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Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
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Cori's at the spa. I hopped on Reddit for a few, partly to avoid wasting time on inane iPhone games while waiting for photos to import, and partly because, well, I'm completely addicted to Reddit.
There was a site long ago called "kuro5hin" that was a precursor to the modern blogonet in the same way that Everything2 was a precursor to Wikipedia. It was semi-curated, sort-of-peer-reviewed blog-type articles written specifically for the site. Now Reddit plus the enormity of the Internet means that even blog is automatically a part of a thing like kuro5hin.
That's no interesting is except that this article I found this morning reminds me of the type of thing that used to appear on kuro5hin, but now appears on a separate blog and is linked from Reddit.
www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-program...
This is an extended blog post about lots of elements of the software engineering jobspace. It touches on hiring, job seeking, and a number of other aspects of what has become my world. It is an interesting writeup that I think I can summarize in a few sentences.
1. Tools are a two-week project.
2. Think like a businessman, not a programmer.
3. Network.
That is to say: No tool is worth hiring for. If you are hiring a good person, it shouldn't matter if they know Ruby or Haskel or whatever. They can learn it if they are good, usually in less than 2 weeks (at least enough to do their job). After 6 months they will be proficient and you won't be able to tell them from the old hands. On the flip side, the side that I am currently interested in, you should not try to hire yourself out using a set of keywords on a resume that describe the technologies you are familiar with. If you get hired because of a resume like this, you will likely be unhappy because the people who hire in this manner are themselves not excellent.
Don't think like a programmer: You should not define yourself by your code or the languages you know, you should define yourself by the costs and benefits you give to the organization. Your resume should talk about the positive impacts you had at your organization. Talk about value, not code. Talk about how fast you learn only insofar as it communicates how quickly you can provide value at a new job. Phone screens that you do should focus on value provided, not skills the candidate has.
Be nice to everyone and meet as many people as you can, because most jobs are never posted publicly. Networking is important for meeting people but also for building interpersonal skills, which helps in everything from doing your job to negotiating offers. And you should negotiate.
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Now this is all stuff I've thought about before. At Isilon, I've long espoused that tools don't matter on a resume when we interview people, except insofar as they allow you to discuss professional topics with the interviewee on a common ground. Very few people believe me, but I still maintain it.
This is just a step along my Life Improvement path. The guy who wrote the post/essay above is strongly opinionated and strongly opinionated people are likely to be more wrong than weakly opinionated ones just because of the strength of their convictions. So it would be easy to read this guy's words and come to the conclusion that he is out of his mind because he is wrong about a few things (like trying to compare peer-reviewed, evidence-based, journal-published articles with blogs, for instance).
But... he does bring up some new things, though. Here are some questions he raises that are now percolating in my head.
1. School is an economic decision. And it's got a huge up-front investment cost that needs to be made up over time in some fashion. But something I hadn't considered previously: Most of the Profit Center careers in my field are populated by people who have advanced degrees and are doing what is essentially applied research. Financial firms hire MBA's who can program, biotech companies hire biochemists who can program. Etc. I have not ever really been interested in that kind of thing, but I might be eventually.
2. Work isn't called "play". It might have been worth sticking around in my management position a bit longer, to try to fix the problems that I was dealing with (which were myriad) and to try to acquire the skills that I felt I was poor with (which were myriad). I am pretty sure that whatever position I look for next will be in the "technical manager" vein, precisely so that I can work to acquire the skills I felt I lacked as a manager.
3. How do I define "value" in my current position? Is it worthwhile to consider "business value" as a metric when I evaluate and prioritize my tasks?
4. I rolled a 95-99 on his "How to value an equity grant" scale. Could I be so lucky again? Is it worth trying?
5. How does all this fit in with photography stuff?
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I had to turn down another opportunity at Red Box two days ago. It's heartbreaking to say no to these guys twice in a row, especially considering how amazing shooting that wedding with Scott was the first time. I've been home for weeks now and could have said yes to any number of invitations except for the last two. I tried to explain as much. Hopefully I will be able to say Yes to the next offer. Cori said this morning that even after the little one arrives, she would help make time for me to apprentice in this manner. I hope she gives me a chance to reciprocate.
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Photographer's Notes: This is the kind of photo that newbies to photography mess up. I know I've messed up many similar shots. A camera's auto-exposure system wants to make sure your photos all have a nice brightness histogram -- it should ideally look fairly flat, possibly with a Gaussian-like bump in the middle. This photo doesn't have that because so much of it is silhouetted. I think I took this at -1.7EV on aperture priority mode and then processed it for the clouds. That's what you want to see, that's where the detail needs to be. A standard P-setting shot would have produced something where the clouds were overexposed. Not what I wanted here.
There is a full writeup of Richard Stallman talking about a free dital society over on my website.
Richard Stallman is something of a legend. He singlehandedly launched the Free Software movement, and the GNU project and has been campaigning for software freedom for almost as long as there have been usable home computers. I jumped at the opportunity to see him talk at the Institution of Engineering and Technology. His topic was "A Free Digital Society", and he spoke on the various problems — nonfree software, software as a service, invasion of privacy, and such — that are often ignored by the discourse of digital inclusion.
