As a benefit of getting me during the work day you get to hear me bitch about organizational politics.

To wit: Dear idealists at headquarters: if you think it's so important that X be protected, perhaps you should find the cash to protect X rather than badger me about it. X is not my responsibility, and in fact you have gone to great lengths to take all Xs out of my responsibility. You can't then insist I find $80K in my pockets to protect X. Do it yourself!

Argh. I've spent 2 years discussing this with them, and they just don't get it. Yes, X is valuable and important, but their insistence that only their way is the right way is just pissing people off and making us find ways around them. Frelling idealists.

Jesse, did you see this: [link]

Of course! Love it! Effing Dan Feyer.

Hey, y'all...I've just had to skip/skim the past few days worth of posts due to extreme Life getting in the way. Just busy with work stuff (show is next week...need props, costumes, and sets!). The good news is my work has paid off and I have all props and costumes. I built some cubes and they are getting painted tonight. Yay!

Student quote of the day (said to another student): "Are you supposed to look gangsta? Cuz you just look homeless."

Dude, of course IIS lets you set a default page for every folder on a global setting. I don't know where, and I don't know how, but it can't compete with Apache if it doesn't.

There are some weird things that the main developer I work with doesn't know. Still, he's brilliant on most fronts and dedicated to a fault.

Some publishers will sell books at a much lower discount to authors than bookstores. If a bookstore wants to help out an author they will sometimes let them sell these copies, which yields the author a lot more per book than royalties on the books the bookstore sells.

This is my experience with my singer/songwriter buds. Especially with independent book/music stores. Depending on how cool they are, the stores are willing to take the extra bite in their own profits to get folks in the door on performance days.

The activity thing is odd. The story times at our dinky local library branch are packed as a rule. No extra effort required.

In a sea of overtaxing requirements to see something great get its due, I can see how the request would be aggravating but, in the end, they can ask for anything they can imagine. Don't mean they're gonna get it.

OMG, I just had an argument with my boss, who believes that the phrase "course materials placed on reserve" does not include books placed on reserve.

Dagnabbit! Tumblr came back, but now is down again?? WTF, dudes.

SF Bay Area jobs with Pandora [link]

Last week I called in for three refills, and when I emailed my doctor's assistant I only mentioned two. So she only got refills for those two.

Shouldn't she just be refilling what the pharmacy asks her for, and not waiting for me to remind her? I just sent in a "What about the third?" email and she said she guesses she can refill it without waiting on the doctor. Dude, it's Vitamin D. Also, why have you been waiting a week for him to refill Vitamin D?

He asked me if she was a slow part of the refill process, and I skipped past that and blamed the pharmacy, because I was feeling avoidant, but seriously. It's been over a week.

In re: Amy's post about liking winter except for all the sick people... why more sick people in winter? Is this something I knew once but have now forgotten? Or does it only seem like there are more sick people? But then why flu/winter. I feel like I once used to know a lot of things I can't retrieve anymore. Bah.