Everything posted by Doc Holliday
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Romantically Setting Friends or Family up
So my "brother from another mother" has been trying to set me up with a friend of his soon to be wife for about 4 to 5 months now. I've been set up once before, in my early 20's, and it was an awful experience. After that I don't believe in setting people up or being set up. Why do people think they can or should force relationships onto people or even go down that road?
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The stupidest worst selfish asshole things dumbasses do on the road
at 6:30am those lights don't stay red for long going east/west yeah, if there isn't anyone else it's no big deal. when there are multiple other vehicles turning onto the 2222 and going in the opposite direction it's a different story.
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The stupidest worst selfish asshole things dumbasses do on the road
saw a guy this morning stop at every red light on 2222 and then immediately run it like they were stop signs
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Amazon prime recommendations
Haven't read the two pages on my phone and for a military documentary I fully enjoyed the Apache warrior. Great insight into the experience of the 6-6 Apache flight group for desert storm.
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Pollen, Allergies
tell that to my sinuses
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Pope Francis tweets dumb shit
The Augmented Reality platform?
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The Beauty of Space
The gif of the asteroid above makes me think that someone should start a band named Space Dust and have it be all esoteric harmonies with a blend of symphonic dissonance.
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The Beauty of Space
https://www.netflix.com/title/80136447 Secrets of our Solar System
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The Beauty of Space
Netflix and I can go look it up later this evening
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Pollen, Allergies
fuck them today. I can't breathe, sneezing every 30 mins, and fuck them.
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
This will always make me laugh, cry, and yes, he was boss.
- Kayaking
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Study: Following 5 habits extends lifespan 12-14 years on average
inertia is hard when you have a large body of mass trying to stop too. It's how you break, tear, and injure things. stop, drop and roll should only apply to fire drills.
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The Beauty of Space
I was watching a documentary on the formation of our solar system last night, title unknown at the moment. I gleaned a couple of new tidbits. Jupiter caused all sorts of chaos in the early stages of formation, was on a crash course with the Sun, until Saturn popped up and stabilized it's rotation around the sun. The second, more interesting piece, is again the topic of the mystery planet that created the chaos that helped form our planet by sending ice and rock asteroids crashing into the near sun orbits. They eventually caused many of the impact craters on the moon, mars, and earth. The hypothesis was that this planet was impacted by Jupiter's gravitational pull so much so that 10 billion years ago it was sent out into deep space at 1 kilometer/second never to be seen again and with no way to track it down. I think it could be feasible and at this point without extraordinary evidence have to say I doubt it.
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Study: Following 5 habits extends lifespan 12-14 years on average
and what about whiskey, cigars, sex, music, money, blah, blah, blah?!
- The Cook-off Thread
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New building development projects in Austin
I heard recently that some residential development is going into the old first Honda location off of 2222. Anyone know more about it?
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Software - Moving from Waterfall to Agile
I did all of my Agile training with Angela Bruckman. She has some good books, insights, and knows her stuff. If you need training, I highly recommend her.
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100 hour work weeks
I did 80-100 for about 2 months and it burned me the fuck out. I refuse to ever do that again. As soon as I was done and saved the projects and program, as I was the person in charge, I got released. Nice way to say thank you.
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Software - Moving from Waterfall to Agile
Stay in your lane and allow the freedom for your developers, scrum masters, etc. to do their thing. Executives should NOT get involved in the weeds of the product development lifecycle. They need to trust the product owner and team members. Communication is extremely important during this transition. As a leader, focus on your priorities within the methodology and stick to them. Don't go bouncing around trying to change the world, yet. Become successful with your sprints and tracking your burn downs. Then transition into additional nuances of what agile means. My advice is to focus on release management and the subsequent process flow. Once your team(s) are in a good groove, you should be releasing updates as often as every week to maybe once every 4 weeks. Test, test, test and test again. Back-log grooming and understanding what is most impactful to your business (revenue stream, customer base, customer base opinions, etc.) is also vitally important. Don't over promise anything, yet. Invest in post-it notes.
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Best X-Files Episode
I've done that a couple times. Both worth it.
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Snoring / Sleep Apnea / CPAP
yeah, I hated the ramp up and chose to have it disabled. just give me the power, mcfly.
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2018 Texas Baseball Thread
baahhhhh means no
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Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
I bet tardigrades can live there
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The Cook-off Thread
Not only make fun of them, make them go get some, and then make fun of them some more. So many variations of "salty" would be on display.