Saturday, May 30, 2009

pigs

The carelessness of some people is very annoying. Take recycling. I have worked w/recycling Al cans at both church and work. Why do people throw trash in the recycling containers?

Now the green committee at work has placed cardboard boxes in the break rooms for recycling plastic containers. No rollout. Just shazam! Result -- people put garbage in the containers.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing right!

That'll do, Pig!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

obscure computer humor

I wrote this a while back.

Background:

DUQN is Duquesne Systems, a former software vendor (I once worked for them - good company w/good people working on good mainframe software products)

Morino is Morino Associates, a former software vendor

Legent is a former software vendor formed by the merger of those two

Goal a former software vendor bought by Legent

dwarf is one of many small former software vendors bought by Legent

CA is Compter Associates, a software vendor that bought Legent

the math of it all expressed as computer code:

DUQN + Morino = Legent + excitement due to culture clash + 0*progress + bad management

Do i=1 to n

Legent + dwarf = Legent + little result

Enddo

Legent + Goal = Legent + silly t-shirt + lost benefits + layoff(s) + semi-chaos + more bad management

Legent + CA + financial fraud = CA + large job loss + nice severance + lousy service + pissed off (American English) customers + no indictments (statute of limitations ran out too soon)

(c) 2007 DataStructuresHouston

Sunday, March 22, 2009

for gatito

Cat Got Your Fish?

good bile

Toxic R Us

a Katrina moment for MrO

Has a ‘Katrina Moment’ Arrived?

new fraud in case you are unsatisfied

Red Flags That Muni Investors Can’t See

followup

I just had my laptop memory upgraded by the Geek Squad @ Best Buy. Purchase of the year. Should have had it done sooner.

The kid who was the team leader looks geek, talks geek. But he is a college graduate w/degree in accounting. Has had interviews but no job offers. He is now taking a masters (MBA?).

I asked him why he was working for GS and he said he needed a job. Engaged to be married. Bummer dude. I told him to stay in IT until something opens up.

Wish I had had a job like that when I was in college. Well, ok, I was in IT, called EAM back then.

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