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NedSpace Makes It Easier To Focus On My Work
For the most part I've been down with working at home because most of my homes had an extra room that I used as an office. But my current tiny little apartment does not; my desk is in the living room. It's all too easy to get districted by some other activity one engages in at home.
My desk at NedSpace is in a proper office that I share with one other quite-experienced coder. I was able to focus all day long. Among other things I added all of Snap, Inc.'s locations to The Global Computer Industry Index:
$ find . -name index.html -exec fgrep -q snap.com {} \; -print
./www/computer/united-kingdom/england/london/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/illinois/cook/chicago/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/new-york/new-york/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/california/los-angeles/los-angeles/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/california/santa-clara/mountain-view/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/california/san-francisco/san-francisco/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/washington/king/seattle/index.html
./www/computer/telecommute/index.html
./www/computer/ukraine/kiev/index.html
./www/computer/ukraine/odessa/odessa/index.html
./www/computer/canada/ontario/toronto/index.html
./www/computer/australia/new-south-wales/sydney/index.html
./www/computer/france/paris/paris/index.html
./www/computer/switzerland/vaud/yverdon-les-bains/index.html
./www/computer/united-arab-emirates/dubai/index.html
./www/computer/china/shenzen/index.html
Tomorrow I'm not going to list any companies instead I'll start working on some - long overdue - automation.
To my great - and endlessly-repeated - dismay, every time I start to write a new Python program I soon realize that I've forgotten it all.
I long ago grew weary of the Python.org tutorial. Perhaps I can find a fresh, new tutorial that doesn't make my eyes glaze over.
Bonita Said I Drink Like A Girl
Whereas she preferred to drink in such a way that she'd really get into her dance moves, on top of a table while wearing a lamp shade.
One of Nedspace tenants is trading an infinite supply of Kombucha for a hot desk. The guy's into marketing.
Kombucha is sad to be good for your dookies. Us old guys gotta be concerned about stuff like that.
While it's not labeled as an alcoholic beverage, the fermentation puts a little alcohol in it. Just a little.
But that "little" is big enough that I'm now drunk.
At work. ;-)
Why Isn't My Head Shot To The Life Of My Bio?
This particular draft of my bio is what I just submitted to Nedspace's members-only Google Group to introduce myself. For the Team page I'm going to go into more detail about my background in drivers and embedded systems development. Aside from OSX those have both been mostly storage and crypto.
Both the markup and the css are valid yet I'm fucked if I know why my photo isn't to the left of my bio.
And yes, Portland Custom Software Development really has always been a "we" and not just an "I". Rod Schmidt was a schoolmate at the Institute, Blacker House Engineering And Applied Science '83.
Oddly at least at the time Caltech did not offer a Computer Science major.
I have Rod's photo but haven't yet cropped and resized it. He'll write his bio after I'm done writing mine.
FBI Agent Backflips at Club, Gun Shoots Man in Leg
Emoji: Hold the Soul
And So It Begins
#include "Hello.hpp"
#include <IOKit/IOLib.h>
int foo()
{
kprintf( "Hello World!\n" );
return 0;
}
Independents Outnumber Republicans in California
California Republicans hit rock bottom
The state that spawned the "Reagan Revolution’’ and Richard M. Nixon just experienced a watershed moment — the California Republican Party was officially relegated to third-party status.
In the culmination of the withered state GOP’s long slide toward near-political irrelevance here, new voter registration data released this week show the once-robust party trails behind both Democrats and “no party preference” in the nation's most populous state. The California Republican Party is now outnumbered by independent voters by 73,000, according to Political Data Inc., which tabulates voter file data from county registrars.
I Didn't Mech Get Sleep Last Night
Not because I had to get up early but because I woke up hours before my alarm yet could not get back to sleep.
So I got to work real early.
A little over a month ago I kicked coffee cold-turkey. For a month I had really bad headaches, for two weeks I had really bad nausea.
Thursday of last week my witch doctor advised me to start drinking coffee again: "You don't have to tell me twice".
This because I often experience great weariness despite being well-resulted.
I just signed a one-year lease for a permanent - that is, personal, just for me - desk at a downtown Portland co-working facility.
Co-working is all the rage these days. We Work and this one other I happened upon are likely venture funded but the privately-held Nedspace is far better than we work.
It's on the eleventh floor of the Union Bank tower on Broadway - the main drag through downtown. I learned the hard way that I have yet to overcome my fear of heights. Not wanting to make my fear worse I carefully, very slowly reached my hand out then touched the lobby window yet remained unconvinced that its glass was really there.
I'll even have a receptionist.
#!/bin/sh
# ip_addr=10.74.105.152
# ip_addr=10.74.105.207
id_addr=10.74.105.155
