The saga continues at work. I think I’ve been hired as an employee, but it’s hard to say for sure at the moment. I got to work yesterday to find a couple emails saying I couldn’t be hired until the forms had been received, but they were before the phone-call on Monday evening. I figure one of these days I’ll get something concrete one way or another.
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| Side door Basilica of St. Mary |
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I was thinking of titling the picture off to the right “God and Country - And an alarm system”, but went with the simple description instead. When I spotted it, I had one of those WTF? moments, and then thought to myself that it was sad that churches need security systems, but not all that surprising. Hell, people were stealing chalices and such from churches back when I was in high school, too. It still makes me wish that people sucked less, though.
One other thing of note for today. Apparently I haven’t established my technical bona fides around work just yet. I pointed out an email message saying that things in the printing system on Mac OS X are (or have already, actually) changing in a way that will impact my work. The boss I pointed this out to asked me to jump through some hoops to make sure there’s a concern.
Okay. Fine. I’m the new guy and have to prove myself yet, but it means I’m going to have to spend some time later this morning putting together a sample application so I can say for sure whether it won’t even compile or just won’t work (I’m betting on the former). And then I’ll have to write an email that avoids snarkiness. Well, at least I can still snark here.
- This month’s Twin Cities Photoshop Users Group meeting is tomorrow. I’m wondering whether I’ll go or not. One of the topics is HDR image processing, which interests me, but there’s a distinct possibility I’ll come home from work and not want to leave the house again.
- Apple finally announced WWDC 2006. It’s in August this year. Argh. I had finally gotten used to the change to June/July after years of having WWDC anchored at one end by Mother’s Day, but now they’re cutting into the peak of summer, and as I guess I should have expected, the middle of a Saints home-stand. Damnit, why wasn’t I consulted first?!
- The Minneapolis Better Ballot Campaign is trying to bring us instant runoff voting. Maybe it would help keep us from having elections like last year’s mayoral election where the only choice was between two nearly identical candidates. [metro mpls]
- Bruce Schneier has a good essay on The Future of Privacy. The short version? There ain’t gonna be any. Of course David Brin said as much a while ago, too. I don’t much like these developments, but there’s not much to be done about ’em, I think. Sigh. [schneier]
- Hmm. Want to Be A Freedom Flier and see if you can fly without ID? It would be an interesting experiment if I were flying somewhere I wasn’t in much of hurry to get to. Of course if that were the case, I’d probably be driving. [vowe]