Quote-of-the-Day

I was in a training class last week, and thought these quotes were interesting: Game time is not the time to improve skills. It’s the time to apply the skills. Projects have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Operations go on forever. Marry not the person that makes you happiest, but the person that makes you least unhappy. Metrics allow you to get rid of the losers. They DO NOT let you pick the winners The difference between a job and a career? About 20 hours a week.

Don’t get me wrong, lawyers serve an important function, but like e. coli in the body politic, too many will kill you.

Quick hits on a few things: * Quote of the Day: “We have two speeds of development: Fast, and Scalded Dog. Which is appropriate here” (no, that was NOT LXK ;-) ) * It’s a fabulous day outside, if you’re a duck. And, it’s supposed to snow tonight. What month is this, again? * Thanksgiving: Looks like we’re doing the Combs/Brentzel shuffle again this year. Thursday at the Combs family. Friday at the Brentzel clan. ...

Did you say distraction? Here I am! Was kin… Jeff Roberts - Nov 1, 2008 Did you say distraction? Here I am! Was kinda jazzed that everyone’s coming to us for Thanksgiving this year until I realized that meant a couple of nights of housecleaning!

GO SARCAMS!! (sic) I believe she meant “sarcasm”

…A well-managed organization in a “dull” organization. The “dramatic” things in such an organization are basic decisions that make the future, rather than heroics in mopping-up yesterday. Drucker, Peter. The Effective Executive, p. 42 I couldn’t agree more.

“Geeze…I can barely walk.”

You might be a baptist and just not know it :-) D… Jeff Roberts - Aug 0, 2008 You might be a baptist and just not know it :-) Did this involve a casserole? ROFL!!

ROFL!!! hmmmmm…..usually you detest p… Whitney - Jul 2, 2008 ROFL!!! hmmmmm…..usually you detest people who make you look bad in public…..

- “So, don’t you think that’s a requirement for being a software developer: Being detail-oriented?” - “Perhaps I’m a bad software developer, then.”

empty printer boxes to get for bart and bridgette…. Whitney - Apr 2, 2008 empty printer boxes to get for bart and bridgette…… I vote for VI++, except that sounds like a hopped-up text editor.

(Blathering description of how a device was probably broken, but if it was I had a magic way to fix it ’temporarily') My colleague: “You’re into all that nerdly stuff, arencha?” Yes. Yes I am.

“Isn’t it awful that he’s so old he only gets the parts of the dead guy?”

Wha??? Jeff Roberts - Sep 6, 2007 Wha???

TCL goodness One girl told me I loved my car more than I loved her. I replied that I love my car. I don’t love you. Oy. Make a girl feels special, whydoncha?

She: Your car is a hunk of junk. Me: At least i… Jeff Roberts - Aug 2, 2007 She: Your car is a hunk of junk. Me: At least it doesn’t belong to my Daddy. Yeah, that was the beginning of the end.

We had GREAT seats. I’ve never had seats like that for anything…not a High School band concert, even. We were 2 rows back from “center stage”. When they were doing their skits, the performers were maybe 5 feet away from me. I could see the creases in the makeup, that some performers were a LOT older than they wanted to appear. And then, it hits me. I’ve got highly made-up women on a platform above me dancing in spandex, sequins, and stockings: ...

(Scene: Inside a meeting room with my new department, going over survey results) S: “Well, the results indicate I’m not doing too well with y’allz careers on and individual level. So let me know if you’re aching to do something different..or if you’re bored with what you’ve been doing for 6 years.” B: “Like…Harold was.” Yep

:-) I’m pretty content with what I’m doing,… Jeff Roberts - Aug 3, 2007 :-) I’m pretty content with what I’m doing, although I just started ramping up for this iteration and found that all 3 of the things on my list are gated until NK does some work. Oh, well, another day or so to tie up loose ends before they turn into PTRs. ...

“Do you go a day without self-reflection?” “Yes” (narrowed eyes) “Do you go TWO days without it?” (long pause) “Yes. To answer your next question: Three days is pushing it.”