Category: Deep Thoughts

The hotness

My previous manager, now executive director, is a bit of a Michigan fan. Michigan, whose football program is searching for a head coach, has been rumored to be courting Jim Harbaugh with numbers something like $48 million over eight years.

Anyway, the numbers, they are not important. The important thing is that said executive director is enamored with the idea. Also, apparently there has been a banner graphic floating around the Michigan fan sites of a tastefully nude-ish Harbaugh. This graphic is creepy.

I was asked to mash things up to make it both creepier and include my executive director. This is what I came up with:

JVH dreams of Harbaugh
JVH dreams of Harbaugh

The original banner graphic:
mgoblog Harbaugh banner

Dubious victory

Is there really a sense of accomplishment in clearing the “immediate needs” support list just so I have time tomorrow to sit through two classes on secure coding and write my annual self-evaluation?

Definitely unrelated: have I recently grumbled about how much I hate the make-work foo-fah that is the annual self-evaluation? In terms of my actual review and associated merit raise (assuming there are merit raises to be had), it has no weight. I honestly fill these damn things out hoping that I’m not too far above or below where my manager is going to rate me instead of how I actually feel. Because it would be weird to have a giant discrepancy, no?

Also, the goals we set at the beginning of the year (theoretically, but actually sometime near the beginning of the second quarter) always get updated right before the review process starts to match what we actually did during the year. So really the whole thing is a sham.

And stupid.

And an utter waste of my time.

Because when I waste time at work, I want it to be on my terms!

Does not scale

I’m going through the 2+ years of photos and videos I finally offloaded from my phone and came across this one from May 27 of this year. Not sure why I took the picture. I guess I was demonstrating that our toaster’s production capacity does not scale well and we might experience shortages under load.

Insufficient throughput under heavy toasting load.
Insufficient throughput under heavy toasting load.