Update XXI: "Scientific Facts Are Not Hard And Fast Rules."

[Indy Texas]

What IT qualifications do you have? that's the real reason I'm calling it bogus.

He has a degree in 'e-commerce' from Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

Does e-commerce involve any of the following?
1. Actual programming/databases/webpage construction
2. Real math courses (at the very least, 2 semesters of calculus)


My guess is no...

I pulled up the archived course listing from NWOSU's now-defunct E-Commerce program. It's from Fall 2002, which would have been during the time Jeff was there.

Here's what we've got...

Introduction to E-Commerce
Web Programming I
Website Design & Development
Internet Programming II
Web Programming II
Database Driven Websites
E-Commerce Capstone
E-Commerce Technical Systems Design
E-Commerce Law/Policy/Regulation
Internet Programming III
E-Commerce Marketing

And the website for the E-Commerce program itself.

It appears that Jeff would have come away from this with at the very least a basic understanding of HTML programming and how to write SQL queries and such. Given that, I don't understand why he wouldn't want to be a database administrator or a network administrator - all jobs that pay pretty well and require virtually no personal interaction as is the case with the ubiquitous sales and call center jobs.

Instead of blowing all that money on CADD school, why couldn't he have gotten some Microsoft and Cisco certifications and gone into enterprise IT?

[Indy Texas]

You have this schizophrenic approach to job seeking. One minute, you could see yourself doing Job X for a lifelong career, the next it's just a stopgap job until CADD materializes. You're worried about "thugs" attacking you as an Uber driver but expect that doing grunt work at a car dealership is going to enable you to be around more upstanding people. (Expect a lot of criminal records and easy contacts if you want some weed.)

[Indy Texas]

I am ready to settle down into a career and I think this Help Desk could be the ticket to do just that.

But are you still planning to move to Kenya in a few years?  You're going to settle down into a career, before leaving it behind to live in Kenya?

If things fall in place, then yes, Kenya is still in the plans.  I'm confident they will.  A Help Desk job would be a good way to make the money needed to pay off my debt and make the move to Kenya.  If things for Kenya do not fall in place, which I do not believe will happen, a Help Desk career can be a good way to save up for retirement.

Yes, I often hear about those retired Help Desk associates living the high life in their gated golf course communities while the rest of us have to barely scrape by.

[Indy Texas]

I am ready to settle down into a career and I think this Help Desk could be the ticket to do just that.

But are you still planning to move to Kenya in a few years?  You're going to settle down into a career, before leaving it behind to live in Kenya?

If things fall in place, then yes, Kenya is still in the plans.  I'm confident they will.  A Help Desk job would be a good way to make the money needed to pay off my debt and make the move to Kenya.  If things for Kenya do not fall in place, which I do not believe will happen, a Help Desk career can be a good way to save up for retirement.

Yes, I often hear about those retired Help Desk associates living the high life in their gated golf course communities while the rest of us have to barely scrape by.

Overreacting much?  Help Desk employees have to work for their retirement like everybody else, but a retirement should be made available to everyone.  I did not insinuate that Help Desk'ers are privileged in anyway.

[Indy Texas]

I never said I didn't have problems, in fact I have many.  What I'm saying is God doesn't see me as a failure.  He sees me as a success because I have trusted Him as my Savior and Lord.  Without Him, I am a complete and utter wreck, but with Him I have been made new.  If God, who is the ultimate authority of my life and who holds the deed to my life, doesn't see me as a failure then why would I see myself as a failure.  I don't have it all figured out.  But, I serve a God who does.

So have a lot of horrid people, Jeff. Efraín Ríos Montt was a murderous dictator in Guatemala who was responsible for the death, oppression and impoverishment of hundreds of thousands of people. But he was a born-again Christian. Are you telling me that God views him as a success???

