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Long story short, I am an unrepentant sarcastic liberal nerd. \u00a0I blame this on both nature and nurture, as I was born into an Irish family who values quick thinking, jokes, and doing our best to enjoy life while on this spinning rock in space.<\/p>\n
I also tend to be a bit of a cynic, probably from a combination of life experiences and a career on software quality assurance, where being a cynic is a survival trait. \u00a0I have many hopes, many regrets, and try to find a nice balance between them. \u00a0I also tend to be a bit self-deprecating, another side-effect of growing up in an Irish-American culture, where sometimes self-aggrandizing is simply bragging, and you don’t want to get too full of yourself. \u00a0That’s not the Irish way.<\/p>\n
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As for the domain, and many references you will see to Easter, it’s all based on an old story involving my great-uncle Jack and his then-girlfriend\/later-wife Helen, and his aunt. \u00a0The way the story goes, Helen was nervous meeting Jack’s aunt, a stern woman from the auld sod, and desperately wanted to make a good impression. \u00a0So as the family gathered for Easter dinner, he suggested speaking a few phrases of Irish Gaelic to her. \u00a0Helen did not know any, so he taught her how to say “Happy Easter”. \u00a0Well, sort of. \u00a0He told her it was said “pog mo thoin”.<\/a>\u00a0 So Helen went up and greeted his aunt with what she thought was a traditional greeting, and of course, everyone immediately knew who was to blame.<\/p>\n This is the kind of family I grew up in.<\/p>\n Anyhow, this is a very important bit here. \u00a0Everything contained in this blog is my opinion, and mine alone. \u00a0Not my family’s, not my employer’s, not my friends’, and possibly not yours. \u00a0If you don’t like it, well, Happy Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long story short, I am an unrepentant sarcastic liberal nerd. \u00a0I blame this on both nature and nurture, as I was born into an Irish family who values quick thinking, jokes, and doing our best to enjoy life while … Continue reading