Here is the slideshow of all images taken (so you don’t have to bounce to flickr). For you nerds out there, I used the Flickr API and a sweet WordPress plugin “slickr-flickr” for this.
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Here are some more photos from Varrow Madness yesterday. Had a great time and got to do some awesome networking with Varrow Folks, EMC, VCE, Isilon and other people who are customers or partners of Varrow.
This was one of the best one day conferences I have been to and I really enjoyed the event. I even got to break a VPLEX lab! Serves me right for trying to ‘play around’ with the demo and not follow the directions to the T.
More Photos:
Varrow Madness Part Two
Hi, I’m sitting here at Varrow Madness. I decided to bring my camera today. If you are missing this event, it is great. Almost like a Mini- EMCWorld. A ton of people here.
The rest of the set can be viewed here:
Another personality type for you. The Rockstar. This person can write Korn-Shell scripts while listening to KORN or even playing KORN – Word Up! one handed on Rock Band. So skilled at their job, but you would never know it when they are walking down the street that they are a true nerd at heart until you start talking to them.
The typical career entry for the Rockstar isn’t the way most people get into their careers. Most Rockstar personalities would rather ‘hack’ their way into a job than to take the normal route of studying in college, getting a degree, an internship and a mediocre programming job at their daddy’s pesticide business. This is the guy you run into in the computer labs late at night, wearing dark clothes, combat boots and sporting a pack of Camels next to his two litre of Mountain Dew. Yes, that email you got last week about changing your password because all Engineering lab accounts were hacked? That was him. He wouldn’t ever tell anyone because his true passion is now moved from hacking into your university accounts to using their IP space to hack into some secret government compound…or just finding out if he can hack the Camel website to see if he can get more Camel bucks to buy a new Joe the Camel shirt. Continue reading
Before my Angry Eye Crazyness, I had just received a new EMC NS-480 on the floor at my work. Because I like to remain as anonymous as possible as to where I work because this is my personal blog, I will layout the requirements given to me, my spec’d out configuration and the justifications I used for everything. This is in part to my good friends and colleagues at EMC, my awesome account team and of course my VMware architect who is super smart and keeps me in check every time I might have some crazy idea about how VMware should run. That being said and to protect the innocent all names have been omitted. Also, for those who don’t know me, I never try to claim any ideas are my own. I think the best ideas come from a team effort, good research and well sometimes W.A.G.’s (Wild a$$ guesses). Continue reading
Hi everyone,
I would send a newsletter, but this font is much larger…let me explain.
Feb 3rd, I underwent corrective LASIK surgery due to my severe Miopia (Nearsightedness) at Duke University Eye Center. These people really know what they are doing. If you are considering LASIK, I still think it is worth it, but I had a slight complication due to my genetics, not LASIK itself. Oh and my sudden stupidity as well. This is not a story to bash LASIK. I think it is a safe procedure. If anything this story is a reason NOT to bargin shop your eyes. Especially when they start to get angry.
I have what is known as Recurrent Corneal Erosion, which means…I have loose Epithelial cells on top of the anterior stroma. This was not noticed pre-lasik, because it is very hard to identify if you have never had any eye trauma (which since I’ve worn glasses since age 12, they have sort-of protected me for a long time). What basically happens is that the Epithelial cells (Outside “Skin” of the eye) are just not sticking correctly and adhering the surface of the cornea (the anterior stroma) properly. Well, the stroma as I have discovered has the most nerve endings of any part of the human body. Very painful when the Epithelial cells are loose. Luckily for me, the Epithelial cells are the fastest growing cells in the human body, but when you have recurrent corneal erosion, they heal, and then break away and heal again and….well it is a vicious and painful cycle.
For me, the right eye has been this way since the surgery but was starting to heal and the left eye has been good. BUT, here is the ‘stupid me’ part. I was driving to the EMC Midrange Storage Dinner last Wednesday evening and I caused a corneal abrasion with the tip of a eye dropper while driving 65 mph down I-40 towards Durham, NC. Welllll, great. Now I have two bad eyes, it’s dark out and I wasn’t wearing sunglasses (sorry blues brother’s is still one of my all time favorite movies).
