The Educated Fool

Learn something of a man by the way he wins,
And more by the way he loses.
Learn more by the way he plays,
And the most by the games he chooses.

Michael, from Witch Hunter Robin.







Because I figured it'd just draw hate if I said "God" :P

I can live with Colloquy, although I wish it had selective logging.

TextMate is decent for development.

I am slowly coming to loath Mail.app. Just too many things it doesn't do.

In other news, I probably worked 50 hour this week. Was there late three nights. Good humor on the subject wearing thin.

Two days ago, I bought a MacBook Pro. Mostly for work, but my personal laptop was due for replacement.

Does this mean I've joined the Cult of Mac?

Monday I had to myself. Spent much of it arranging things and getting my internet connected. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent almost entirely orientation. It's a good thing I'm not really expected to remember most of it, because there's no way I could. Spent Thursday doing something very unusual - reading documentation. Much of Friday was spent chasing the cause of a significant slowdown. It kept me at work about an hour and a half late.

Funny how it works when I work someplace that I actually like. Except for the bit where I started getting hungry, I actually didn't mind.

In other news, the lack of major pieces of furniture (couch, desk chair, a few other things) is getting annoying. I have some shopping to do once I get paid.

Typing this from my table in Kansas City, Missouri.

I have a stupidly large pantry and more kitchen cabinet space than my parents do. Also, I can hear music of some sort through my open windows.

I may actually like it here.

T-minus seven days to moveout.

Not looking forward to the drive to Kansas City. It's long, and endless plains are incredibly boring to look at.

Fighting with Ruby on Rails and mod_ruby/fcgi has completely turned me off to any inclination I might have had to want to learn Ruby or Rails.

I found a very nice apartment in Westport. It's about three blocks from my office. I'll post pics when I can.

Headed to Kansas City for the weekend to look at apartments.

I just got off the phone with my mom. They put down the family dog today. I was seven years old when we brought him home from the Humane Society.

I think I'm just going to go cry for a while.

I can haz jeorb!

EDIT: This would be the jeorb in Kansas City.

I've had another batch of phone interviews. Spoke to a company in Missouri last week. They had me do some code, and now I have a second phone interview with them on Wednesday. Spoke to a company in Arkansas today, they want a code sample. Spoke to a more local recruiter, not sure if anything's going to come of that yet.

I hope the company in Missouri liked that I opted not to reinvent the wheel when the opportunity presented itself.

Secrets that will let me play one against the other to remain free.

$this.age++;

Headed to Ft. Wayne on Tuesday.

I just watched all of Inukami. In two days. I'm not even sure why.


Well, OK, I am. The answer is Youko and Keita. All the other crap aside, those two and their relationship in why. There were enough moments between them to keep watching.

That, and all my private "chasing tail" jokes.

Had two interviews today. One of them was a first interview. One of them was a third interview. Best case, I get an offer sometime in the next few days.

I see entirely too many job postings for "web developer" that say something to the effect of "must know FrontPage" or "must know Dreamweaver". Most of them have plainly been written by HR, or generally someone who really doesn't know much of anything about web dev.

You know what? That's all bullshit. None of that is development, much less web development. Those are tools that exist to substitute for a real developer's abilities, skills, and knowledge. This is why Dreamweaver is the favored tool of designers who can't be bothered to learn a damn thing about XHTML, and probably have no idea who the W3C is. You know, the kind of people who don't see anything wrong with "Your work doesn't even come close to passing validation".

Yeah, sure, you can slap something together in Dreamweaver. You might even be able to do it fast. You know what, though? It sucks. Hands down, no questions asked. It sucks. Your "beautiful page", the one you did entirely in FrontPage, is a piece of utter shit. How do I know? Because you did using a tool that can only ever be a poor substitute for someone with a clue.

So, those job postings? There's a reason I avoid them. It's not because I don't use Dreamweaver. It's because postings like that are a sign of someone who cares about speed above quality, and I refuse to work in those conditions again.

I finally finished the Heaven's Feel route of Fate/stay Night last night. Sakura's true ending feels more like a ghastly parody of a happy ending than a real happy ending. There's just something deeply wrong about it.

I have a very difficult time with this one. Shiro basically destroyed himself. His morals, ethics, principles, and every ideal were replaced with "I'm in love". One can expect a certain amount of stupidity from a teenager in love. Sheltering a mass murderer goes well beyond that.