Category: Rant

Oh, that was a mistake

I tried watching Bulworth, which I’d Tivo’ed off of VH1. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a movie on VH1 before, and I don’t think I will again. They bleep everything. And not just real swear words, but stuff you hear on network TV all the time, like “God damn”. And not just a nice blanking out of the word, or a simple “bleep”, but what sounds like the beep they use for Emergency Broadcast System tests (before they went to the modem-tone noise they use now). Most of the movie sounded like a Western Union telegraph office.

I think I’m going to have to join Netflicks just so I can get movies like this.

Bad Job Experiences, Number 3 in a Series

After I left the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, I moved to Ottawa to work for GeoVision, which was a small company that had recently been spun off of SHL (SystemHouse). I was hired as part of a big expansion as they went from 25 people to 50. GeoVision made a Geographic Information System (GIS), and it was probably the most capable one out there, although it was a bit slow.
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