Re: Friday Questions (several)

[arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com]

Sharyn Weizman <SharynW -at- fundtech -dot- co -dot- il> asked a bunch of questions:

Here is a list long of Friday TECHWHRL questions. I hope they spur some 
input.

 Is it Friday already? Dang, what happened to Thursday?
  *Searching to see if it fell into a pocket or was squashed under a 
shoe.*

1. What newsletters do you subscribe to (technical, language-related, 
misc.)?

  Sometimes I think I write nearly as many newsletters as I subscribe 
to, but the topics include tech comm, linguistics, CRM, science, space, 
science fiction, literature, media, medieval/renaissance reenactment 
and costuming, computers, software, gaming, and that's not including a 
whole slew of online listserves, blogs, and yahoogroups. Yes, I'm 
_always_ reading something. See answer #3 below.

2. What sites do you bookmark and access regularly?

 www.google.com
 www.sundancedigital.com
 www.stc-dfw.org
 www.fencon.org
 www.cnet.com
 www.wired.com
 www.techdirt.com
 www.amazon.com
 groups.yahoo.com/group...
 tc.eserver.org
 sourceforge.net
 slashdot.org
 en.wikipedia.org
 et cetera ad nauseum

3.  What diversions do you subscribe to or regularly access?  How much 
time a day do you feel is justified in accessing/reading these kinds of 
things? (A former team leader suggested 5 minutes for every hour.)

  I have the curiosity and the attention span of an ADHD kitten. 
Everything is a diversion. For instance, I'll be googling item "A" 
(related to one of our products) and one of the web pages describing 
"A" also mentions item "B," so I click the link... Next thing I know, 
I'm reading about the seasonal habits of Southeastern tuna ...or 
whatever. As soon as I realize I've gone off track, I pull myself back. 
That could be 10 seconds or 10 minutes later.

4. And perhaps to put everything in proportion, how many hours a week 
were you hired to work and do you actually work?

  All of them! I'm salary, so I work anytime, anywhere. I even work in 
my sleep: I wake up in the morning and make a list of things I dreamt 
about in the hopes that I can accomplish them in this lifetime! 
According to the Federal Government, I only work 40 hours a week. I 
suppose that's the amount left over when you subtract the 'diversions' 
and whatnot.

:D
Arroxane
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