da Bio
Welcome to Billy's Biography page. This is the place you can go to get all the information that you would want from Facebook, but I don't want to put on there. In other words, I just don't want to spend the time to put something up there. So I hope that you enjoy the information, as I'm told I don't give it out as freely as I think I do.
Basically, I'm a Senior Software Engineer with an interest in many different things including but not limited to computers. Kinda hard to always be interested in doing things on computers when you are on them all day, ya know? Also hard to get excited about my computer at home when my computer at work runs circles around the one at home. Unfortunate.
I'm also a Minnesota Twins fan, and hate the Yankees. I have a strategy for beating them, but it entails losing 3 of our pitchers in the first inning. I think it is a good idea. It may not be.
Another interest might be politics. However, since it seems that blogging about politics only leads to trouble, I guess I'll settle for some banter over a beer in a pub. I guess that is the way it should be anyways... Hard to connect with the people you are arguing with in a blog. Maybe I'll add a politics page at some point to this site and share My Evil Plan to Save the World. Ask me about it sometime... but only over a beer in a pub (wink).
Hmmmm... Trying to think if there is anything else you might want to know about me. Guess that you already know too much. Oh, I also enjoy long walks on the beach, and unicorns (points to the person who names that song).
divine comedy
There are many different circles of Hell found in the Divine Comedy. I seem to run into a few more everyday. So, here are my personal circles of Hell...with a nerd slant.
- Removing spyware from a computer.
- Fixing configurations by guess and check method.
- Debugging a Javascript error in Microsoft's Free Script Debugger.
- Balancing 5 different CSS hacks in 5 different browsers.
- Working on a dial-up connection.
- Attempting to turn off Javascript in IE6 in a managed network.
- Removing spyware from a computer for the second time.
- Fixing production issues via guess and check method for a day and a half.
- Resolving CSS differences in IE6 in Quirks Mode.
virtual life
lingo
- "...And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting..." - Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven
- "All your base are belong to us" - Zero Wing
- "Giggity." - Quagmire's catch phrase from Family Guy.
- "Shibby." - Dude, Where's My Car?
on the small screen
- Star Trek
- Stargate
- Law and Order
- Justified
- Dexter
- Rizzoli and Isles
- The Big Bang Theory (best clip ever...)
- How I Met Your Mother
- Firefly
on the large screen
- Seven
- Dude, Where's my Car?
- Tombstone
- Serenity
- Braveheart
- Zombieland
- Star Trek