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I accepted an offer from f5 Networks this morning. I’ll be a “Performance Lab Engineer” there and will do my best to make the internet a faster, safer, place for everyone!

Vrrrooommm…

Yay me!

May I be happy.
May I be loved.
May all my suffering be healed.
May I be at peace.

(((now)))

May you be happy.
May you be loved.
May all your suffering be healed.
May you be at peace.

(((now)))

May all sentients be happy.
May all sentients be loved.
May all sentients suffering be healed.
May all sentients be at peace.

(((now)))

~ michael mallette maloney

Patiently waiting for my background check to go through so f5 can finalize an offer - making Safeco wait on these results so I can exercise choice in this matter.

Choice is good…

Waiting sucks.

It is easy to see the faults of others; we winnow them like chaff. It is hard to see our own; we hide them as a gambler hides a losing draw. But when one keeps dwelling on the faults of others, his own compulsions grow worse, making it harder to overcome them.

Dhammapada 18:252-3

The Safeco interview yesterday went well. So well that they extended an offer this morning. Five minutes prior to that f5 Networks called with their final interview schedule for tomorrow, starting at noon, a six hour ordeal. Now I have some leverage to speed their process up a bit too. Either way I will be working again starting on October 3rd I just don’t know if it is going to be on the waterfront or U-District. Either one works for me.

Yay!

This has been an intensely interesting time of introspection, angst, and hard work since July 13th. I managed to burn many bridges along the way but have reached the other side with my sanity and health intact. In fact I would venture to say that I have found my center in all this. That calm abiding place, that undisturbed, houses the atman, my soul. From this new found shore I stake a new claim: to live, love, and to honor this place that I call home.

It is time for the cleansing rains to fall.

JAI!!

I am myself.

The other is simply something else.

I am what I am.

If I am a demon, very well, then I am a demon.

That is all.

~ Svami Prajnanpad

f5 Networks finally called back along with Klir Technologies, Safeco, and Digeo. Going to be a busy week of interviews.

“Things are gonna’ change I can feel it.” ~ Beck

*fingers crossed*

In other news. The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government’s political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you’re actually being screwed.

Thanks Eddie!

I wish.

I had to break out the leather for the first time in a long while this morning; it’s scent bearing memories of yesteryear. Summer seems to be over and the monsoon has come early. Here’s hoping for an indian summer in October.

and I pray these rains will wash this slate clean…

Have you ever done a google search for ‘failure’?

very interesting results… failure

in case the sort order changes here is a link to the #1 result as of 9/13/05

I am not one to shun or turn away from the truth either, no matter how brutal it is, but it always seemed natural to turn towards beauty.* Yet I look around and all I can see is ugliness in my world today. I find myself walking a razors edge between the beauty that might be and the foulness that is…

One who stays focused on the beautiful,
is unrestrained with the senses,
knowing no moderation in food,
apathetic, unenergetic:
Mara overcomes him
as the wind, a weak tree.

One who stays focused on the foul,
is restrained with regard to the senses,
knowing moderation in food,
full of conviction & energy:
Mara does not overcome him
as the wind, a mountain of rock.

-Dhammapada, 1, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

I am at a loss right now… between chapters, yet unable to turn the page.

to be continued…

* some resonant words cribbed from SENSEI!

I was sweating that one but the interview went really, really well. He wants me to come in for the next round and then told me I was the first person in three months to get this far.

Um, thanks?

Feeling no pressure now, nope…

I have a job interview (third one) with f5 Networks tomorrow. I have been nervously cramming for it for the past two days, my head swimming in networking jargon and acronyms, trying to shore up my TCP/IP and 1337 h@X0r skillz. (see what I mean?) Wikipedia has been the most amazing resource. I love this here intardnet!

fingers crossed…

Think good thoughts ok?

Well that’s odd. I post some Chuck D lyrics that are ‘found’ a day later by a journalist doing a google search, who wrote the next day about the response to Hurricane Katrina which included a link to my blog; 24 hours later I have (as of this posting) nearly a thousand views of this blog:

Total: 990
Average Per Day: 108
Average Visit Length: 0:35
Last Hour: 37
Today: 176
This Week: 757

WTF!

With an average visit length of 0:35 I know most of you aren’t even reading all of what Chuck has to say (let alone my rambling) but a few of you have spent nearly half-an-hour here. Bored at work? Haha! Been there…

filed under things that make the internet hum

In other news I think I want to be a “Performance Lab Engineer” for f5 when I grow up - maybe next week? I might have a few tantrums to throw first…