Writing sci-fi and making music

Yes. It was glorious.

On the flipside, there was a lot of broken CGI (as in, “common gateway interface”)

Liquid Tension Experiment - Rhapsody in Blue

I’ve liked LTE since I first heard them in 1999, and RiB has been a cool song to me for ages as well. I love how they combine even though I’m sure Gershwin would be rolling in his grave

Land of Confusion scared me as a kid. I have vague toddler memories of finding the dolls creepy to the point where I couldn’t watch it.

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly

I haven’t got a fucking clue. I always hated normal jobs, but I do enjoy having both food and shelter (how decadent of me, I know), so I did what I could to scrape by. And what I “could” usually translated to “could find”.

Then my proper career started in 2008, and it was an offshore rotation. Give weeks offshore in various corners of the world, followed by five weeks at home. It paid well, and I got to see the world. I worked my ass off for five weeks straight, 12 hour shifts every day, and when I was home I was free ro do whatever.

Then came 2011: The company wasn’t doing too well, and I had contracted a family. I wanted to spend more time at home, and while I wasn’t completely prepared to change careers just yet, I was mentally toying with the idea.

In spring 2012 I decided it was time to find a “normal” job, so I could spend more time with my family. M through F, 0800-1600, mostly at a technical workshop, sometimes at clients’ places, and once in a blue moon at an office.

It. Was. Miserable. But having a normal job was what I was supposed to do, right? Well, the money wasn’t bad per se, but it was nowhere near what I used to earn. Plus, when I got home from work I was so exhausted I rarely had energy left over. The family life I was aiming for was severely limited by my stamina.

In 2019 I concluded that nor.al jobs are for normal people, so I reached out to some old colleagues of mine, and suddenly I found myself in a job interview. Got back offshore, and never regretted my change of heart.

It’s worth noting that I don’t really go offshore any.ore, as I have since ended up in a supporting role, where 90% of my job is done via email or VPN, from home, saving up energy for when my kids (now plural) get home.

Not as much as I used to. I have kids now.

But when I’m on a business trip and I’m in my hotel room, finished for the day, I usually do.

To find elsewhere to eat.

A few days ago I aked a dev at our subcontractor if this proprietary software would in theory run on windows. Not only “yes”, but me running mint on my worklaptop was perfect, because his dev and test environment was debian, so even though the software was built to run on windows, he could easily build a version specifically for me.

Improvement, or changing the trend towards it.

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I still pirate without a VPN

Same. Typically I start scrolling, and upon realizing how long the total is, I end up clicking the scrollbar

Sushi in Singapore, and Indian food (Tikka Fahl, iirc) in Czech Republic

All web servers are servers. Not all servers are web servers.

Can confirm. Am Norwegian. Have a Russian friend at work, and he’s an overall great guy. Slava Ukraini, heroyam slava.

Nothing beats a proper English breakfast

Also, beef wellington is pretty great if done right.

Officially I don’t have a job title, but I’m a technical manager/supervisor in an offshore seismic survey company. I plan, build, and support systems that combine robotics and IT, intended for offshore use.

I didn’t even finish high school, by the way.