Post #251,550
4/10/06 11:45:08 AM
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Finally got the confirmation. It was a tentative "yes" as of last Wednesday, but the one who had to sign the paperwork was out sick Wednesday through Friday. Two months of unexpected time off is tough, and I've still got another week or two to stretch the savings until I start.
I'll be back with some details of the gig after my celebratory lunch I'm about to go treat myself to.
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Post #251,551
4/10/06 11:47:34 AM
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Woot!
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Post #251,553
4/10/06 11:49:25 AM
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whoot!
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Post #251,555
4/10/06 12:00:39 PM
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Big congrats
from one who has "been there, done that" multiple times before.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
[link|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net|contact me]
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Post #251,559
4/10/06 12:16:13 PM
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Congrats!
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Steve
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu]
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Post #251,560
4/10/06 12:17:45 PM
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Congrats! Hope it works out well for you!
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #251,562
4/10/06 12:28:39 PM
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Details
Gig is currently listed at 6 months, but that's phase 1 of a multi-year project at a bank.[0] I'll be Test Coordinator/Project Manager, defining and managing processes to ensure successful outsourcing of non-core business[1] to ASPs. (No, they don't still call them ASPs, that's so last century.) So I'm now another step away from code, and into business process. Which is a good thing.
[0] I've decided I don't want to be too googleable any more.
[1] I've been reading way too many job listings.
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Post #251,635
4/10/06 6:57:40 PM
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Congrats
Time to change your login to something less matching.
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Post #251,649
4/10/06 8:17:35 PM
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Hmm ... good point
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Post #251,567
4/10/06 12:54:19 PM
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message.post("Woot!")
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Post #251,574
4/10/06 1:14:17 PM
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Great! Good news/Bad news ratio in this forum is increasing.
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Post #251,575
4/10/06 1:23:42 PM
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That's great news, Drew!
"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."
By Geoffrey F. Abert
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Post #251,598
4/10/06 2:57:16 PM
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Ambivalent congratulations, then!
Congratulations on the job;
Ambivalence on your continuing suitification. ;-)
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #251,608
4/10/06 3:34:17 PM
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Kewl!
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #251,609
4/10/06 3:38:27 PM
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glad to hear good news, drew
btw, critter has an interview tomorrow. would appreciate some mojo our way.
Stop looking at my signature!
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Post #251,610
4/10/06 3:45:38 PM
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Sure, I'm done with it
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Post #251,646
4/10/06 7:58:11 PM
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Good too hear
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Post #251,674
4/10/06 10:16:46 PM
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Very nice! Best of luck with it!
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #251,705
4/11/06 1:27:35 AM
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!!
good for you. hope it comes together in all the right ways for you.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #251,889
4/12/06 7:13:08 AM
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yay. It's nice hearing good news.
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Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. Do it now.
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Post #251,895
4/12/06 8:26:42 AM
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Woo-ness!
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #252,131
4/13/06 8:50:28 PM
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My wife just asked what you guys had to say
I told her, "Umm, 'Congratulations', what'd you think they'd say?"
"I don't know. I thought you'd have some wierd geek language or something like 'Oinky boinky' or something."
I don't know which is worse: That she could come up with something that bizarre, or that she thinks I would.
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Post #252,132
4/13/06 9:02:40 PM
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Oinky Boinky.
(Well, someone had to say it.)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #252,150
4/14/06 1:46:39 AM
4/14/06 1:48:34 AM
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Uh Oh, She's on to us ;-)
Soooooeeeeeee!
(hit the wrong reply button :-/)
Stop looking at my signature!
Edited by imqwerky
April 14, 2006, 01:48:34 AM EDT
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Post #252,133
4/13/06 9:09:33 PM
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she associates us with pig squealing and sex? whoaa way kewl
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Post #252,228
4/14/06 4:21:31 PM
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On Jay Leno the other night
He said that some scientist has measured a pig's orgasm as lasting 30 minutes.
I still can't get that visual out of my head.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
[link|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net|contact me]
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Post #252,143
4/14/06 12:41:50 AM
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Ask her how she knew the sooper sekrit paswerd
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #252,159
4/14/06 7:37:06 AM
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Oingo Boingo
<grin>
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Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. Do it now.
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Post #252,184
4/14/06 10:09:57 AM
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Bleep, fargle blintz!!!!!
Geekspeak for congratulations!
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #252,208
4/14/06 1:13:21 PM
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Bloog, blag, bloh!
There, always wanted to say it.
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Post #252,210
4/14/06 1:52:51 PM
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A caul gin tons ort
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #252,268
4/14/06 6:45:42 PM
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Eep Op Ork Ah Ah
[link|http://www.blackbagops.net|Black Bag Operations Log]
[link|http://www.objectiveclips.com|Artificial Intelligence]
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Post #252,680
4/19/06 10:48:48 PM
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Awww RIIIIGHT!
Sorry it took so long, but let me be the second-to-last to offer a heartfelt "Woot and Yay!"
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
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Post #252,737
4/20/06 9:31:30 AM
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So.... how was the first few days?
Or don't we even rate, now that you are Empl-yoied.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
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Post #252,763
4/20/06 11:25:16 AM
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Drew, meet deep end
You know the scene in The Practice where the partners come into Tom Cruise's new office one by one and drop off big ol' binders on his desk? I don't have quite that much, and most of the people here didn't use the "this is the most important thing" line. But there is a huge amount of documentation on this project already, plus all the "normal" paperwork associated with working for a financial institution.
I expect it to be two or three weeks before I can make it through a meeting without stopping at least five times to ask for a definition of terms/acronyms.
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Post #252,789
4/20/06 1:38:28 PM
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Well, at least you are able to ask questions.
Its good to go diving into the deep-end once in a while. Its amazing at how much you learn during those days.
I've really only went into the deep-end once in a job. I wish there was a way for me to do that more regularly, I get really heavy amount of "useless information bloat" during those times, it feels good. Well, at least it feels good to me.
I haven't felt glassy-eyed for quite a few years, in relation to IT stuffs. I should push myself to do more in the way of programming.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
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