Sunday, March 24, 2013

No Soup for You!

Can I have some vegatable soup, well-done?Recently I have been finding myself becoming increasingly excited about developing software. I was noodling on the root cause of this a bit and I am not sure that I can identify that. But it makes me quite happy nonetheless, so I am not going to miss out on the forest for the trees.

I usually have one or two outside-of-work software-related projects that keep me busy. Most of these are small one-offs that are worked on for “technical vitality” – you know, acquiring enough practical development experience in a technology so that you can at least put it on the resume and answer the resulting interview questions about a technology without looking like a fool.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

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(There is a potentially disturbing image in this post. Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.)

Yet Another Sign of the Apocalypse? As detailed in this piece at Fox News, apparently the fashion rage nowadays is for women to undergo surgical alteration of their feet so they may, get this, better fit into high heels. These “alterations” include shortening of toes, collagen injections to provide better sole cushioning,  and even complete removal of pinky toes. For that last enhancement, I guess you could say that this little piggy went to market….and never came back.

(As an aside, what is the probability that Your Faithful Servant could compose a blog post about “feet” and not have that post at least partially rooted around Rex Ryan’s wife? Sorry – I consider myself a pretty open-minded dude - but that is just some weird stuff. To each his own, I guess.)