[Indy Texas]

Indy, as strange as it may sound.  If that dictator was truly a born again Christian then yes God views him as a success.  God doesn't look at actions to judge whether one enters heaven or not, He judges solely by the heart and whether that heart has accepted His Son's sacrifice as atonement.  No sin is worse than any other sin.  If you think that's a horrible God, then look at it this way, nobody deserves heaven.  We all deserve hell.  He extends His grace freely to anyone who would believe regardless of good or bad deeds.  Even the best thing we could do is a filthy rag in the sight of God, so He extends His grace to cover our sin.  When God looks at Christians, He sees Us through the blood of Jesus, not for what we really are (which is total worthlessness).

Bushie, do you realize how despicable and dangerous that type of ideology is? 

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG with Bushie's religious beliefs. You have NO RIGHT to judge his beliefs. DO NOT MOCK HIS FAITH!

[Indy Texas]

Well here's the facts: There are plenty of high level IT workers who wear band shirts and sports jerseys with torn jeans to work and make six figures. And if you want to avoid people getting high, that is definitely NOT your field either, it's more of a question of if people are at least waiting until they get home to get high or are secretly doing it at work as well.

I'm not denying that there are people like this, but both my parents' careers are in this field and I've worked in it as well and that hasn't been my experience at all. There tends to be a large population of foreign-born workers at every office; while they dress casually for work, they are generally conservative in their lifestyle, and that sets the tone for the rest of the office. It might be different in more Internet- and consumer-oriented businesses, but in general Silicon Valley does not look like Silicon Valley.

There's also a huge difference in corporate culture between a Silicon Valley startup and a more established "old tech" firm like HP or IBM.

[Indy Texas]

I've always wanted to know this, why do you have the Kenyan flag under your username?

Revisit previous seasons of Update (some have been deleted, fyi), and earlier this season dating back to March 2012 for details of my love for Kenya.

Bushie, will you respond to my PM about breakfast smoothie recipes that you might enjoy?  Contrary to popular Oklahoman belief, atheists do not eat babies and I guarantee you there are no babies in my smoothie recipe.  

(but really, it a thing I've been doing for a month and I have tons more energy)

I would like to hear about your breakfast smoothie recipes.

I will only give out my delicious smoothie recipes if Bushie follows through with trying it.

Damn it, Hockey, you know that's never gonna happen. And I'm getting tired of drinking blueberries and chia seeds morning after morning.

[Indy Texas]

A simple search shows most likely it was about how some guy killed some dude outside his ex gf house. You were probably nappin when it happened

OMFG, can you imagine if they call Bushie as a witness?

Jeff will be the Rachel Jeantel of Oklahoma, memes and all.

[Indy Texas]

Yes, sadly, these recruiters are risking their own careers every time they place ODF at a firm.

I went to high school with the daughter of a very sought-after executive recruiter who has helped fill upper management positions at a lot of the Fortune 500 companies in Texas. He does a small number of very high-level placements that require months of meetings and due diligence.

At the other end of the spectrum, it's about numbers and churn. They get paid when ODF signs on the dotted line. If he gets escorted out of the building 60 days later, that just means another opportunity to shove another warm body through the door and collect another fee.

[Indy Texas]

It's okay because he ate the strawberry slice that was a garnish on the side of the plate.

[Indy Texas]

I did not have a Cinnabon.  I had a cinnamon roll from Braum's.

That means about as much to me as the time I listened to a woman get all huffy in the middle of a deposition and clarify that she was not working as a stripper at the time her common-law husband was killed, but rather was a cocktail waitress at a strip club.

[Indy Texas]

Good Sunday Morning!  I woke up with a pretty large headache so I am staying home from church this morning.  The two main things I am going to watch today are the 2015 Daytona 500 on FOX at 1200 and the Denver Nuggets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder on Fox Sports Oklahoma at 1800.  I will resume the water drinking today.  I've got to behave myself today as I did take a peek of the scale today and it had jumped to 288 which is up 2 1/2 pounds from where I was Friday morning.  In between the Great American Race and the Thunder game, I will put on a coat and take a walk.

