Following Sports as Hobby

I'm having trouble following sports as most of the writers I used to like are gone. ESPN.com used to have a deep stable of excellent, thought provoking or enjoyable writers. Rob Neyer, Bill Simmons, David Thorpe, Wiley, Law, Hollinger, Stark and more. Some of those guys are still there and I simply can't stand them anymore. Stark has turned into an abominable shit-stirring for no purpose other then shit, Wiley is dead, Thorpe seems to have only haters he feeds constantly and Simmons is evolving and exploring and I don't care.

Law is still around and his chats are great but I only care about prospects a little, so I can't stay too focused. Hollinger is great like all of the time but the NBA just finished a great post season and will now go fuck itself up real hard for a year or so. That should make for excellent reading: still no games. Sorry guys!

And Neyer left. Neyer was why I started reading everything at ESPN back when. Its why I have an insider subscription. And I can't follow him to SBNation. ESPN might be an ad-whoring mongrel of a site but its got nothing on SBNation. Giant, page covering gilette ads? check. Oh, those ads mean if you click anywhere but the text of the article you end up on the ad landing page? awesome. And those ads are ugly as fuck? trifecta hit. Where's my sad sack of cash?

Luckily for me I'm getting into programming as a hobby as well as my job. I'm finding I want to explore the programming ideas I ignored for years. I imagine it will make me a better programmer but I don't think I care. Its like, 'hey! you're better at your job!' Okay? Neat. I enjoy reading about compiler's now. *shrug*

I hope I don't turn into a language zealot now. I was able to stave that off by not getting involved or too close to my field. I hope I can maintain emotional distance as I decrease intellectual distance. We'll see!

*this was supposed to be tweet, couldn't quite get all that emotion in. Also, additional bitching about Neyer is needed. He was more enjoyable at ESPN when he had a muzzle. He kind of sounds like an old punk who's been trotted out from storage but is still shouting about the sex pistols even though they've been irrelevant for two decades.

Design Problem - Part One

Grr... I am having trouble fully defining my problem. This means I do not understand it, so the designs are flawed. I've been moving faster lately. I don't always think this is a good thing.

Moving slowly and deliberately has been my preferred mode for awhile. I'm quiet by nature. Pondering several things at once: something technical, something humorous, something lewd and something relaxing. I've become mono-thought based.

aside: I've been putting adverbs in this text. I hate adverbs. I take them out, but I view them as mental weakness.

I want to curl up and around with my problem. My problem is a friend. my problem is a companion. We can fight and argue. Frustrate each other, but we always come back. The problem because it exists and me because I do as well. But my current problem is diffuse. It has no requirements. Its a bogeyman stemming from a pile of shitty communication and passive limitation acceptance. My current problem is a organizational lack of commitment to a plan. But this makes sense as two of the four levels immediately above me are now vacant.

A series of leadership voids is creating engineering failures. The managers who are missing should not be designing anything, but they should be forcing issues be resolved. This sucks. Time to go read some Spolsky, see if I can get something useful.