Naw, I don't like to indulge...too much ;)

My friend, ugg_the_wandere, apprently taking some cue from me, inquired about readers' favourite SF restaurants.

I named almost 40 dining establishments where I've partaken of the cuisine.

Man, don't I feel like yuppie?

I think I've worn leather pants or my kilt to 1/2 of the shi-shi-foo-foo establishments, so hopefully I maintain some cred in thine eyes. :-)

I'm sure pleny of you have something to say about the following statement

There was a roundtable convened last month consisting of a bunch of economic "experts" to discuss the good and bad of Job Outsourcing from the U.S. to places like India and China. One man, M. Eric Johnson, director of Tuck's Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, made the following comment. It was in regards to how protectionism will not reslove the job crisis in America, but instead rely on "innovation and productivity":

It's all about innovation and productivity. As long as we maintain those two engines, we'll continue to have a very high standard of living. Out in the Bay Area there are plenty of folks who would love to create a little bit of protectionism around their I.T. jobs, but we are far better off letting a lot of those jobs go. Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs.

Ok, 633|<$, so this guy is lumping all coding as low-skill jobs, I assume under the premise that a job in which a plethora of qualified people exist in the world, it must low-skilled if so many people can do it. Do you think coding is a low-skill job, especially compared to "advanced project manangement jobs"? And what is an "advanced project manangement" job? I've had to "manage" from time to time various people to make sure they perform their tasks on time to finish a project. I find multi-track editing and sound design more difficult and time-consuming, personally.

Not to seem too biased in favor of my H4x0r brethren, it's just I've been on both the giving and receiving end in regards to B.S. management techniques and it seems easier to B.S. your management abilities than your coding ablities. I've seen bad coders get outed real damn quick vs. bad project managers.

Oh, here is the original NYT article.

Fire away thoughts NOW!

Nothing like musical diversity

It's rather interesting the kind of music one finds when people start to share their iTunes library. :)

Haven't heard this track in years.

q: What's grosser than gross?

A: Realizing the water in your Camebak is the same water you poured from the dust-covered, playa-tasting water container out at Burning Man.

say it with me now:

eeew.

Oh well, it will be nice and washed from wednesday skiing! ;)