Monthly Archives: July 2009

I joined up a few days ago. Today I received a letter from Jerry’s dad which I’d like to share with you because, well, it says it all: Hello Field Marshal, Again, congrats on your choice to join one of … Continue reading →

I am enjoying the heat. This week it’s been in the mid to upper 90s. Sure, it gets hard to even sit without drawing a sweet… but I am tired of all the people bitching about it. Seriously, every Facebook … Continue reading →

Recent things going on round up: The train to and from work has been running slow because of the heat, or so we’re told. I know rails can contract and expand as does anything in temperature changes but wow. I … Continue reading →

From my experience, head hunters don’t seem to know the difference between words like familiarity and expertise, PHP versus Ruby on Rails; I could go on and on. It leads me to believe that some of them really just look … Continue reading →

Someone went through the effort of writing an entire database abstraction layer. Kudos? Nope: eventually I came across regular expressions and string replaces instead of binding parameters in their “parameterized query” scheme. So disappointing. Honestly, I remember a mistake I … Continue reading →

My commute to work today was largely uneventful except two rather strange and funny things I saw. The first was the King Street Station tower’s clock going back and forth in time. It’d go back about an hour and then … Continue reading →

The title gets released to me July 29th. I paid a car off. It felt good to send in that final payoff payment! Yeah! And they thought they’d get another year’s worth of interest out of me. Somehow I feel … Continue reading →

Okay, it’s been a while since I’ve done a list type sound off: The city is full of smells but it generally smells bad. The smell of ass is a repeat offending odor. People complain about everything even about things … Continue reading →

Recently I acquired michaelhradek.com which makes me happy the other Michael Hradeks I know of didn’t snatch it up first! Let’s see, there’s the surfer variant, the violinist, the guy on Facebook sucking down a beer bong… Not really sure … Continue reading →

My first week at my new employer has gone relatively smoothly. I’ve gotten used to commuting on the train. My days have normalized and they start at 6:30 in the morning. I try to leave the house between 7:15 and … Continue reading →