Whose roads these are I think I know.
His house is in the gated community, though.
He will not see me shoveling here,
my driveway buried in the snow.
My little boys must think it queer,
to shovel without a snow plow near.
Between the curb and sidewalk gray,
the coldest evening of the year.
They give their kid snow shovels a shake,
to ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the scrape,
of vigilante plows and rakes.
The deficit’s scary, dark and deep,
but I have tax payments to keep.
And tons to shovel before I sleep.
And tons to shovel before i sleep.
Credit to one of my favorite poets for inspiring this.
Fun Stuff
I did a Parody of Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” It’s very geeky, though. 
It’s “50 Ways to Inject Your SQL.” Yes, that’s me singing. Read more…
Fun Stuff, Software Testing, Web Stuff
There are a gazillion reviews for the latest Star Trek movie out there. Here’s mine.
The place they went that no one had gone before? They made a good prequel. Virtually all revisits of classic things (c.f., the Transformers, George Lucas’ revisits to Star Wars and E.T., Batman) are terrible. This one is the best in a long, long line of movies and TV shows. Read more…
Fun Stuff, News
movies, review, star trek
In English, “see” and “look” have very similar meanings, while “oversee” and “overlook” have almost opposite meanings. I find this amusing. It’s even more amusing when it shows up on a resume like the one I saw today:
I overlooked a team of five doing blah, blah, blah…
So, did this person fail to notice a team of five that was doing a lot of important work? Or did he actually mean that he “oversaw” them? 
I also notice that we can have an insight, but not an outsight. We can have an outlook, but not an inlook. We can oversee and overlook, but we can’t undersee or underlook, unless we are perhaps undersea.
Fun Stuff
funny, homonyms, language
I’ve done a bunch of work in online poker lately (for Cigital), and so it’s important for me to improve my game to where I’m not just one of the fish. I was keen to try some of the software that’s out there, but I’m a Mac user. I’m not going to use Windows just to play poker, especially when both PokerStars and FullTilt Poker offer Mac native clients. That’s where Poker Copilot comes in. I tried a couple others, but they seemed too limited, too “beta,” for my purposes. Read more…
Fun Stuff, Hobbies