Crap. It's happening again...

I learned this week that I will be part of a company-wide computing security team that will create policies and procedures for keeping Cardinal Health computers protected from viruses and vulnerabilities. So much for staying under the radar.

Death of a friendship

My riding buddy is trying to kill me. He had me riding at the very top of my performance curve tonight. He was soo fast tonight that I had to take point several times just so that I could set a slower pace! I told him at dinner that after I finished eating his wife's cooking, he and I were OVER. YOU HEAR THAT STEVE?!? O.V.E.R.!!

Btw, when are you going to put up our stats?

The Nerdy Manifesto...diatribe...whatever

My last post has stirred my nerd-rage. GRRRRR!

The 2000s were supposed to be ours, the rise of a nerd nation. We saw Bill Gates, Berkley and Linux Tovalds make powerplays that positioned us as the cornerstones of civilization. We watched as our math and technology skills became mission critical to running the entire world. Y2K was our rebirth; the phoenix rose from the flames of destruction.

And then. In swoops this damned, dirty "geek" to steal it all away from us. With their anime hair and their G4 TV shows and their "are you one of us" quizzes. NO, you are NOT. It takes a lifetime of hard work and social-awkwardness to be this nerdy, GODDAMMIT. Yet, they get the credit and the glory for the benefits of technology because they seem "cool". Freaking paper-phoenices. It's decision time pasty-faced peoples of the world! Are you geek or ARE YOU NERD?!?

When you decide that you are ready, it's time to send a few CAPS-LOCK'ed emails.

Geeks are such posers

What very little respect I had for facebook just dissipated.

WooHoo!

My company utilizes the concept of Management-By-Objectives (MBO) in calculating end of the year raises. The more of your manager assigned objectives you complete, the more percentage of your raise you get. On percentage based objectives, if you go above and beyond your target percent, you get a percent of the additional percentage above and beyond your initial 100 percent completion percent..if what I just said was clear, you probably mis-understood me..

On the numbers spreadsheet we get every couple of weeks, I've met most of my numbers, but have been behind on one metric for which I had resigned myself to losing out on 20% (yes, TWENTY PERCENT) of my pay increase. Last night, as I lay my head down to sleep, I had an ...

... moment that their CALCULATION WAS ALL WRONG!!! WooHoo! I called my manager and he agreed that the calculation didn't have the necessary bounds to be an accurate representation and now I am 10% over my target percent!

SHOW ME 'DA MONEY!!!

25 (or 27) miles is more fun with friends

I've previously cycled the Clarksville to Trenton KY 25 mile route by myself. I never realize how lonely the back roads of Kentucky could be until I rode with my team of three tonight. It was a beautiful, casual, no stress, sunset ride across rolling Kentucky farmland. It was the first time in quite a very long time where nothing else mattered, not work, nor chores, nor email, or cell phones, or TV. Nothing else mattered except sharing something truly beautiful with friends. I'm glad you were there!