Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
That previous post has me thinking back on my twenty-one years in information technology…which is a long enough time, that when I started, very few people were calling it information technology. They called it “programming.” There was a wall dividing Germany, the President’s name was Reagan, and no one needed more than 640k.
I’m not going to write about the 21 years here. Not now, and probably not ever.
But if I did…I’d have to invent a new word. So I might as well do that anyway:
Un-boss (n.)
As zits might pop up on your face if you don’t wash it often enough, the un-boss pops up in workplaces that don’t pay close enough attention to how they’re organized. Some loudmouth who fancies himself as possessing, or God help you actually works himself into the position of possessing, all of the authority with regard to determining what your job is and how well you’re doing it — with none of the associated responsibility.
Someone who fixates, and not quietly, on the opinion he has about others…and might do very well at paying some closer attention to the opinions others have of him. But won’t.
See Seagull Manager.
Looking back on it, I’ll bet it I added up all the time I had to work around some un-boss who was trying to use his gift-of-gab to become my pretend-boss, it would probably add up to just five percent or less. Feels more like eighty. Just like, a year of being married to a bad wife feels like forty.
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