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Feb. 5th, 2002
Watch Out!
Feb. 5th, 2002 09:25 pmA rare personal post. Unusual.
I am just furious today. Have been for a couple of days. It arises for a number of reasons. I had a conversation with a recruiter recently that I perceived as rude, although I suspect objectively it wasn't. My USB KVM is flaking out, and I can't get the keyboard to stay functional for more than a couple of minutes when I'm switched over to the Mac. Faulty hardware really enrages me. I'm somewhat overcommitted on time this week, in large part because of some family issues which I am not going to talk about. I've mentioned them in a comment somewhere, if you're insanely curious, but there's other stuff stacked on top of what I said there.
My schedule, such as it is, has felt muddy since I went back to Cape Cod for my birthday. I had a pretty good time, but I don't like the effect being away from here had on me. It's not about California, it's about time and the imposition of people on my solitary life. (See above re: overcommitment vis a vis time.)
Anyway. The long and the short of it is that 95% of everything around me seems inescapably stupid. Interestingly, the stupidity that pisses me off isn't technical stupidity; people aren't seeming irredeemably dumb on that level. Rather, every time I see someone say something socially inept I froth a little inside.
I've been trying to hammer out a compromise regarding an issue of procedure on an obscure meaningless little gaming bulletin board. Someone stomped away from the process so I limbered up my leet people skills and worked out a solution. Part of the solution involves a trivial, meaningless option in how certain proposals can be seconded. Someone else decided to put their back up and take a stand against this option. I exploded (in private, on the moderator subboard). I don't have the patience for it right now.
I spent most of today submerging myself in PHP and mysql. Technical is good; reading documentation doesn't subject me to people being foolhardy about people.
Yeah, I'm an arrogant fuck.
I am just furious today. Have been for a couple of days. It arises for a number of reasons. I had a conversation with a recruiter recently that I perceived as rude, although I suspect objectively it wasn't. My USB KVM is flaking out, and I can't get the keyboard to stay functional for more than a couple of minutes when I'm switched over to the Mac. Faulty hardware really enrages me. I'm somewhat overcommitted on time this week, in large part because of some family issues which I am not going to talk about. I've mentioned them in a comment somewhere, if you're insanely curious, but there's other stuff stacked on top of what I said there.
My schedule, such as it is, has felt muddy since I went back to Cape Cod for my birthday. I had a pretty good time, but I don't like the effect being away from here had on me. It's not about California, it's about time and the imposition of people on my solitary life. (See above re: overcommitment vis a vis time.)
Anyway. The long and the short of it is that 95% of everything around me seems inescapably stupid. Interestingly, the stupidity that pisses me off isn't technical stupidity; people aren't seeming irredeemably dumb on that level. Rather, every time I see someone say something socially inept I froth a little inside.
I've been trying to hammer out a compromise regarding an issue of procedure on an obscure meaningless little gaming bulletin board. Someone stomped away from the process so I limbered up my leet people skills and worked out a solution. Part of the solution involves a trivial, meaningless option in how certain proposals can be seconded. Someone else decided to put their back up and take a stand against this option. I exploded (in private, on the moderator subboard). I don't have the patience for it right now.
I spent most of today submerging myself in PHP and mysql. Technical is good; reading documentation doesn't subject me to people being foolhardy about people.
Yeah, I'm an arrogant fuck.