Same As Everyone
Blog kitt decided around 15:05 on 11 January 2017 to publish this:"But if he’s going to get saved, he’s going to have to do it himself.” She pushed away a betraying tear. Jim took a half step toward her. “He’ll have to do it himself,” she said again, her voice a degree harder to keep him from touching her or saying something soft and consoling. “Same as everyone.”
- Babylon's Ashes, Chapter Thirty-Nine: Naomi
Newest Pet Peeve
Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 21:09 on 10 January 2017Okay, I have a new pet peeve. No, wait, this isn't new, but it is definitely a growing one.
Said pet peeve is when someone brings a laptop into a meeting and taps away on it all during the meeting, ignoring the meeting happening around him. Said tapping is worse when said "him" is a junior developer who needs to hear what is being said in said meeting.
If you attend a meeting, pay attention. If you're not going to or are unable to pay attention, don't come to the meeting. If the meeting is important, but you are dealing with an emergency, let the rest of the people in the meeting know what's going on ("I recognize this meeting is important, but I have 17 people waiting for this hotfix, so I'm going to push it live, and might be distracted briefly, here, wait, let me step outside to finish it."). Don't (DO NOT) spend the meeting working on something else that can wait the f---ing 30 minutes. You aren't going to magically figure out how to embed that f---ing graph while distracted in a meeting you need to be paying attention to what's being said, so f---ing stop trying and pay attention.
I've actually closed the laptops of people sitting next to me in meetings. If you need the laptop to take notes, let everyone know that's what you're doing. Otherwise, leave the thing at your desk.
Right Here
Blog Instead of being asleep at 21:10 on 9 January 2017, kitt created this:Going to leave this right here, just a small note to myself about a heart breaking, how sweet falling in love is, differences in perception, and the art of being alone.
Babylon's Ashes
Book Notes Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 17:19 on 8 January 2017
That this book took me a week to finish would have me concerned about my reading speed, except there are so many good parts, so many relevant parts, in it that I'm okay with my reading it slowly. The arc of the book is predictable, the character development is expected, the action is as imagined. What caught me in this book is the wording, the details, the smaller message, and the underlying lesson in the book.
That, and the relevancy of the book to today's politics. If I didn't know any better, I would swear that Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck KNEW how the election would turn out and published the book as a road map to dealing with the aftermath and provide comfort to rational, good people around. There were so many good quotes from the book, so many places where I had to stop reading and just think about what I had just read, that I highly recommend this book. Problem is, to read this book, you kinda need to read the previous five books in the Expanse series (including the one that just pissed me off).
I have been really enjoying the series (minus that one book), so yeah, have to say read it read it read it, but will temper it with, "If you can get through the previous five."