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Author: fish1964
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We Are All More Grumpy
In a typically insightful article by Om Malik about Skype, he wrote a line that resonated so much with me:
We are all more grumpy. And remember — we all got grumpy about phone companies, and we got Skype — a simple, easy to use and highly useful (if not pretty) product that was worth billions, and beloved by millions.
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Vacation Sunset 3
Oh fine, one more…
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Just Spitballing
I miss the days when I disagreed with Bill Kristol…
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Vacation Sunset 2
And another…
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Vacation Sunset 1
The sunsets on Skaket Beach are awesome and I generally take way too many pictures of them. And they always are better than the pictures. Regardless, here’s one…
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Sandcastles
Low tide at Skaket Beach is great for sandcastles and once in a while a pro shows up. The other day we watched this being made:
Yes, that’s real fire coming out of the dragon’s mouth.
The next day just one of the guys showed up for a quick one:
They post on Instagram: @sandywork60
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Unusual Beach Day
We are on vacation at our favorite place in Cape Cod, Skaket Beach. I’ve posted about this place many times. Pictures never do it justice. The crazy thing about this beach are the tides. At high tide it’s a normal, smallish nice swimming beach. It’s calm and on the bay side where the water is a little warmer.
Low tide is a completely different beach. You can literally walk straight out a mile without getting your knees wet. Yesterday morning, according to Google Maps, I was here:
That’s not bad GPS, that’s accurate. Here’s a picture from that location, looking back towards shore.
See the house we are staying in way in the background? No, I don’t either. But it’s there. So that’s low tide. Nothing unusual there, happens twice a day. At low tide people catch minutes, clams, crabs, harvest oysters, all kinds of things. As you can see, it was a cloudy morning and a storm passed through. There was a lightning concern so they had to clear the beach. Resulting in this odd beach ghost town.
Chairs and umbrellas, just no people.
Another nice thing about being on the bay side is that sharks are typically on the ocean side. Unfortunately, later on this same day we got our first ever water clearing shark warning.
And that would be the same beach at high tide. Basically everything in the first picture is under water.
The shark warming passed, all those folks got back in, and the beach went back to normal. Whatever constitutes normal at Skaket Beach…
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Active Shooter Insurance
That there is such a thing…
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Productionalize
I’ve already hit the grumpy old man stage of my life and nowhere is that more clear than in English usage, grammar and font choices (observant folks will note the lack of Oxford comma). Don’t get me started on less vs. fewer.
I was on a business call today when someone asked if something had been “productionalized“. I work in software, so I understand what they were saying, is it a feature that has been built and is actually in use. But why is that better than “in production”? The latter is clearer and has the benefit of using actual words.
Corporate speak is full of this nonsense. It’s all jargon to make the speaker seem more sophisticated.
What is the client’s ask?
Ask is a verb, not a noun. Seriously, stop it. Why would you say that instead of “what does the client want?”. There’s only one reason, to be pretentious.
And Comic Sans is evil…
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