Year of the Cock-a-doodle-doo
Gung Hay Fat Choy! It's Chinese New Year starting Februay 9 and the Year of the Rooster is celebrated for 15 glorious days of good food, a clean house, and family. I myself, am not a rooster, but the very enviable Dragon. You often have an overabundance of Chinese births during the year of the dragon, trickling into the snake as families try and have dragon babies. It's very fortuitous and promises a good life for the child. (I have no excuse for myself.) I celebrated the New Year by having dinner at Golden Unicorn in Chinatown in New York (the Cantonese one, not the Mandarin one), feasting on a 12 course banquet with friends. We had plenty of leftovers which is very good omen for the rest of the year--lots of leftover food means we'll have a very rich year. Catching you up time:Movies: Million Dollar Baby, The Wedding Date, The Incredibles, In Good Company, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Books: The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Poster Collection Acquisitions: Batman Begins Advanced, Constantine, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Closer, The Incredibles Advanced Teaser Set
Something to think about: Whenever people ask me what I do, I reply Programmer and they respond What kind? How many kinds are there?
4 Comments:
At February 11, 2005 12:14 PM, jano said…
How many kinds of programmers? Tons. .NET, web services, Windows applications, specific software coding languages, etc.
As for books, I happened to just be reading a book involving a dog and an autistic boy, although different in most other respects.
At February 11, 2005 1:38 PM, azureladybug said…
Yes, Jano, I know this, but to a non-techie, they think something other than computer programmer. I was speaking more in terms of job title. My point--no one believes I am a computer programmer. So I ask again more specifically, are there other types of programmers other than computer programmers?
At February 14, 2005 11:34 AM, dan allen said…
Perhaps they think you work for Playbill or maybe they think you love the metric system.
"I use to be a Pro-Pounder, now I'm a Pro-Grammer."
Don't underestimate other people's intelligence. You are too hard on the masses.
At February 14, 2005 11:30 PM, N said…
Aren't those guys who scale the steps of the nosebleed seats in Yankee Stadium 'programmers?'
Programs, get your programs! Can't tell the playahs widdout one o' dese!
And you are, my dear, rather particular about proper sentence construction. I venture to believe that you may indeed be pro-grammar.
My Ukrainian grandmother calls Josef Stalin something that sounds like "pogrommer," but I don't think it has anything to do with computers (or baseball). And then she spits on the floor. (But I'm still pro-grandma...)
Tip your waitresses, ladies and germs.
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