So..I just took The Political Quiz Show quiz and I got a 10. That means I’m as liberal as Hilary Clinton, and not as liberal as Jesse Jackson or Ted Kennedy. However, Bill Clinton is more conservative than me. That’s interesting. Sadly, I don’t think it’s a very accurate test of my political views since I think on many issues I lean towards the libertarian point of view and they were grossly under represented.

1. The company is failing to keep up on technology.

2. The boss is unethical.

3. There is no room for advancement in a company where the organizational structure is a quantum cloud with the president of the organization as the nucleus.

Wow. So, my brother actually checked out my blog yesterday. That alone is impressive. He also had a good point. I need to tone it down with the work rants. My initial reaction was to remove my name from the site. I’ve decided this isn’t the way to go. I’m not going to hide what I have to say. Hell, I’m a writer, I want more people to read what I have to say…sort of..

The reason for toning it down has nothing to do with my current employers, but rather my search for new employment. If a potential employer does a search and comes across the site, they could very easily be turned away by my rants on work. For this reason I will attempt to curb my enthusiastic and honest rants to a more acceptable and appropriate level.

As soon as I get out of this meeting, I’ll list the better and less emotional reasons about why I want a new job.

It really isn’t just because I work in an environment where the boss learned how to manage from “Office Space”.

I’m a little confused by the price structure here. Usually when you release a new product you lower the prices of the older models so that you can still sell them. So why is the 20GB iPod (which is now discontinued) actually more expensive than the new 30GB model?

And why won’t anyone buy me an iPod?

My boss is a lunatic. On Wednesday and Thursday of last week he was in a mad rush to get functionality into the system. I did. It was working quite right on Monday so I fixed it. This morning I came in and found out he had someone remove it.

Why?

Okay. So I think I got it. The GeoURL will show in realtime as I update my blog at GeoURL. So a little dot appears on the global map. Than you can look with that link below to see who’s near me. Actually pretty cool. I just had to add some meta tags with a latirude and longitude…
Instructions can be found here.

Yeah, so I tweaked the title. Woo woo. An dI submitted to Geoblog…Click to see…something…I haven’t quite figured out what it is yet.

I’m trying to accomplish something, I really am. I’ve been trying for days. Everytime I hit a roadblock I try to get an answer, but it’s very difficult to have a conversation with someone when they don’t respond for hours!
All I need is a couple of, yes/no answers…is that so hard?

I just was perusing the archives, thanks to a friend pointing out where they were (I’ll fix the top link soon), and noticed I never posted the updated location of GonzoCast. Well, point your browser over to To this location. If I’m on, it’ll probably be going and you’ll see the nice SongRequester interface. I’ve got my entire CD collection on there right now…give or take a CD or two.

(literally..I think there are 2 that aren’t on there)

Have fun and don’t hog the bandwidth.

Another morning, another drive hoping I’ll be in a horrible accident and be saved from the torture of work…

During my drive this morning I began contemplating what I want to do and realized I have no idea. My current skill set demands the I do web development and continue on the path to an ulcer and heart disease. However, I don’t think I really want to program for the rest of my life. Actually, I think I’ve always known that. In fact it’s something I fought against most of my life. My brother was a comp sci/math person, as was my dad, and my mom is math. Me…I majored in English. It was a natural progression to go from a degree in English to a career in web development right?

Sure I have done a little with my degree. I’ve coauthored a few plays right? They don’t pay the bills unfortunately. In fact, I’ve only received any amount of compensation from one play, and that would barely buy me a greyhound ticket across the country.

Now that I’m faced with the urgent need to remove myself from this pit of bile and puss I ask, “Do I really want to do this again somewhere else?” The easy answer is no. But, what else am I going to do? A bachelors degree in English doesn’t get you much. I’d love to learn a skill like carpentry but that would mean making no money for a while, and dealing with all the contractor types I’ve had such trouble with.

So what’s a guy to do when he’s got a white collar mind and a blue collar soul?