Last Thursday the miracle workers at the Duke University Eye Center (BEST DOCTORS EVER) placed contact lens bandages on both of my eyes. To my surprise Friday and even Saturday were GREAT. I was seeing 20/20 again and feeling awesome. If you read me tweets from last Saturday you can see that I may have had a beer or two and was enjoying my time and well, feeling awesome. Then…I went to sleep.
Sunday morning I woke up and I felt like I was cutting Onions. I was crying a lot but it was burning so much. Constantly…for like 4 hours. The Daytona 500 was on and it was so bad I went to see the AWESOME doctors at Duke before the race finished. They concluded what I did, and felt… another recurrent corneal erosion caused by the contacts slipping on the eye. OUCH. If someone can please comment on this post and let me know who won the Daytona 500 that would be great.
Monday came and they removed the contacts. My left eye began to heal again and felt OK Tuesday morning, but my right eye was very very ANGRY. My wonderful Eye Doctor/Surgeon was busy with 9 other surgeries that day so the Chief of the Duke Eye Center offered to fix my eye for me at 1:30pm. I took him up on his great offer. About one hour later he had removed the diseased epithelia on the surface of my eye and used some high tech lasers to smooth the surface. The theory (which is very successful with some of the medical journals I have been reading) is that the new cells that grow back will be much healthier than the old ones.
I went home and rested thanks to the valium they gave me during the surgery and my new friend Oxycodone-Acetaminophen 5-325 which calmed the ANGRY EYE. I knew something was up with the drugs when I think I talked to my Dad for about an hour and a half about the miracles of computers, lasers, model trains and the stock market, yet I don’t recall the whole conversation.
Today, the surgery is even better. I go in for more testing tomorrow, but I’m 20/30 in the left eye and blurry in the right, but tomorrow I expect to see even better. Maybe I’ll even type something about storage…oh wait, did I mention that I got paid today and the paycheck system resides on a EMC DMX3-2500 and a DMX4-950? Ok there you go, some storage stuff.
Beware…the ANGRY EYE
@sangeek
This is great.
I am going to EMC this morning to attend a 2 day seminar on the manufacturing, hardware and software ins and outs of EMC’s newest lines of midrange storage products.
Formally ‘Clariion Days’, this gives the customer a closer look at EMC offerings and allows us to ask direct questions to software engineers. Providing this interaction and feedback is great. I recall back in the days of the CX3 offering suggestions in Navisphere and in a relatively short period of time, those suggestions actually getting into code. One of the latest interfaces, Unisphere is a combination of a lot of what was good about Navisphere and Celerra manager. This is put together as a common manager (which was needed for a long time) for the bread and butter of the midrange storage line (Clariion, Celerra, NS, and VNX).
I’m excited to have seen the early beta versions and what is out now.
Today and tomorrow I plan on taking a bunch of notes and hopefully be able to post it up on here by the weekend?
@sangeek
The Unix Beard
Everyone has seen one of these, but in order to define the UNIX beard one might have to ask themselves, “How on Earth did UNIX and the BEARD originate into a worldwide phenomenon or personality type in IT?”. Ok, maybe YOU aren’t asking yourself but I certainly am, especially since I am very interested in different personality types in IT and also how they pertain to culture withen an organization.
So, I present to you one of the oldest and recognized personality types. That Dude with the Unix Beard. If he were to even go to the beach, he would be the one sitting on a chair, probably have one of the portable tent things to block the sun from his obviously been indoors too much skin. Maybe a cross between ZZ-Top and Milton from Office Space. Yes, that Milton…with a beard….Get it? OK, now that you have that visualized, imagine that same dude reading a book about how Mosaic revolutionized the Modern Day Web Browser, or how Netscape Killed Gopher.
See, over the past few years I have found that the UNIX beard guy is a generational thing and this personality type, at least in recent years has become almost somewhat of a rare species. They are still out there, but they seem to be more and more No-It-All-College-Grads, Rockstar and Uber Introvert personality types in IT (more on those in subsequent blog postings).
The original UNIX beard comes from the inventors themselves. Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie:
A few people have dared to copy them, but these guys are heros to many nerds and geeks. In fact, they are kinda my heros. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be typing this blog and probably still be using a Rolodex and who knows what my career would be.
I hope you enjoyed this little post. I would like to elaborate a bit more on the Unix Beard personality type, but I will save that for a followup sometime in the future. Or maybe when I publish my book?
@sangeek
