beansprouts – (pl. n.) tiny thoughts from the brain of a Tinabeans
It’s been 4 months since I started work at Fog Creek Software, and boy have I learned a lot. Among the things I have learned are: Designers ain’t got nothing on engineers when it comes to “agile.” People can always tell when you are trying to impress them. You can practice foaming milk for lattes…
Today, I woke up confused. Something I had read the previous night had been bothering me. It wasn’t clear what it was until I had fully transitioned into wakefulness; then I realized that while I lay there trying my hardest to start the day, a man in Oregon was patiently waiting to end his life….
I’ve been thinking a lot about these two guys lately, as I’ve been rather busy in the past months trying to acquire a lot of them both. I’ve come to the conclusion that, in order to be happy, I must have an equal balance of both. In school, and this school in particular, we are…
I was pondering whether to write this post, for fear that it would turn into yet another plaintive whine littering the Internets, but you know what, I think this is important enough to whine about. So here goes: I just spent this entire evening of 5 hours doing nothing but sifting through the Internets instead…
In my forever ongoing education as an artist/graphic designer, I made yet another realization today. I guess I’d known this for quite some time but hadn’t really articulated it. Basically, at some point in the last 5 years, I made the transition from spending the majority of my time experimenting and figuring out how to…