Complaint Dept.
Hello people,
I’ve been notified (by several people even!) that I should update my blog. Ok. First I’ll make an excuse: I don’t blog at work.
Why not? Because I signed a “work-for-hire” agreement, as is custom for all software development positions, that basically says anything I produce on the company’s dollar (equipment or time) is their property. I’m not particularly worried about them enforcing this because blogging isn’t critical to what they do, and my boss is amazingly cool and laid back. However, I follow the contract as a matter of courtesy and professionalism to them. I suggest you do the same if you’re in a similar position. Feel free to ignore my words because I Am Not A Lawyer.
So why else haven’t I been writing? I’m a pretty private person. Unlike most bloggers, I don’t like sharing personal information on the internets. I have this tingling feeling at the back of my skull that all of this obscenely private information that everyone writes online is being kept somewhere, waiting to eternally mock them, or otherwise bite them in the ass.
Aside from all that, I will say a few things. I visited family in the north bay, they seem to be doing well.
Went to the CD release party for Monkey. Yeah, people still make ska music. These people are pretty darn old school about it, too. That’s refreshing, along the lines of some of my favorite older CDs and tapes.
Rachel and I went to the Mystery Spot, which is pretty screwy. My pet theory is that it’s explained by Einstein’s Gerenal Relativity. That is to say, the gravity spot is caused by a large mass under it. The real question then becomes what kind of dense, massive material is under the Mystery Spot. That’s geology, and I don’t know geology. I can pretend, and say it might be iron from a fault line, but that would have to be a very large column of iron straight up from the core of the planet to produce that small of a field. Maybe super-dense asteroid?
That’s all for now.
June 8th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
I find two things hilarious about this post. 1) You use the word “internets” like the george bush from SNL. awesome. 2) You say you don’t like sharing personal information on these suppopsed “internets”, right above a post that contains your address, of all things.
September 28th, 2005 at 7:41 am
i think that mystery spot is an optical illusion. they built the thing funny so that it looks like stuff is defying gravity, when in reality it just tricks you into thinking it is. when walking through the little shack, i got super dizzy and disoriented. my theory on this is that people who have a good eye, such as artistically inclined folks, have a brain that does not like to look at such a glaring illusion. any takers? i keep wanting to test this to see how many people get as dizzy and weird inside the place as i do.