I hear you. I'm in two minds as to whether I go for a Head of Development job as it has a requirements list a mile long (because as well as managing the teams and directly reporting to CEO you should be prepared to keep updating your coding skill set and crank out solutions like all the other code monkeys). To me it looks like a job that two people would be better at than one, but maybe that's just me.

Journalistic rigor mortis

At a review (KPIs, fuck them) when the possibility of raises not happening was mentioned if after number crunching - where all non-tangible benefit you bring to the team and the company is discarded as irrelevant - you didn't do as well as it was hoped (read "expected"), I casually asked "not even for cost of living increases?" (that wasn't even 2% according to RPI) and was met with a disbelieving look as if I'd asked to film a blowbang with his wife and daughters.

I don't work there any more.

Yeah, I have a life that doesn't involve being in front of a screen all fucking day. That's why I *don't* have a mountain of code written on my own time, because it's nice to be outside doing other pointless shit.

"It's the only way to be sure"

SomaFM has some good streams indeed. Currently Drone Zone is my favourite, with Groove Salad a close second.

There was no way that bucket of bolts would make it past the clubhouse.

Stop. He has the weirding way...

Their refusal is "justified", though.

My sunglasses are in my other jacket...

You forgot pup, hospital, yurt and marquee. Plus the rarely seen big top.

How many tenses do you think there are in English? I'll bet your guess isn't high enough, every though you probably use must of them without realising every day.

Microsoft has assumed users are drooling morons for 20 years, based on the decision of drooling moron managers that hiding the extension was a good idea. If those particular drooling morons had STFU and taken the trouble of learning something instead of treating everyone as though they were as dumb as them billions of dollars would have been saved.

Consider that the British Isles is not particularly big so all the things that would normally be separated by hundreds of miles of deserted wilderness in US are relatively close together over here: Sellafield, Anthrax island, Porton Down, etc. If shit goes down here we don't have a spacious bolthole (Snowdonia and the Highlands don't count). This is part of the horror; nowhere to feasibly run and hide. Anywhere you think of is also where so many others will also think of as to make running pointless.

Beep beep.

Appositely enough (next lines):
... And I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride