in the beginning...

For your afternoon enjoyment

Since this page has become a new-found source of entertainment for some of my co-workers....

Happy Monday Jamey! ThunderCats Ho!

Tough Times at University of Texas and the rest of the world

In response to one of my prior posts a friend sent me this article which I found interesting, and thought you might as well.

My thoughts....

Nuthin' wrong with a little hemmoriage

All right a plethra of updates...
Contrags to Andy!!
I welcomed a new Best Buy to the neighborhood by picking up a new PC
I'm off to the twin cities for an extended haloween weekend, starting on Friday.
Details....

ISU in BW

ISU was mentioned in last week's Business Week. Unfortunatley it was not the sort of coverage we'd like to see... Ah well what can you do, except write them a letter since they got it wrong, we'll see if they publish it...

So I went to do my almost weekly windows update session today, and again I sit here and wonder... Why the hell does it take so long for it to install after it downloads. I mean come on, I could pratically install Office in the time it takes to get these little 4MB of updates installed. Geez!!

... It's finally done =) ... I have to reboot =(

up up and away

On my way out of town on Monday I sat in a window seat and watched the 3rd largest city in the country shrink beneath me, it was quite amazing how small the world's tallest building looks from 30,000 feet. And you get quite a unique perspective on the sunrise from way up there, it was neat to see it creep slowly over Lake Michigan.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

This weekend I'm returning to Iowa (second time since leaving) it's my grandma's birthday on sunday. I'll probably be in Iowa City on Friday (Happy Birthday Melissa!) and Ames on Saturday (and LaPorte City on Sunday for that matter). If you're around and want to hang out let me know.

As for the more details requested about last weekend...

It's the End of the World as we Know it

and I feel fine.

Cubs Win.
Red Sox Win.

The Big Blue is falling... The Big Blue is falling...

We had a meeting at work yesterday, and one of the management commented on a statement made by our CIO a couple of weeks earlier. He likened the IBM of today to the GM of 15-20 years ago. Becoming large and sluggish, he predicted that with in 5-10 years they will be so bogged down with debt and size that they will be unable to adapt and compte in the market - specifically consulting and BPO (Business Product Outsourcing).

The Truth About Consultants

Once upon a time, a machine broke and nobody in the company knew how to fix it...