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When an Award Doesn’t Feel Like an Award

When an Award Doesn’t Feel Like an Award

So, last year I was on a small team at work that won one of my company’s annual recognition awards.  Which should be at least a small ‘Yay!’  But, the circumstances of the win were such that it actually just made me kind of annoyed, and that flipped the switch in my brain that goes into rant mode.  For some reason, the rant that came out was formatted as an explanatory rant to my TaeKwonDo Instructor, even though he had…

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New Site Pages: Stories & FAQ

New Site Pages: Stories & FAQ

Quick update for all those who don’t regularly stare at the top menu-bar of this site: I recently posted up two new static pages for the site! One is a Stories page.  It has a list with links to all of the stories I currently have out and available (all 1 and ½ of them!).  And the other is an FAQ page.  It is currently populated with answers to three questions nobody’s ever actually asked me before! I am doing…

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Light at the End of the Burnout

Light at the End of the Burnout

So, here’s a crazy thing.  I’m writing this on a Wednesday, and as I left work today I was actually feeling a little excited about my job. This shouldn’t be a crazy thing.  I work in Astronomy, as a Scientific Programmer, which is a combination of two things I really, really like and am good at.  However, for a variety of reasons, not all of them to do directly with my job (you can probably guess one or two), the…

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Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

These stories are all apropos of nothing.  I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1  How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this.  It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…

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