{"id":24,"date":"2001-05-11T21:30:36","date_gmt":"2001-05-12T03:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2004-10-01T21:31:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T03:31:35","slug":"deadline-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Deadline? We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; deadlines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collections of stories, etc., is on todays&#8217; menu. Nothing like a cancelled project to free up a bit of time. All that deadline pressure up in smoke. Or was it just replace with frustration? Or is that post project depression? Or&#8230; Whatever. I wonder if anyone will hear me pop the cork on this bottle of wine here in my cube?<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\">\nServer 54, Where Are You?<\/p>\n<p>This item is from the 04\/09\/01 edition of TechWeb News :<\/p>\n<p>The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn&#8217;t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn&#8217;t find the server. Working with Novell Inc., IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.<\/p>\n<p>[Ed. I&#8217;m curious what the operating system was running on that box. Two bits says it wasn&#8217;t Windows. Microsoft&#8217;s license would have brought the thing down long before the 4 year mark.]<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\">\nThe Senility Prayer<\/p>\n<p>    God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway<br \/>\n    The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,<br \/>\n    And &#8211; the eyesight to tell the difference. <\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\">\nWhat aging has taught me:<\/p>\n<p>1) I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.<\/p>\n<p>2) My wild oats have turned into prunes and All Bran.<\/p>\n<p>3) I finally got my head together; now my body is falling apart.<\/p>\n<p>4) Funny, I don&#8217;t remember being absent minded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5) All reports are in; life is now officially unfair.<\/p>\n<p>6) If all is not lost, where is it?<\/p>\n<p>7) It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.<\/p>\n<p>8) I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>9) It&#8217;s hard to make a comeback when you haven&#8217;t been anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>10) Only time the world beats a path to your door is when you&#8217;re in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>11) If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.<\/p>\n<p>12) When I&#8217;m finally holding all the cards, why does everyone decide to play chess?<\/p>\n<p>13) It&#8217;s not hard to meet expenses&#8230;they&#8217;re everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>14) The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.<\/p>\n<p>15) These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter. I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I&#8217;m here after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collections of stories, etc., is on todays&#8217; menu. Nothing like a cancelled project to free up a bit of time. All that deadline pressure up in smoke. Or was it just replace with frustration? Or is that post project depression? Or&#8230; Whatever. I wonder if anyone will hear me pop the cork on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}