That was a pretty good film.

So I won at 5*-player Settlers of Catan last night. It was glorious. It started out at 6, hence the asterisk, but one of the players has been ill and was so tired she started crying at the prospect of having to make any decisions, so we left the settlements on the board and played without her.

Haikus for You

Two more tickets closed
I was right as usual.
Root Cause: 17.

Poll: Next entry style.

x-posted to da brog.

Stupid Questions

"What could possibly go wrong?", I asked rhetorically. And as Cloaked user pointed out, it was a question I shouldn't have posed because I damn well should've known that was only an invitation for hell, but I was in too good a mood to notice. All of my monkey klaxons should have been sounding. I knew that most of what I'd be saying at the meetings would be "not supported" but I still had hopes for a decent day.

x-posted to da brog.

Cow-orkers V: Meetings

Attention Corporate Monkey Infidels:

Team meetings, unit meetings, group meetings, area meetings, division meetings, and other such meetings are not, repeat not meant for any sort of discourse. They exist solely to stroke the ego of the numbnuts holding such a meeting so he or she can feel more import.

Unfortunately, most corporate monkeys don't realise this, believing that the meeting is taking place in order to facilitate an exchange of ideas and discussions. This might be the case in a software development meeting but it just ain't the case when the meeting includes all members of a particular corporate hierarchy.

The decisions have already been made in hierarchy meetings. The Death by PowerPoint slides were approved by upper management last week. The purpose of the meeting is one-way communication from up on high down to you fucking peons. Realise this and life becomes So. Much. Easier.

No poll in the blog version.