Running as Root

So I'm actually using my old iPod again rather than using the ultra-fantastic Pandora (highly recommended by the way) and I had an idea for a feature it should have. Keep in mind I'm several generations behind on my personal media player so this may be in the current iteration. What I'd like to be able to do is suspend shuffle mode, listen to a few songs by the artist that came up in shuffle, and finally resume shuffle mode. That's it. I can do this but it requires navigating through multiple menus. Not so convenient.

I just don't feel funny this week.

Before I started putting the comic directly on my blog, I had a few other episodes of Flat Organization. Since many people never click through to my BitStrips page I'm going to lump all of the "missing" episodes into this one post. I could post them individually but that seems more annoying and like it would require more effort. Apologies to those that have already seen these.

Unfortunately this week's comic just feels like I'm getting more and more bitter. Maybe the next one will be funny.

There are quite a few little cameos in The Incredible Hulk but the one I was happiest at having spotted was Rickson Gracie. Remember in Portuguese that 'R' sounds like an 'H', so it's pronounced "Hickson." Unfortunately they've listed him as an Akido instructor despite the fact that he's a bad ass in the family business of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I know it doesn't sound like it, but that's a colossal fuck up in martial arts land. Besides that it's a fair movie but after all the rumors about heavy editing changing the nature of the film I'd really like to see what the original "Norton" version was like. Maybe 25 years from now we can have 8 versions of it like Blade Runner.

Yeah, I'm not doing so well at sticking to the new "publish once a week" experiment. I either need a new rule allowing overflow or need to be more willing to stockpile these crappy jokes.

While I'm going to try and publish once a week, I have a hard time sitting on finished comics. I just can't resist the temptation to do two this week.

I switched jobs recently and although the current company used to do daily stand up status meetings ala Scrum/XP/Agile/Wagilefall, they had stopped at some point. As near as I can tell, they stopped because they couldn't keep the meetings short and on track. I expressed to my manager(s) that I thought it'd be great to start doing them again and lo and behold we had one on Monday.

Of course, the first issue that came up was the notion of the correct time. Inevitably when you try to start a meeting "on time" you get bogged down with the fact that no one thinks they're late because their clock says they're not. In the past I've used web based atomic clocks, but I'm now convinced that anyone planning to start meetings on time has to invest in a digital clock that synchronizes with the official time. I further suspect that anyone thinking that the people they work with are too mature to have this "argument" is probably wrong. We also haven't settled on the "punishment" for being late. I'm a big fan of cash fines though.

Bitstrips now has real RSS feeds. I've made a Feedburner feed for Flat Organization that points to the Bitstrips feed for the comic, if anyone is interested.

At the same time, I've added a feeds page to this blog with nearly all of my available RSS feeds, including a new super feed (made with Yahoo! Pipes) with everything in it to save people the trouble of subscribing to everything individually.