Hump Day Blues
February 1st, 2006I'm in a foul mood today. What good is having a blog if you can't rant a bit?
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- To doctor X: We had an appointment at 11am. You called and asked us to change it to 10am. We were your first patient of the day, we came at 10 and you didn't see us until well after 11. There is a special circle of hell reserved for you and they have nothing to read there but three year old copies of NewsWeek.
- To the girl next to me at lunch: You sent back your lunch because you weren't satisfied with the tomatoes. You ordered a dish with raw tomatoes on February first! What kind of tomatoes did you think you were going to get?
- To our local librarian: You close at 5pm on weekdays! Do you think no one both reads and works?
- PHP Flash Cards: Memorizing trivia with flash cards is not "honing your skills" its "cramming for a test." (see expert and novice programmers) On the other hand, writing a PHP flash card application IS honing your skills.
- To the World Economic Forum:
long political rant self censored. I did promise no more politics here.
</rant>
I guess thats all the rant i have left in me. Back to work.
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February 1st, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Well, there are blog posts that you can be proud of and there are those that you aren't. Sometimes the most interesting ones are the the ones that make you nervous when you go to hit publish. This is probably one where I should have hit delete instead of publish. Its a few hours later, i've eaten and am in a much better mood and I don't think this is one of the ones I'm going to be proud of. I'm tempted to hit delete now, but I think that is a bad habit to get into. Welcome to my blog, where there are good days and bad.
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:56 am
In the sense of supportive ranting...
Also have a similar Doctor Y, who is (at least predictably) 30 minutes late on every appointment. Considering what they get paid, it's one of those things that makes fathers push their kids in that direction (vs. becoming a nerd, for example).
The only problem there in Europe (and similar applies to legal professions which are perhaps more respectable here that in the US) - your education doesn't travel well so becoming a Doctor in Switzerland pretty much means you're staying in Switzerland for life - even up the road in Germany they won't let you practice without localized training.
But on the subject of ranting, thing there isn't enough of it on blogs. The medium (at least in nerd circles) tends to force everyone in a squishily "nice" direction. Where some of this "Long Tail", "Web 2.0" stuff is concerned, think 2006 should be the year where the "Early Adopters" being with the 50 points where the technology they adopted sucks then rave about the one thing is does well.