Bryan Strawser

‘I don’t want to lose this life’. As countryside activists prepare to march on Londonü there is uncertainty about how they would handle a ban on hunting. [BBC News | UK]

The Rolling Stones’ Business Model [Slashdot]

Stumbled. Michael Barrish: “So I stumbled on some photos on the Internet of my ex-girlfriend having sex. This was on a porn site. I visit porn sites.” (30 words) [dive into mark]

Now, time to play Battlefield 1942!

Got my midyear review last night (at a bar, no less) in Minneapolis (a new venue for reviews for me) – it went very well.  I tend to get pretty introspective after performance reviews, so I’ll be spending the next few days processing the feedback and thinking about what to do next….

So far, I’ve had reviews in my current position at:

• Columbia, Maryland – Columbia Inn Bar


• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (3 times) – “The Falls” Restaurant at the Cuyahoga Falls Sheraton


• Philadelphia, PA – Regional Office


• Minneapolis, Minnesota – Marriott City Center Bar


• Waltham, Massachusetts – Westin Hotel & Conference Center Bar

See the theme? 😉

At the Minneapolis airport waiting on my flight to depart..  hanging out in a cubicle area with lots of space, telephones, and AC power..  The airport here has airport wide wi-fi access which is pretty damn slick.. $7.95 for unlimited access for the day, so I’m taking serious advantage of this..

Picked up some earphones for $4.95 at a shop here and listening to streamed MP3s from my server at home.. pretty friggin awesome….

And we wonder why most governments never get anything done…

Phil Windley uses his weblog to get the truth out.  It’s funny and profoundly sad to see how government works.  Everyone I know that works in government knows that the civil service system is fatally flawed.  It makes it impoosible to fire people.  That in turn results in people that don’t follow directives.  It also makes it extremely hard to hire experienced people from the outside instead of promoting average producers from inside the system.  One story I heard recently was how an irate civil service employee used a complaint to their congressman to prevent the elimination of a multi-million $$ a year project that was an absolute disaster.  Of course, that probably is something we could live with under normal circumstances, but this happened to be part of our national defense against terrorism.  No wonder that Bush wants to eliminate civil service rules for the homeland security department.  On that, I agree with Bush. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]