from the rest of the world, based on a simple premise:
James Caan = sucks
Michael Caine = dude, intense!
yep, Caan, or as he prefers to be called, James Charlatan, is a complete faggot. I hate him. My hate can only be measured as an inverse relationship for my appreciation for Michael Caine. His multi-facetted roles and general coolness derived from NOT being a shitty actor (a.k.a James Caan) bring me joy.
So, to summarize,
reiterating that Steril sounds exactly like Nine Inch Nails.
Exhibit A: Underneath the Skin.
As the more observant visitors may have noticed, I've overhauled my portfolio. The reason: I was hunting for a new job. Luckily my work paid off considerably, on November nineteenth, I started a new job.
The company is called ByLedge, its a next-gen search-engine. I get to nudge elbows with some of the most dynamic personalities in the industry, including the former chief engineer of Lycos, the inventor of PostGres and a cadre of MIT graduates and professors. You'd think I'd be intervenously
injecting a cocktail of Pepto-Bismol and Muscle Relaxers to stifle the intimidation. However, to my surprise, they seem to genuinely tolerate me and can put up with my myriad inadequacies. Truthfully though, they welcome me and love my work thus far.
Without breaching the non-disclosure agreement, I'll try to provide some detail of my role in the company. They hired me as a frontend/web developer. Initially, I believe they expected to have two seperate positions, one for the css/templates, and another for the business logic. However, I convinced them that I can juggle both, as the line between the two is blurry. So this encapsulates everything from converting mockups to templates/css to writing data-structures to serialize web-services. Our designer wants a real web 2.0 experience, so a majority of my work involves AJAX, (I finally wrote a robust Ajax handler that uses JSON effectively). Also, I am programming in JAVA for the first time in a professional environment when I help out the back-end developers.
I am in a new position, (i.e. I'm not replacing anyone), thus I have full autonomy to design the architecture of the front-end. Unless I'm working for a consulting firm, this is a rare opportunity. So in a few years, all these devs are going to be griping about how archaic or inefficient MY framework is, instead of the other way around. Honestly, its pretty awesome.
I'm getting paid considerably higher than any other job I've had, thus I've been splurging on model tanks. Its kinda funny, since I have very few expenses in other aspects of my leisure(?), I feel a consumeresque reward purchasing these kits. Whether I'll build them, its another story.
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