It’s official, I’m now 50 years old. So get off my lawn, ya darned hippies! Get a haircut! The transition to “grumpy old man Cahill” is now pretty much complete. In addition to a new found desire to buy a straw fedora, drive 40 in the fast lane on the Pike, and hit the early bird special at Denny’s, I’ve also got some advice for all you young whippersnappers Get better by being better – talking about it is one…
A bit of randomness…since I’ve been working like crazy the past two weeks. Once again we have a foiled terrorist attack and the media immediately blames the usual suspect, middle age white guys. Talk about racial profiling… The striped bass have hit Boston Harbor. Personally, I want to head to the Cape and try the rivers for schoolies this weekend. I’m laying off the Red Sox tweets for a while. Still watching the games, but I see we’ve still got…
I’ve been ultra-busy as of late. I’ll be posting over the weekend so look forward to some new and substantive content soon.
I’ve been working with software engineers for a long time. The best are all united in one common attribute: pride. Not pride in the sense of the deadly sin, no, I mean the good kind. The kind that makes them make that extra effort to ensure their product works right, or their website stays up, or their system isn’t going to need constant care and feeding. Most of these folks (and I say folks as this certainly isn’t males only…
This is hilarious!
I’ve got no words for this one. Brilliant…
Last Train Home – reminds me of my days at UVM when Pat was everywhere. Dig deeper: PatMetheny.com – his official site Wikipedia page
I don’t talk publicly about politics much. Not that I don’t have something to say, but more because I think our votes are personal things. I respect your right to use yours however you want. I live in Massachusetts. That makes it easy to be apathetic about politics, as we’ve got a one party state government. Personally, I am an an independent. Throughout the fall, I watched as the Democrats argued over which of them would become the heir to “Senator Kennedy’s…
As of Monday, I’m now working as Senior Software Engineer for Afternic.com (to be clear, one of the senior software engineers). It’s probably the right time for a change, I’ve basically been working full time on Splitcoaststampers.com now for 14 months and after our server migration project, it had become more of a maintenance project. The good news was that we had a site that was falling over several times a week and we got it stable to the point…
Vacation’s over and I’m definitely ready to get back to work and back to blogging. Over the past week: I traded my old Ford Ranger with 186k miles and a trashed U-joint for a 2001 Ford Explorer Limited with 100k, fully loaded. A dramatic improvement in my commute… We celebrated Madison making honor roll. Had a great Thanksgiving at my mothers house with my side of the family. It was excellent to see everyone. Worked on some general financial housekeeping…