Losing your job affects you. It makes you question your comfort, your skills, it makes you ask is this type of job right for you, whose fault was it, what can you do better next time?

I’m a confident guy, I’m not perfect but I am the perfect example of someone who believes they’re Superman and cannot be harmed.

But when Databanq let me go, I was rocked and it took me several weeks to figure it all out and then soon after starting the job hunt again MindComet found me and it’s now been over three months. Here are a few things I’ve learned from MindComet and about myself.

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I remember back after the 2004 election when Obama won the Senatorial seat,  my friend Matt and I idly noted that his charisma, character and intelligence showed that he was on the fast track for the White house. Well it seems we need a political commentary show as we were correct.

Obama is coming into this seat with quite a lot on his plate with the economic problems, the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the international image which we need to repair there is little doubt he will be tested and tried.

His politics are radically different than my own but now he is to be the President and so I support him. We can take our political differences up later.

His campaign has changed the political landscape for future elections, and it has opened the door to the power of a well organized and well motivated ground force.

Congratulations to you sir.

Yes, it’s official, I am Captain Hammer.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Today I turn 25.

With the last debate currently going on, I feel now is the good time to point out that I’m officially a card carrying member of the Libertarian Party. I paid my dues and got a card for my wallet and a sticker for the car.

Smaller Government. Lower Taxes. More Freedom.
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Here’s another lunchtime jQuery snippet as the last one proved semi-popular. This one came about today as I needed to expand on an existing expand/collapse functionality to allow users to expand or collapse all of the objects with this functionality.
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Years ago at college I wrote a very vivid, politically incorrect, and extremely explicit blog post entailing my frustration at an ordeal Comcast had put me through concerning pay-per-view charges which kept appearing on our account for no reason.

Today I’m not going to do that to T-Mobile, though I am beyond frustrated, beyond angry, beyond belief that T-Mobile is acting this way. They’re rated the top cell phone carrier for customer service and yet I’m facing the third dead phone of theirs in just 5 months.
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Last night was a progressive dinner style event for the Mindcomet employees which had a climax of a no-holds-barred shotfest. And I decided to just go balls to the wall.

Shots are really the optimal way to get someone like me drunk, any other option takes too much alcohol or time simply as a factor of size. I immediately took a buddy of mine and declared that I was going to go toe-to-toe with him. Now, the guy I went against is an experienced drinker and an irish/scotch American who did an admirable job. For a while I thought he had beat me but I held on to a self-declared victory, witnessed by some of my fellow employees before I headed off to bed under my own steam.

I think it was 23 shots of various concoctions when I called it a night. I was pretty drunk, drunker than I’ve been in a while, but still sober enough to change out of my clothes and confirm one last time that my alarm was set for the morning. It’s a company rule that on the retreat we are told to have a blast, party like a rockstar, but if anyone misses one of the meetings where we do true work then they are fired. So, the alarm clock was very important.

I woke up to the alarm and I’m feeling it this morning in the form of a headache but not too bad.

Today we’re doing departmental meetings in the morning before we all get into character for a mystery di..lunch! That promises to be entertaining as we’ve all got rather unusual characters. Then, after the lunch that evening we’ve got the company award show (it’s like the Emmy’s but cooler someone said to me when describing it.) So I’ll be enjoying that as well today.

Then tomorrow, we’re up at 3am to get on a bus to the train station before rolling on back to Orlando. But so far it’s been a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to today.