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Leonidas

Innovator in Tragedy.

About Me

Mostly I'm just grim tenacity and a wry grin.

My Interests

Ironic Stoicism is our specialty.

I'd like to meet:

Surprise me.

Music:

Anything dark, melancholy or angry. Bonus points for mixing and matching.

Television:

Oh, that thing. It makes the moving pictures, right? Not a big fan.

Books:

I read everything and nothing. It's so very Zen.

Heroes:

Mostly dead people, though that isn't the only qualification.

My Blog

Here we are.

Hey, all you people out there in internet land. I'm sure you've missed me as much I've missed all of you. It's been a typically busy few months since my last post, and I somehow doubt it's going to ge...
Posted by Leonidas on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:55:00 PST

Youll Win at Everything, Forever.

So, this post has had a long time to percolate in the back of my mind. The last week has been pretty spotty on computer access, so it's taken me until now to come online and write this. You migh...
Posted by Leonidas on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:39:00 PST

Catsup

My status:Started Compuware 21JAN2008, negotiated first week without termination.Moving to Detroit 27JAN2008. Contact details on request.New (to me) vehicle obtained, needs registration, etc. 30JAN200...
Posted by Leonidas on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:27:00 PST

Happy New Year

More Weight
Posted by Leonidas on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:53:00 PST

And the Winner Is...

Compuware. I sign with them Friday.
Posted by Leonidas on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:04:00 PST

Generalism and Generalities

I have found that being a generalist has the following critical drawback:Knowledge, once acquired, immediately begins to degrade in disuse. Imagine, if you will, that learning forms a sort of layered ...
Posted by Leonidas on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:09:00 PST

Decisions.

Two offers. Cerner: More money (TWENTY FUCKING PERCENT). Located in Kansas City, MO. Mandatory 48 hour weeks. Decent bennies. No attractive grad program in the area. Potential of interesting work.Comp...
Posted by Leonidas on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:21:00 PST

Absolution

Sometimes all you have to do is ask.Easy, right?
Posted by Leonidas on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:48:00 PST

Of Careers, and Ulcers

I spent the last two days travelling to and from Kansas City, and interviewing for a software architect position there with a company called Cerner. They might want me to program a neural net AI for d...
Posted by Leonidas on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:31:00 PST

Shout Out

So, I got a new phone today. This.Those of you that know me also know how desperately I was lethargically considering jumping ship from the festering gremlin-pile that was my old phone. And so I did, ...
Posted by Leonidas on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:48:00 PST