Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

Do not sit down in this motel – The Erectus Motel

You are liable to get something up your arse.

Let me analyze the genesis of this. 

  • someone came up with this idea
  • they thought it was a great idea
  • none of their friends told them it was a  bad idea
  • none of the sign contractors told them it was a bad idea

Who knows? maybe they do get alot of business?

A brief primer in Brazillian motels.   People many times live with their parents until 30 years of age because of the relative amount they earn and how much a house costs.  Thus they need a place away from parents to have sex.  They are well appointed places.

 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

DFW Dallas Fort Worth Airport waiting in the cushy room near gate B20

I am back in southern Brazil and passed through Dallas Fort Worth airport.   I had an 8 hour wait before my flight between Dallas and Sao Paulo.   I really needed to find a nice comfortable place to rest if not sleep.  Most airport lounge chairs are pretty unconfortable by design to keep the homeless out of them.  However since you have to have a ticket to get into the gate areas one must conclude they mean the temporarily homeless also known as "a traveler".

I went to one of the information counters manned by the old folks at DFW.  The guy there mentioned there was a lounge with some really comfortable chairs.

 

I was remiss in my photography.  What you do not see clearly is that there are some full on permanently reclined chairs in this paradise for travelers.  Nonetheless you can see all the chairs are quite adequately stuffed and easy on the butt.  I got several hours on the verge of sleep here and felt compelled to share the secret!  Now stay out so there is room for me the next time I need to visit it.  See you there!

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Killer Zits and Oversized Thumbs

When I was young my father was 325lbs and no one to be trifled with.  When I was 16 and not small myself he suspected me of breathing the Columbian airs.  He literally picked me up by the hair with one arm.   I had alot of hair at the time as I was in the midst of my Jim Morrison look .    I was my father son and thus  had alot of testosterone that would result in marble sized zits on my back.  Occassionally for amusement he would take his oversized thumbs and pick one of this painful killer pimples on my back.   It would basically feel like a pair of industrial sized vice grips biting onto my back.  Yes this is what passed for humor in my family.  When I think back I laugh in nostalgic memory of a better time in the late 70's when our culture was not so nearly uptight and not yet gaming each other like dumbass penquins that constantly steal each others nest rocks and somehow imagining that GNP is being created.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

How to get paid to write open source software

— Video Went AWOL —

Val Henson describes her career in open source

  1.  Linux system programmers are in short supply
  2.  If you are vaguely competent and get some experience you become employed for life
  3.  Not all Linux programmers are idealists.  Now days it is a for profit motivation.
  4.  her pay profile progressed very well. Started at 150,000 per year in 1999 and doubled after 10ish years.
  5.  Telecommuting seems to be the end of the evolutionary progression
  6.  She travels all over the world to visit other programmers. 
  7. She thinks San Diego has the best weather in the world.  ( she obviously has not considered South America in that calculation )
  8. What would Val do?  If you will not get fired then why not do it ? 
  9. She knows developers who never leave the house
  10. Hours are flexible
  11. its not a 9-5 job.  She does not know anyone who does not care.  Hard to make it on 40 hours per week.
  12. Side effect is you only end up dealing with positive motivated people
  13. Open source is an enabling technology – good way to think about how and why a company would hire a person to help with open source from their point of view
  14. You have to be able to admit you do not know something.  ( duh!)   Linuxchix
  15. There are some famously rude people in the Linux community
  16. Careful with email!
  17. Some people get into open source by working on patches but much better to get a framework such as a job that gets you in contact with other people doing open source.
  18. Should be able to fairly quickly get into a position where you can telecommute 

Val Henson on LinkedIn

Vals blog

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago