Month: August 2009

Just got back from a long weekend in Sunnyvale, CA for Carnegie Mellon’s incoming student orientation. It was a fun weekend – filled with seminars and workshops. Nancy went with me and spent the time visiting her family. The orientation opened on Friday morning with class pictures and a “mixer” activity designed to help students… Continue reading Carnegie Mellon Orientation

Driving to work today I saw a license plate holder that said the following: I see it, I want it, I throw a fit, and I get it While obviously intended to be funny, the sentiment struck me as a glorification of selfishness and childishness and that one would not consider putting such a sentiment… Continue reading Contrasts

Today was the day I decided to break in my new pressure canner by doing beets. We planted two rows of beets and most of the seeds sprouted so we had tons. We started off using the beets by making Borscht and beet salad. They were really good but we grew tired of beets pretty… Continue reading Beets

I just got the reading/course material for classes this fall. I have two classes: Elements of Software Management and Metrics for Software Managers. The books for the Metrics class are: Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results The books for… Continue reading A Little Light Reading