Comments on: FYI for TB… https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:05:37 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eri https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-3172 Eri Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:42:43 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-3172 Hey! I got enuf gray hairs. Hey! I got enuf gray hairs.

]]> By: Eri https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-3171 Eri Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:41:25 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-3171 Yes, and it's full of trans fats which clog your arteries. Yes, and it’s full of trans fats which clog your arteries.

]]> By: Eri https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-3170 Eri Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:33:50 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-3170 No, it makes you a young man at the beginning of your journey. As we move toward the end, things change, we change, dreams change, sometimes die, reality invades and we bow to the inevitable. That is not supposed to be depressing. It's a long road and you write, create, your own journey. Make yours a wonderful one with a loud triumphant timpani ending! No, it makes you a young man at the beginning of your journey. As we move toward the end, things change, we change, dreams change, sometimes die, reality invades and we bow to the inevitable. That is not supposed to be depressing. It’s a long road and you write, create, your own journey. Make yours a wonderful one with a loud triumphant timpani ending!

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-3129 TB Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:25:53 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-3129 I think we've fried this metaphor. I think we’ve fried this metaphor.

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-3126 mcfly Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:07:03 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-3126 So, if I've got this right...your eggs are eating the hairy little creeps that ER mentioned. Hmmm. Remind your eggs to floss... So, if I’ve got this right…your eggs are eating the hairy little creeps that ER mentioned.

Hmmm.

Remind your eggs to floss…

]]> By: VelociraptorBlade https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-3001 VelociraptorBlade Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:45:58 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-3001 I guess that makes me a control freak when it comes to destiny. >_> I guess that makes me a control freak when it comes to destiny. >_>

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-2994 ER Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:23:07 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-2994 Thanks, but no thanks. The next-to-last few years of my working life I was either managing or administrating, with only an occasional mapping project just to keep my hand in and take the pressure off my staff. Then after my demotion, I got stuck with an obsolete vector data management system no one else wanted to deal with, in a do-or-die job of maintaining our streets database for Emergency 911 dispatching. It was the kind of work where if you did it right, no one noticed, and if you screwed up, you wound up on the evening news or in court. It left me a nervous wreck, professional cartographers are detail people, we don't work well under pressure in life and death situations. My last twoyears I did very little cartography at all, I was a bullshit paper shuffling city planner. Those guys not only hamstrung my career, they managed to get me to hate my profession. As a result, not only did I lose all my software skills as the technology progressed without me, but I became so bitter and pissed off I came to hate the work, and lost all interest in learning anything new, especially the latest software. Funny thing about the work you describe, though. My first programming job for Gulf Oil in the late 70s was crunching well log data like gravity, seismic and magnetotellurics and producing 3d perspective maps of underground formations--Fortran batch jobs on an IBM mainframe, drawn on flatbed plotters off 9 inch tape. I have no idea how you would even go about doing that nowadays. Thanks, but no thanks.

The next-to-last few years of my working life I was either managing or administrating, with only an occasional mapping project just to keep my hand in and take the pressure off my staff.

Then after my demotion, I got stuck with an obsolete vector data management system no one else wanted to deal with, in a do-or-die job of maintaining our streets database for Emergency 911 dispatching. It was the kind of work where if you did it right, no one noticed, and if you screwed up, you wound up on the evening news or in court. It left me a nervous wreck, professional cartographers are detail people, we don’t work well under pressure in life and death situations.

My last twoyears I did very little cartography at all, I was a bullshit paper shuffling city planner. Those guys not only hamstrung my career, they managed to get me to hate my profession.

As a result, not only did I lose all my software skills as the technology progressed without me, but I became so bitter and pissed off I came to hate the work, and lost all interest in learning anything new, especially the latest software.

Funny thing about the work you describe, though. My first programming job for Gulf Oil in the late 70s was crunching well log data like gravity, seismic and magnetotellurics and producing 3d perspective maps of underground formations–Fortran batch jobs on an IBM mainframe, drawn on flatbed plotters off 9 inch tape. I have no idea how you would even go about doing that nowadays.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-2993 Jody Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:20:18 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-2993 Fo' schizzle Fo’ schizzle

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-2992 Jody Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:19:36 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-2992 I am not giving up dear young one...just conceding what I have control of and what I do not. I am not giving up dear young one…just conceding what I have control of and what I do not.

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2011/06/28/fyi-for-tb/#comment-2985 mcfly Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:19:08 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=2068#comment-2985 On the software front, have you considered adding Blender to your tool kit? Bet it wouldn't take you long to get up to speed. On the software front, have you considered adding Blender to your tool kit?

Bet it wouldn’t take you long to get up to speed.

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