Justin Lloyd's Thinkering

Somebody needs to think about this stuff...

Win at all costs

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I’ve always held that if I do not stand a good chance of winning then I will refuse to compete.

And if I am forced to compete, then I change the rules to make sure I stand a good chance of winning.

Given them short shift

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A shorter work week is an ideal that will never happen.

Not because we as humans would like to work less but because other people are unhappy that they have to work more.

People who want more want the economy to be ever bigger.

Body Contouring Amnesia

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For years I slept on, or rather visited, for a few weeks at a time, my bed in my home.

On that bed I had a memory foam mattress.

The problem with memory a foam mattress is that if you don’t sleep on it for any length of time, a few weeks touring with your band for instance, the memory foam mattress forgets who you are.

Memory foam is obviously short-term memory only.

And when my mattress got older, it suffered from complete amnesia.

Which somehow is a metaphor of life.

Unit testing

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What it is like to write code without unit tests:
“That didn’t work as expected.”

What it is like to write code with unit tests:

“That didn’t work, as expected.”

Today I am learning about unit testing and integration testing (thanks Fred Brooks!) because today the company I am doing some consulting work for finally decided that “maybe these industrial robots could kill someone, you know? Maybe we should pay more attention to safety than just putting up a guard rail and a big warning sign.”

Yah think?!?

An irrational password scheme

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Sat with colleagues at lunch and we are discussing personal password security.

It seems that I am among security conscious individuals.

I mention I don’t have a clever password scheme, “I always use the last 10-digits of Pi on every login, including my bank. Even my ATM pin code is the last 4 digits of e.”

“Did you just tell us your password? That’s really dumb.” two of them chorused.

“You should really go change that right now.” urged one.

I continued eating whilst one of my other colleagues sat there smirking.

(Not so) Easy rider

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Was out for a ride with a (now) ex-friend.

We were heading back to dispatch to turn in some papers from a package drop.

Both of us riding a bit fast ’cause we just wanted to get home.

You know how it is.

Nothing too aggressive but certainly not 70.

Anyway, (now) ex-friend opens it up coming across the Severn bridge.

I decide not to push it and just let him go.

I pass him a couple of minutes later pulled over by the fuzz.

When he catches me up at the next services he is cheesed off.

1. Because I didn’t “stop and help him talk his way out of it” with the police.

2. Because I am refusing to pay half of his speeding ticket he got handed.

And this is the clincher, because he was aggressive with the officer, it isn’t just a “pay this and get some points” ticket.

Now he actually has to show up, in court, and get a dressing down by the magistrate.

And because I said I won’t go to court with him, he’s super pissed about that.

And that’s the last time I basically use my afternoon off to ride with an (ex) friend Cardiff to Bristol so he has got some company dropping off a package ’cause he didn’t want to do it alone.

Fuck ‘im.

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