McJeff215

I have a Nexus 6. Honestly, it is too big. I'll go back to something smaller after I put some miles on this thing.

I'm up near Hickory for work every now and then (live in Atlanta). Nice area and silly low cost of living. I've looked at moving out there, but it is a little too small for me personally.

Maybe it's not so much a promotion of Rolston, rather, it's more like they just sent the whole damn team to Rochester! In all seriousness, I never felt bad calling for the head of Chan, Williams, Mularkey, Rob Johnson, or any of those Bills clowns. Lindy? Quite the opposite. It's a damn shame he didn't win a cup here.

On a somewhat related note, what about Center Ice availability? Has anyone heard anything? DirectTV still states that it isn't available. I want them to take my money.

This this. I noticed that as well and even made a comment to my wife about it. The Maggie scene... from what I understand, in the comic, the Governor keeps Michonne around longer and repeatedly rapes her as means to find the location of the prison. This was likely a means to tie that together.

That's always been the case. I think it's been geared to non-Russian speaking Europeans in the past.

I try to catch games in Russian as I'm a fairly poor Russian speaker. It actually helps a bit. . The little quote under my picture actually comes from this goofy little song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj4vbeoeXkg I hope ESPN makes a point of showing the games here. Maybe a little competition (however little) will light a fire... ....and interestingly, there's a phone ad on the khl.ru site right now that kinda reads "Maxim Afinogenov. Hockey champion of the world!" http://zebra.khl.ru/www/images/5a02e779aba34896cf0153168f7deeab.gif

My employer has stopped supplying coffee because "there's no budget for that." Needless to say, I'll have a new employer on the 26th.

I'm in a foul mood today. Incoming. +21 on the heat. +1 just doesn't cut it. I flew to San Antonio and back on Monday. Delta gave me the seat just behind the jet engine and just in front of the bathroom. I couldn't hear myself think and everything smelled like crap. Really. Worst flight ever. I kept having flashbacks of the "Lost" pilot as that's what it sounded like back there. We're moving office buildings because my company doesn't want to pay for this office. Moving back to a place we used to be. The area of town is worse (most dangerous public transportation stop in the city), parking is more expensive, and the floor above us has a data center on it. Not a problem, except for when the Lieberts kick on the floor rattles and the noise is god awful. At the same time, they bumped our health insurance by 20% (for those of us on ONE plan, they left the other one alone) and passed on raises this year. The whole time, they're telling us that "work balance" and "employee satisfaction" is a high priority. Bah. I just want to do my job without having to deal with crap like this. I haven't had a weekend without company in over a month. Okay. I feel better! That's just so therapeutic.

Watching our CEO make $1.4 Million last year while getting my request for a $2k server denied because we "just can't spend the money right now." Seriously? We're a profitable company!

Southern hockey fans. Went to see the Thrashers and Stars tonight. I'd be surprised if that place was more than half full. Same old Max, BTW. Skate like hell and then cough up the puck.

Work. More specifically, no one knows what's going on. No one. I work for an internet company that doesn't offer shopping cart. Well, let me rephrase, you can't have a shopping cart under "yourdomain.com." How elementary is that? To top it off, we can't even "commit" to when we will as VP A and VP B and VP C haven't yet hashed out our "ecommerce strategy." This isn't hard. I can automate the install of an OSS shopping cart package in probably less than a week. But, see, we need to take something dumb simple and wrap all of this corporate-esque shizat around it... why? I'm 160% convinced that companies that are A) public or B) employ over 100 people are crap. From top to bottom crap. This includes my employer. When the focus goes from customer happiness to Wall Street, or you can't expect to see the same person behind the desk every day, you lose something.

I had that same stuff happen. I thought I had brain tumors or a screwed up ticker or something. Turned out it was stress in my case as well. Glad to hear that's all it was.

95. Finding out our other office is getting prizes, free food, and great equipment while I have to kick my workstation to keep it from buzzing and pay for Cokes. Finding out because I started following them on Twitter makes it that much more fun.

One more... guys that do conference calls, on speaker phone, that sit ten feet away. Echo. Echo. Echo. Get a damn conference room. Use one of the offices you're in. You're annoying.

1. Russian verb structure. Holy crap. Confusing. 2. Cancer. 3. Enroth. I really wanted to see him take another game after shaking out the "first start jitters."

Making the wife do it>Mulch with lawnmower(no bagging)> Blowing>Raking ;) 1. Cancer. 2. Atlanta traffic. 3. Direct TV, HD Hockey, and Versus. 4. Sleeping like crap last night.

1. My father-in-law found out yesterday that he has terminal cancer... when we woke up from the operation that was supposed to keep that from happening. 2. My littlest one just looked at my Sabres jersey and said "Banana Shirt!"

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

iPhone games that do not respect the "vibrate mode" and the way coworkers look up when that happens in a meeting.

I like FaceBook. Living 1000 miles South of home, I can still keep in touch with all of my old friends on a daily basis. Today's Complaints: 1. I can't take this big shiny new 24" iMac to work with me tomorrow. I don't know how I'm going put up with the 17" POS I have there. 2. NetApp NFS locking went to hell this morning due to some buggy code, but the operations manager decided to roll back code changes I made the night before, even though the two are not related. I'm parallel to him org-wise, but on the development side. He didn't like when I told his people not to do it, but they listened to me over him because I'm right more often. 3. Above manager's people bitching to me about how their department sucks. 4. I spent six months working on my own products to sell on the side and then accidentally brought it up at work in a moment of sheer stupidity. Our management loved it and now they want to use it at work. Now, if I sell it myself, I'm in violation of my employment agreements. Damn it! Good lord... Edit.. http://thrashers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=56744 Please, come see us play? Please? Gotta feel bad for the players... "Wow, I'm going to the NHL!! I've been claimed by.... Atlanta?"

I've been an Apple guy for years (Hush, I just like them better). I'm going to pick up a new machine soon. I made the mistake of looking at the Wintel prices and now I'm cringing a bit. Do I want to give Dell a whirl? HP? Or, do I stick with the Apple machines that I've been so happy with for years. I'm thinking Apple, but good Lord, that's some serious cheese. Oh, and just about corporate everything.

I called to check and they said I'm good to go, and then spent 10 minutes trying to sell me Sunday Ticket as well as some "Super Fan" package that's a bundle of those things.

That automatically renews, right? I should just be billed for it, um, soon?

We could go Cyrillic. C == S and K == K. No S. How's that? Today: My POS CTO was up here this week, sat on the other side of the floor, and didn't so much stop by. We're a 700 person company. When we asked about our yearly reviews? "We only give our raises if you've been promoted or otherwise had a change in responsibility." What about COL and the major slashing we've done to our benefits? "Yeah, we're not so good at that." Yeah, but I'd bet you cleared a million this year.