This afternoon, Bill, Matt, and I were reminiscing about performance testing tools.

Ah, preVue-X. Performix? Mercury and Segue, sure. But the RadView tool... QALoad is... Load Test did... Which one? Whatever Rational’s calling it now... Yadda yadda.

How many kinds of geek does that make us?
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Speaking of Al Lewis....

SHADOW:What's your secret for success, for a long, healthy, happy life? LEWIS:My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means. (Laughs) I'll tell you what my secret is. It took me a long time to find this out. Find something that you absolutely love to do. Not you like it, or it's pleasant, something that you absolutely love to do. And along the way, if you're lucky, get to love the way you do it. Then you're home free. And you're looking at a man right now. I got a spine made out of stainless steel. Nothing shrinks it, nothing, nothing. Because I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours. But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it. Albert Einstein, one of my favorites, said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." And if that cat say it, it's good enough for me.

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Thursday Roy and I had a rollicking argument about the war. We argued for what seemed like two hours, until 8:00pm, when we left work. Fun stuff. He pulled Al Lewis’s radio show on me; I pulled Michael Novak’s arguments before the pope on him. In the end, I got him to admit the possibility of just cause, after which we agreed that our thresholds for the prudential judgements of last resort and relative benefit-to-harm ratio differed.

I love arguing with the guy; he’s just so quiet about things usually and so agreeable, that when he has a firm opinion on things, he goes on such a roll. I suppose the same thing applies to me.
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