I’m a Restroom Librarian

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Odd subject, isn’t it? When I was in the restroom earlier, I just happened to think about how the magazine stack is getting unruly. For some reason, I decided to blog about it. Go figure.

A couple of years ago, our company President (at the time) decided to change some things around in the kitchen. He moved the microwave to the counter and put the cart into the men’s restroom. A tall cabinet was also added to the kitchen. He put all of his old CRN, Inc. and similar business magazines on the cart in the restroom. Every now and then, he’d put the most recent issues on the cart.

Well, he quit doing it after a while. Since I had a couple of subscriptions going at home, I started bringing those in. I wasn’t getting around to reading them at home because I read books there. Like a lot of guys, I’m a “throne reader”¹. At home, I’ll spend, on average, 30 minutes at a time just reading in there. My left leg always goes to sleep during that time. I usually do at least 3 of those visits a day (in the morning, when I first get home, and before bed). I’ve read dozens and dozens of books that way. I may seem like a freak to some of you, but, as I said, lots of guys do it! Even my dad does. Ok.. back to the topic at hand.

Which Transformer are you?

So I haven’t been blogging at all in a while. I can’t understand why I get so tired and don’t have the will to blog about all the things that I have an inner need to discuss. It’s not as if I can’t find anything to talk about. I just can’t bring myself to type out the words. It must be work that has shot holes all in my will and whatnot.

So, I’ve been going around and putting all the blog buddies I’ve ignored into Google Reader. That way, I can at least keep up with what everyone else is doing and possibly leave some comments. While looking around, I came across sulz’s Lowbrow Blog Post that included this quiz (which she found from another blog friend).

I’m quite happy with the results.

Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!

I’m following ZDNetBlogs on Twitter and just got a notification for Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!. This is wrong on so many levels. I don’t use any Microsoft services online. Yes, I’m a devoted Microsoft developer ever since GW-BASIC, but I really don’t like their online offerings. They can’t even keep the MSDN straight. Links to articles malfunction after somewhere around 6 months. The design won’t even stay put. I can’t imagine what they’d do to all of Yahoo’s stuff, especially since there’s duplication abound. The only Yahoo service I’m using at the moment is Flickr. I bet Microsoft would turn that into a big, steaming pile of WTF if they got their hands on it.

I might post more about this later, but I figured I’d drop in and say something real quick. Time to get back to work.

I’d just like to say

I like C# 2.0/2005. My code is pretty… and well-commented… and complex… and.. I’m GOING F’ING CRAZY!

Seriously… remember when I made my Argh post at the beginning of the month? I’m still working on that project! It’s insane. Instead of doing the usual “put the fire out” hack job, I’ve been trying to make the application absolutely perfect, including having reusable classes that can be used in other applications that I know I’ll need to rewrite later.

I can’t even remember how many times I’ve changed my estimated date of completion. Surprisingly, my supervisor doesn’t care, but the “Director of Operations” keeps pestering her with requests for status. He knows the answer, but he keeps doing that. Every now and then, he’ll ask me directly. I stayed some crazy hours the week of the 14th (67 to be precise - not my record) in hopes of getting it done sooner. Nope. I managed to complete more of it, but everytime I think the finish line is in sight, it moves away. I can’t catch it! I’m going to be staying late tonight to try to get it done.. maybe.. hopefully. Man.. people are going to be pissed if I don’t get this done soon.

How fast do you type?

Considering I’m not even warmed up all the way, this is a pretty good result. In fact, it had too much of a delay after I pressed the spacebar on some of the words. I had to wait for a split second for the next word to be highlighted. I didn’t want to start typing until it did because it might count it as wrong.

Also, your results may vary. I did the test 4 times just to get a feel for what it expected. On this final one, it included much bigger words, but also way too many two- and three-letter words (which actually slow me down when in large groups).

You type 361 characters per minute
You have 69 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

I found the test via carocat’s blog.

EDIT: Here are Samantha’s results for three tries: 111, 103, and 110.

Can you tell she chats on AOL a bit much?