A topsy turvy year

By on 3/21/2012 in Flashback, Random Babblings

“It’s been a ‘topsy turvy’ year” .. this was a line from a friends year-end letter I read a few months ago and it’s been stuck in my head since, indeed, this past year has been crazy for us. A year ago today I found my job at The Jackson Laboratory would be ending in [...]

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Michael Anthony Groteke. 20 years. Still miss you.

By on 2/8/2012 in Flashback

I’ve blogged about him every year on this day for a while now. I don’t have much else to say on this day except I still remember and miss Mike. See http://matt.baya.net/?s=groteke&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 for a list of blogs where I’ve mentioned him.

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“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” – God; Futurama

By on 11/1/2011 in Geek Speak

“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” – God; Futurama episode ‘Godfellas’ I saw this in someone’s signature on a tech mailing list I belong to today and it immediately reminded me of some of the conversations I have had with fellow sysadmins about our jobs. When we [...]

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