BULLSHIT

So a 47-year-old ugly person sings well. So what?

So she can sing. So nobody thinks she could because she didn't dress up or look like the norm.

Why the fuck am I reading all these self-satisfying mother fuckers writing articles about how disgusting all humans are and how we shouldn't pre-judge. Everyone's talking about how she teaches us a lesson about this.

Aren't there enough examples out there in the world of people who have broken preconceptions? You ever interview a candidate? You ever meet other people? It drives me absolutely insane.

You think this shows the ugliness of human nature? Are you fucking stupid? You ever heard of the Milgram experiments? How about Guantanamo Bay? How about the Taliban? How about the financial bastards who put us in the worse economic downturn since the great depression? You ever watch A&E where they talk about serial killers?

This doesn't even make a blip on my radar.

Now let's get back to this. This is the entertainment industry. Yes, most entertainers are intended to be very attractive and have a certain look but there 

*are* examples of entertainers who don't have the "look". Macy Gray, Courtney Love, or Amy Lee. So why is this making so much news!?

This is going to be my last example of why this commotion is ridiculous. This happened before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelJrP3P7tA

Same fucking show as well.

New Team

I'm a little annoyed at the circumstances that have occurred in the past week.

We had our principal architect run amok. He pumped up our website application with all these technologies. I had to be the wet blanket and say that I needed reasonable timelines to ramp-up on new technologies as well as architect time to help us along the way.

The deal was that our 3 person team was to grow to 5. My team lead and I were to each get an underling and to control either the front or the back-end. My 'sub' project manager was to get into coding a little bit more.

Due to circumstances beyond our control. They inform us that we will both lose our underlings. And lastly, I just lost my team lead.

The project will still go on without my lead. But that leaves myself as the technical lead on this project. I kind of want a lead on the project ... but I'd want a lead who's better than me. Otherwise, EVERY accomplishment I make is going to be "because we picked a good lead" and not because of me.

On the other hand, I don't want to be overwhelmed with technology and other things.


Here's a personal list of all the things that I want for the next project:

• NUnit (Unit Testing)
  
• RhinoMock
• VS 2008 Database Edition
• Entity Framework (Microsoft ORM)
  
• LINQ
• C# .NET 3.5
  
• WCF
• Silverlight 2.0
• MVVM Pattern
• CruiseControl

I'm devouring a book about the entity framework. I already know NUnit (straightforward enough). I need to know what RhinoMock is all about for devising my test cases. The VS 2008 Database Edition for managing database changes. I've read a lot of tutorials about LINQ. C# .NET 3.5 is just going to be me coding in 2.0 and learning about 3.5 from sample code I read online. I did some video tutorials of WCF a year ago but I'll need to refresh myself. I need to learn Silverlight from scratch as well as the MVVM pattern.

CruiseControl is set-up for managing our builds. I think I'll need to learn about how our solution builder works.