I really only posted this one so I could link to it from my blog, where I've done a little writeup of the brick things: daveorandom.blogspot.com/2012/01/bricks.html
Read a writeup of the gig at randomfire.fierymill.net/archives/2011/07/16/reckless-lov... and see more pictures from the gig in our photogallery at dev.fierymill.net/photography/music/reckless-love-20110712/
Jason's enthusiasm for the Bandit 29 resulted in a great writeup of his first experience on a big wheeler. Check out his words and my photos here. Thanks to Matt at North Shore Bike Shop for letting us take her out!
Jay Oliva at the press roundtable sessions at New York Comic Con 2013. <A HREF="http://www.toonzone.net/2013/10/nycc-2013-justice-league-war-roundtable-interviews-jay-oliva-james-tucker-andrea-romano/">Check out our writeup of the roundtable sessions here.</A>
The main entrance to the former facility. Camp X-Ray was only used to detail prisoners of war for 4 months. In its previous, much smaller, version, it was used to detain misbehaving migrants.
Trip writeup:
One of the nicest bottles around copying the old pirate design of rumbottles. Nice tangy orangy rum, that I finished. Rather than throwing out the bottle I poured my Abuelo 7 years into it. Heavy glass with bubbles in it.
Read a writeup here.
Took a bunch of pics from my walk the other day. It was SO beautiful out. Spring has sprung. :-)))
But just the trees are starting to bloom. The plants haven't started yet.
And... I dug out my old digital camera from 2007! No iPhone this time. But it has the same resolution as the iPhone. (DPI) Oh well. I'm experimenting with it anyways. Gotta re-read the manual & my writeup of it. It does lots of stuff the iPhone doesn't.
this guy who writes blogs on the BrooWaha came to open studios and wrote a bit on me! you can find the whole article here:
losangeles.broowaha.com/article.php?id=1458&do=thxvote
or heres the part on me!:
"Scaled back from her Graduate Thesis show “Transport, Transform,” Heather Rasmussen turned shipping containers – objects too large to be made by hand – into playthings in her studio. By downsizing these hulking containers to hand-held, geometric pawns, she was like Godzilla playing Tetris on a busy container yard.
Godzilla imbued with her rational mind, of course. Rasmussen arranged the colored blocks in rows and columns according to satellite stills taken of shipyards at the Port of Los Angeles. To add to the spirit of the “game,” she tacked a tally sheet to her studio wall as a scorekeeping mechanism, as if to show which colors were “winning” or “losing.”
In reality, these multi-ton containers are color-coded to identify which shipping company each belongs to. Maritime trade is big business, and Rasmussen knows this as well as anyone. Her exhibit succeeds because it taps into what LEGO has always known: interacting with objects is fun.
And it’s supposed to be fun. Freed from proselytizing or ticking points off an agenda, Rasmussen invited us to remember when couches were forts and bathtubs were tugboats. Back when sharing our objects was a virtue. "
Pictured is the iMBranded Service Writer Desk, seen in our Windsor Mahogany finish at Ourisman Chrysler in Alexandria, VA.
A writeup about one of my porcelain designs and one of Gordon's photographs appears in the latest issue of a national magazine hot off the presses!
Published in the American Spirit magazine, May/June 2007, page 8.
Read more here.
[Full writeup here.]
The narrow end of the pipe connector is going to be connected to the camera; to maximise the usability of the lens, we want the narrow end to be as short as is practical. The general idea is to put the t-mount adapter into the narrow end, and to use the pipe clip to secure it into place.
Slide the pipe clip as far along as it can go along the connector, and score using a hobby knife around the edge of it that is going to be attaching to the camera. Remove the clip, and cut along the score line (again, a hobby knife will do the job here) to chop off the top of the connector. Keep the cut as perpendicular to the surface as possible.
My T-mount adapter was a little than two inches on its external diameter, and the connector itself is designed with a two inch fitting on its narrow end. With a bit of careful levering, the adapter can be wedged into the connector. Whilst it is a good fit, it's a good idea to the pipe clamp back on and screw it tightly into place. Last thing you need is the adapter falling apart when it is on the camera :P
Protection Detail and repair of a nasty scratch carried out by DeVille Detailing. Read the full detail writeup here: www.devilledetailing.co.uk/1/post/2014/01/mazda-6-sport-p...
Thanks to The Dragonfly Woman for the ID! Taken at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve.
Check out all of my Species a Day writeups here.
At the Hope Outdoor Gallery
Writeup here: www.willtung.com/blog/2014/2/19/hope-outdoor-gallery
Processed with VSCOcam with x2 preset
Images from OOAK designer Matt Sutton party. writeup available at insidethefashiondollstudio.com/2018/07/10/2018-nbdcc-matt...
A rose by any other name. And even her fingernails are colour-coordinated. He clutching his cigarette packet. Writeup on My Glittery Pussycats.
Laureen and Joyce's Extreme Pumpkins Extravaganza 2013
To see the writeup, pls go here: gothamist.com/2013/10/21/photos_boerum_hill_residents_wan...
OMG, now they're on the New York Post as the "Most Disturbing Halloween Decorations EVER"!!! To read the article, go here: nypost.com/2013/10/21/are-bloody-baby-dolls-inappropriate...
Spotted this lady standing next to the sign along Orchard Road although its so hot.
I wish I was as good as James Yeung at writing interesting writeups for his pictures...
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