Cox Crow

I am still in the office. It was that kind of day.

While I waited for the new VPN to completely install, I read that Google Talk has some nifty new features, ordered a Google-branded headset, and found FogCreek is looking for a system administrator.

There is something to be said for working for a small company:

We’re in New York City. We pay well and have great benefits, like free lunch, stock options, Aeron chairs and private offices. You get four weeks of paid vacation and six holidays, health insurance, a dental plan, gym membership, and relocation expenses paid. We’ll consider applicants from anywhere in the US. We will not consider telecommuting.

Damn. That no telecommuting clause put the kibosh on my interest in Google too. Oh well. I understand the benefits of working closely, physically, with others, but unless the StorageTek robot jams — like it did this evening — or unless you’re running Oracle on Windows, much of the work does not require one to be physically near to the servers. And I’m tired of driving, and tired of taking the train, and want to be near my family.

In this picture one side of the plate is lined with slices of an organically-grown tomato purchased at Stop and Shop; the other, with slices of an organically-grown tomato from the container outside my garage: it fell off the vine today. I have decorated each with basil leaves from the same container, and drizzled olive oil on both.

One of the tomatoes tastes good. The other doesn’t. Guess which one.

In other food news, the Boston Beer Company has a limited release of their Brewer Patriot collection. I’m particularly fond of the George Washington Porter and the Traditional Ginger Honey Ale.

System Administrator Day is next Friday, July 28th.

Don’t forget, or we’ll have to write random data over your Sarbanes-Oxley audit.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The authors of the Declaration of Independence offer first the philosophical justification for the revolt.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

And then, since the justification requires it, they provide evidence that the present government is destructive of the proper ends of government.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Are the facts presented sufficient?