I finished the work I was doing for ICS. (Not to be confused with FreakBoss. This guy pays well and doesn’t scare me.) The cable guy came and fixed my cable box in the bedroom. I should check to see if it’s still getting free HBO. 🙂 I got e-mail from They Might Be Giants […]
Read More Work, cable, and giants: What’s in your wallet?
A lot has happened since the last update, so lemme give you a run down of events… On Thursday, I pretty much took it easy and caught up on some stuff I had to do. I also picked up the apartment a bit. Nothing notable really happened. One of our old Digital UI clients called […]
Read More I’ve been busy since the last update…So I sent FreakBoss his latest revision last night. It’s just what he asked for. The reply I got this morning was: To: “‘Patrick Delahanty’” Subject: RE: Revised design Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:28:34 -0500That’s it – run with it… Why isn’t it done yet… He JUST approves the design and in the same […]
Read More Okay, this guy apparently has real mental problems…I haven’t been remembering my dreams lately, but this morning I remembered dreaming that I was writing HTML to do some silly photo gallery page. I don’t remember what it was for, but it bothers me that I’m doing work in my sleep. …and I’m not getting paid for THAT either! FreakBoss e-mailed this morning […]
Read More I had a dream…Today, I was thinking how this scene from Office Space pretty much sums up my recent life: Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day […]
Read More Office Space quoteI went to F1 Boston with Charlie and his friend Tim today. Greg was supposed to go, but he apparently slept in and refused to answer his cell phone. Anyway, at F1 Boston, people race suped-up go-karts around one of two tracks for 15 minute races. Everyone wears racing suits and helmets. It’s quite cool, […]
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On March 25, 2000 at 11am, my doorbell rang. It was FedEx with a package I had to sign for. I opened it up and found an About.com towel, canvas bag, T-shirt, and hat. …then I went back to bed. Later that weekend, I got a call from Matt, our fearless leader from RivalWorks, with […]
Read More The full story of my time at ExpertCentralNote: This was written years later, but back-dated to the approximate date of the incident. In July of 1996, I worked for The Internet Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a consulting company that built web sites as consultants for companies including Ziff Davis and Comdex. This was the mid-1990s, so this was big business. […]
Read More The Infamous Laptop Incident