reading in the bathroom

Posted on by kylar

so, like, whenever i hit the head for a bit of sit-down time with my porcelian buddy, i like to take a little somethin to read.. a newsletter, article, book, magazine, whatever. it’s not that my white friend isn’t a good conversationalist, but i just like to take my time, make sure nothing is rushed, relax a bit, have a little read while i’m there. no problem at work, tons of stalls, lots of bathrooms, and a fiction library on my floor that i can visit whenever i need something new. no people coming in, knocking on the door, saying “you done yet?”. sure, the tp is a little thin, and a little harsh, but these are small prices to pay for my privacy & relaxed time limits. flash-sideways to home, 3 people, one bathroom. of course the bean doesn’t use the bathroom, she’s got a portable one that she wears, but my wife has a bladder the size of a snow pea. (no pun intended). guarantee that if i need to go.. so does she. that means no reading, relaxing.. you get the picture. now, i’m not saying i never get to have some quality print time in my personal stink chamber. it does happen, but not with the *reliablity* that i come to expect of the facilities at work. maybe i need to get on some kind of special diet that allows me to estimate when i’m gonna need to go, so that i can schedule it at work. anyways, enough about me. today’s topic: reading in the bathroom, weird? ok? sucks? talk amongst yourselves.

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skript kiddies

Posted on by kylar

so last week i’m driving to work, and i pass some guy in a black sedan, a lexus or mercedes.. whatever. and i look over and his license plate says ‘irl33t’ – which for those of you who are not hardcore internet addicts might not find amusing. i, however laughed out loud in my car, and then thought ‘damn, why do so many larts have to live here?’ i guess i’ve got this superiority thing.. and a lot of my friends do too. if someone calls themselves ‘leet’ or ‘elite’ or whatever.. they’re not worth the time it would take to flip them off. so i get to work and log on, fire up the ssh client and attach to my irc process, and proceed to tell the gang about my close encounter with the kiddie kind… and they all get a good chuckle, until one of them says “you should have ran him off the road and started screaming ‘i haxx0red joo’ or ‘1 0wnz j00! all your base are belong to us!’ and then i really lost it, i was laughing so loud that other people were staring at me in my cube. so i guess that these peeps are good for something.. nothing technical, mind you, but they can make me laugh :)

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generic picker-upper

Posted on by kylar

hey hey there, i know, things are kinda sucky, but it’s gonna be ok. no, seriously. you’re a really nice person, and good looking, and a great personality. i mean it. things are going to turn around, life will pick up, you’ll find a new (job|car|guy|girl|pet) real soon. and i know you were having a hard time with your (girlfriend|boyfriend|car|boss|parents|job), but (he|she|it) was just not right for you. you’re much better than that. you’re strong, courageous and kind, and things are looking bright for you! i can tell that good things are going to happen for you, and soon! right now you need some coff-ay and a hug, and i’ll provide both. then just let tommorow take care of itself. remember: worry is just like a rocking chair. it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere. chin up!

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more characters from work

Posted on by kylar

i made a post a little while ago about funny characters from work. (you may remember – ‘crazy tech writer’ and ‘talks to himself’. so today there’s a couple others i’d like to talk about – ‘asian porn star’ and ‘arrogant new guy’ – these are 2 guys that work here. ‘asian porn star’ is a tall guy who has a mustache that is totally circa 1970’s pr0n work. every time i see him i crack up internally, thinking about the mustache. he’s a really cool guy, and very pleasant, and i just wonder if i’m the only one who thinks that. on to ‘arrogant new guy’ – this is an engineer who is one of the newer peeps here and he comes to me occasionally and asks condecending questions about code that he doesn’t really get. like ‘why do you do ‘a’ when you could be doing ‘b’ – it’s twice as fast, and much easier. then i get mad (hidden) and have to tell him ‘we tried b, but ran into problem x, and after talking about it, ‘a’ was the only way to get around it.’ he thinks about it for a while then comes back and says ‘i think i figured out a way to make ‘b’ work.’ and this leads me to 2 thoughts: 1) why weren’t you doing other work, since we all have tons of crap to do? and 2) why can’t you just take my word for it? i wrote the damn code and i’m pretty sure that i’m smarter than you. so usually i end up saying ‘well, if you want to try, go ahead, but make sure you test it really well, since it’s already working right. you need to test these 19 parts. go for it.’ then a couple days later i realize that he never checked in any changes.. guess his idea didn’t work out. i can remember when i started on as an engineer… i would find bugs in my code belonging to my peers and boss, but i’d make the changes and test them thorougly before going to them to tell them. that way at least i was right :). cheers all.

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more motivation.. or not

Posted on by kylar

so it’s monday morning and i’m like.. not motivated.. or anything. i have some tasks and crap to do at work. i’m really tired.. but that’s nothing new. i don’t sleep so well.. sometimes i wake up 10 or 12 times at night.. you know that can’t be good. and i have a hard time getting up every day. this morning i hadda get up way early to take my car in for it’s 3k checkup.. oil & fluids etc. i have a saturn sedan, and a car care program, so i just drive it in, read my book and get a donut, and drive out again 45 minutes later. it’s pretty convenient. also i’ve been thinking about how i don’t write on my blog too much.. only like once or twice a week.. and that’s due to my lack of motivation too. not blogging won’t get me fired though. oh well, enough seriously random rambling.

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