George Allen Miller One Geek's take on all things SciFi

This is a tough one. I myself have played the college game and eared a few degrees. What have I gained for my long scholastic training? Mountains of debt and a few extra dollars a year. I saw a study once, I do not have a reference for it, that said that those with Masters degrees earn about 10k a year more than those that do not. Is 10k really worth it? The first thing I say to that is, is money the only reason we go to school? I went to school originally to have a leg up on the competition. I also wanted to learn a thing or two about a thing or two. I went to school to experience college, earn degrees and maybe benefit from them in the work place. Have I? Yes, a bit. Though, there really should be some distinctions made between going to college and going to a overpriced ivy league, or equivalent, college. When you go to Harvard, you go knowing you will be among the future leaders of America. The same is true ... More

We've all experienced aggressive people at work. Both managers and non-managers can sometimes let themselves get a bit too aggressive. I myself have witnessed it and been guilty of it. When is it too much? Should you not be aggressive at all? I think finding the right balance is, as always, the key. I was once presented with a task at work which essentially boiled down to record all the email addresses that a certain program has built into it. Simple enough. Unfortunately, I wasn't the one who set the program up and had to get this information from someone else. OK, I thought, shouldn't be any big mystery here. And so it wasn't, I asked the owner of the project how many emails there are and what they are. He responded with 2. Great. Simple. I updated the required documentation and was about to submit it to the proper people. I checked with someone else on another piece of the document and that someone else emphatically declared there were three emails. Now, I know this sounds to be a terribly simple, ... More

This is my very first post on my new website. I feel like I should say something monumental as a kick off, but honestly, that's not what the site is about. So, how about instead a little bit about how this site came to be. I think that's appropriate. I have always wanted to share some of my experiences with others in the hope that it may help some. I also wanted to guide this site to be somewhat of a personal growth and development website. I plan on doing that but telling of my own life experiences, things I've done, mistakes I've made, and roads I've gone down and what I've found when I have. In some cases those roads were great ones, others they were dead ends and still others were just train wrecks. So, with that said, I thought I would spend this first post talking about family. Mine is going through a tough time right now. My grandmother is ill, well, not ill, she's 96. When you get up there that far it's hard to bounce back from ... More