4/22/11 12:00 pm - The permanent top-of-Jenny's-journal post currently says:Dateline mid-April '09: Free userpics here. Credit anyone who I note the art as belonging to. Four Panels is still on hiatus. I know, you are all so sad and such. Meh. As of July 2008, I am working at Epic Systems Corporation, outside of Madison, Wisconsin, as a software dev. You can Google Epic if you want, and read all the horror stories, but if they're all accurate then I guess I must've gotten hired in an alternate reality. I'm well aware that we individual employees are mere resources, to be used for the good of the company as a whole at the expense of our own personal time and lives; that we are expected to work ten, twelve, and occasionally, if we are useful enough to our evil overlords, even 24 hours straight with a smile and see a plastic-framed award certificate as full compensation; but, um, hello and welcome to the entire software industry? Next perhaps we can complain that sure, water keeps us from dying, but GRR IT IS WET I HATE THAT. Every morning I get to go to work in a t-shirt; every night I get to go home knowing that I've helped in some teensy-tiny way to help millions of people get cared for a little better by their friendly local doctor types. I guess what I'm trying to say is, neener. I've also totally found the Nerd Mothership. It's like being raised by wolves, and then finally being rescued by your tribe, who on the way back to the village proceed to talk about how this is totally like that one episode of Star Trek. Then they ask you if you have your towel. We gave up on fixing my old computer, and now I have a monster of a laptop and wilsonator's drive in an external drive housing dealie. My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite named Osterman. Naming a Satellite "Osterman" is a two-layered reference that you probably have to be me to get. Hint: one half is musical, one half is a major motion picture. But anyway! I now have access to all my old files and things! This is good, even if I do have to put up with Vista on Osterman. But I guess it's worth it, since now I can come home from my job programming healthcare software and spend my evenings programming hacked objects for The Sims (that would be The Sims I). I fully intend to get a working set of bunkbeds in the game eventually! There, that should take care of the twice-yearly-if-you're-lucky top-of-the-page update. Dash dash dash. Dot! |
