GeniusMusing

The joy and fun of waiting on support As I write this, my work is more or less finished on my end for about a week now and while I have added my files to their internal site and most of it seems to be working some of their server software needs to be brought to current versions and a reboot to continue. While I know their sysadmin very well, they also use an outside service for most of the lower level support which [...] Read more

Holidays have gotten out of hand. According to the Holiday Calendar site, on April 3rd, there are five holidays. They are: National Film Score Day National Tweed Day National Chocolate Mousse Day National Find a Rainbow Day National Love Our Children Day Looking at then by month, last month was the high for the year at 477 with 192 this month. The total for the year is 2520 "holidays" around the world. Surprisingly, [...] Read more

That moment you realize it is going to work So I have been working on a spec project since early February, averaging about seven hours a day, seven days a week. At some point in the last two weeks I realized two things, one, I done screwed up and didn't think through the back end of this project and had to do almost a complete re-write of the back end with about 70% of the code done. I also had two presentations to a [...] Read more

Once again we are moving the clocks because this is one of those things that we just always do. You would thing by now that technology would be able to adjust the time on things so I don't have to change the time on the things that are not "smart", like the oven, microwave and the clock by my bed. You would think that all the hours saved between 14 March 2021 and 7 November 2021 (238 in total at least in the US) that I [...] Read more

During the past nine days I have been working on a new spec project that has pretty much taken all my working time. While I know enough of different programming languages to at least get an idea of what they are trying to do, there are only a few I really know well. PHP is getting to be one of them. In nine days, 55 files in 20 folders, just over 2000 lines of code that is a mix of PHP, HTML, CSS and a few INI files, not [...] Read more

The events below happened around two years ago while I was still trying to get to the Pacific Northwest (PNW) from the Chicago suburbia. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Day One After a rough winter and several years of job searching without filling out an application as I can be choosy about what I apply for. None of the ads I have seen have fallen into two categories, either not my thing (not even [...] Read more

People it seems, are creatures of habit. Once they do something a few times they tend to do it more often until they do it on a regular basis. To be clear, I am not talking about habits that are detrimental to our existence, rather, the patterns of things we do mostly without realizing it. Why do we do these things? Because it has always been done that way or maybe it is just something that was picked up along the way. [...] Read more

Space is not cheap but this is ridiculous. “Space is hard.” This has been said many times by many different people but what they are failing to add to it is “Space is expensive, very expensive. Especially for governments.”. This will be a look at five different rockets that are or will be used in the near future for travel beyond earths confines. While there are others that are in the current space race, these [...] Read more

Well, maybe not quite so unplanned While I have been working on various future posts as some of the do require a fair amount of research, I have also been trying to get a little ahead of uploading new posts at the start of the week rather than at the end of the week. I am pushing this for a few reasons, work is starting to pick back up, updating the code for this blog is adding to my time requirements, and since the [...] Read more

Not that we really need more proof it is needed... and maybe it should be even higher... TL;DR: If you want to even think about the pursuit of the "American Dream" and get the US economy moving forward, it has to start changes at the bottom not the top and this needs to be done really soon. Now even. While a Presidential Executive Order does not directly raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, even for federal employees, the [...] Read more