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Denver Comic Con: Class Acts

Note: this post is almost as much a tale of classy people as it is an open letter to Ted concerning how my nerd is stronger than his nerd.  He does still have a Tesla, however, so I’m starting from … Continue reading

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Nerd Cred

I missed a few points for actually having enough social skills to get married.  Otherwise, it seems about right.

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High Frequency Trading and its Irrational Defense

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/michael-santoli/-irrational–sense-of-fairmess-fuels-furor-over-high-frequency-trading-160331096.html High frequency trading has been pulling the equivalent of an “Office Space” scam on the markets since, well, the day after electronic markets were opened in 1999.  The recent backlash by the general public takes me a bit by … Continue reading

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Using XP? After today, it’s virtual XP or not at all

That is, if you’re smart, because today is THE DAY.  Nevermind this advice on upgrading.  If you haven’t already or your enterprise hasn’t already, you’re probably not going to upgrade because: You’re a Luddite who is just now getting to … Continue reading

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I’m a Shill

And I think these guys are hiring.  Just sayin’.

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This startup didn’t exactly ditch Amazon Web Services

  No matter what the headline says.  What they did say, without saying it, is that you really need to understand your workloads before just slapping them in a public cloud.  Keep that in mind.  Know thy workloads. Sounds like … Continue reading

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why we won’t be painting over this – BAGBY  BEER CO.

http://www.bagbybeer.com/2/post/2014/01/why-we-wont-be-painting-over-this.html Fuck Cancer.  Long Live Kenny. That is all.

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The Console Living Room

The Internet Archive now has a “Console Living Room” where you can play classic console games in a browser?   I’ll see you in June.

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Book Review: Phoenix Project

The Kinzua Kid is a Blue Collar IT guy, through and through; always has been, always will be.  That’s why I generally eschew management philosophy books and complicated process models that fail to account for the way people actually, well, … Continue reading

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Junk Mail Is Fun

Somehow I’m on Techgtarget’s spam list and this is what graced the inbox this morning: Gartner research suggests that any data center site that is more than 7 years old is obsolete.  Whether true or false, constructing a new data … Continue reading

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