Resume the water drinking? When was the last time you drank any water? And don't you think that might have something to do with your headache?

No point in even discussing the diet, since even if it was your intention to stay on it, you've already basically destroyed any progress made on that front.

[Indy Texas]

wait wait wait...

what exactly is Jesus going to put Bushie in charge of once he's in Heaven?!

heaven help desk

Heaven help us. Get ready for an eternity without WiFi because Bushie's fat fingers can't reach the reset button on the back of the router.

[Indy Texas]

Duke asks a good question. Why do you still bother with Bible study when you basically have it all figured out?

He goes for Jesus. He stays for the taco salad potluck.

[Indy Texas]

How did Bushie accidentally have sex?

He tripped and fell while she happened to be lying on the floor using a thighmaster.

[Indy Texas]

some African children, who are probably no longer with us (RIP).

Unlike with JJ aka Blondie, this particular RIP is not really Bushie's fault though. We can't expect Bushie to transform Africa into a livable place for destitute orphans.

What if there is a Bushie Cargo Cult existing in rural Africa? His "children" grow up associating letters from him with his picture with getting toiletries and clothing and basic household goods. They document these events in a book that they copy and distribute to others. And they insist that just as Bushie once visited them in Africa, someday, he will come again a second time - a Second Coming, if you will.

[Indy Texas]

Papa Bushie is going to have a booze-strippers-and-blow blowout in the Train Room to celebrate the possibility that he actually will get to retire after all.

[Indy Texas]

You may also want to develop at least a superficial familiarity with how wines pair with meat, poultry and fish. I know that at the HEB supermarkets in more well-to-do neighborhoods around here, they often try to cross-promote their products by having their meats section suggest wines to go with different products, and vice versa. You may think alcohol is the Devil's liquid but most people do not.

[Indy Texas]

Bushie has a doppelganger in New Jersey...Hockey, you need to investigate this stat:

"Man Who Burned Face Praying Over Sizzling Fajitas Can't Sue Applebee's"

[Indy Texas]

No surprise here, folks. Bushie not only bought a new phone that he didn't need, but he bought the accessories for it at the retailer at their inflated prices.

Car charger? They sell cigarette lighter USB adapters on eBay/Amazon/et al, some for less than a dollar. You can plug your lightning cable into it, plug the adapter into your car's cigarette lighter and charge it that way.

Case? Again, no excuse for paying more than $10 for one online. I'm guessing you paid full retail price for an $80 OtterBox case at Sprint?

[Indy Texas]

No surprise here, folks. Bushie not only bought a new phone that he didn't need, but he bought the accessories for it at the retailer at their inflated prices.

Car charger? They sell cigarette lighter USB adapters on eBay/Amazon/et al, some for less than a dollar. You can plug your lightning cable into it, plug the adapter into your car's cigarette lighter and charge it that way.

Case? Again, no excuse for paying more than $10 for one online. I'm guessing you paid full retail price for an $80 OtterBox case at Sprint?

Nope, a simple $20 drop protection case.

That you could have gotten for less than half that online.

[Indy Texas]

Doesn't Bushie also have a tablet, a laptop, and a desktop? (And what does he actually do with all of this stuff?!) And this along with the premium cable... hard not to find it all a little ridiculous. 

CADD. Porn.

[Indy Texas]

I find it ironic that meanwhile, I don't have cable and I'm "making do" with an iPhone 5S, despite the fact that I make more money than Bushie does, and probably still made more than he does in an average year even when I was in grad school and only working part time.

[Indy Texas]

I find it ironic that meanwhile, I don't have cable and I'm "making do" with an iPhone 5S, despite the fact that I make more money than Bushie does, and probably still made more than he does in an average year even when I was in grad school and only working part time.

Look at you, so high and proud.  Want a cookie?

You mean you haven't eaten all of them yourself?