Sunday, December 29, 2002|
small circles The tech community in Seattle can seem pretty small at times. I keep meeting people that were once removed from my current set of friends. Either they worked with them, or they placed them, or we have common beer drinking friends. It can be pretty amazing. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. In fact, I should be pleased that I'm making connections. It's actually quite useful, especially when we go through the list of people we know or have worked with, and have the same opinions as to who was worthwhile, who was too much of a cowboy, and who was the drunk. Well, if not useful, it was fun, in a schadenfreude kind of way. I just wish the Seattle high-tech scene would pick up a little bit. I'm tired of having so many unemployed friends. I'm tired of working on boring but necessary things.
I wish I could get paid to program in Python or UserTalk. I had a brief chance to do some UserTalk contracting while I was unemployed, but for some reason or another (I suspect I dropped the ball) it never happened. |
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spaceward ho ho ho So, we're half way through the holiday season, and I'm tinkering with another theme. I've also gotten slightly obsessed with the OS X native Spaceward Ho! 5.0. I was addicted to it back when I had a Quadra and ran OS 7.5.x.
Spaceward Ho has that addictive "just one more turn to see what happens" quality that games like Civilization and SimCity have. I suppose that's what gets people into the Sims, but it never got to me like it seems to get to other people. |
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