12 years ago on The Norm Classics

   Hey! Another DP Geezer! (for you young ‘ens, it used to be called Data Processing). The first company I ever worked for hadn’t successfully completed a contract in its 10 year existence. Most ended up in lawsuits. In my two years there, I successfully completed 5. I did it by watching how the users did thier jobs, which lead to solutions that made thier lives easier, not harder.

   In my first internship, I was asked to make a small change to some report. In studying the thing, I realized a one line change to a sort would save the users some time. I didn’t realize it would cut 3 days a month down to 2 hours. Rookie green college kid on summer internship gets a party in his honor.
6. about 12 years ago on In the Bleachers

   I’m one of the boss’s good guys and it still feels like this when he messages me and says, ‘I need to talk’. And everytime he’s done this, it’s been a promotion or a bonus. It still feels like I’m gonna get sacked.

7. about 12 years ago on Pickles

   One of my wife’s complaints is that I always think I’m right. And an even bigger problem she says, is that I usually really am right and don’t make lots of mistakes. Partly comes from being an engineer. Partly from 30+ years of working in a world where risk mitigation is a major portion of the perspective to the job at hand.

   But from my side, such a track record makes for too much ego and serious introspection when I do make a mistake.

8. about 12 years ago on The Norm Classics

   You know they’re your friends when they won’t put up with your BS.

9. about 12 years ago on Lio

   ditch the sports idea. Sign Lio up for the robotics club.

10. about 12 years ago on Red and Rover

    Reminds me of my previous dog Sheila, an Aussie/Chow mix, who would knock folks over. First time she saw an infant who was only about 6-8 weeks old, mom put baby down on the floor on a blanket and Sheila lay down 4 feet away. Then crept up to about a foot away so the baby could beat her on the nose.