Posted in coolness, music, Real Life

What On Earth is Scrumming?

About 5 years ago, my project manager at Fidelity asked my coworker and I to attend a class in North Carolina so we could be a pilot Agile project team. The class they were running was for becoming certified Scrum Masters, so that’s what we became. It’s been a long time since that training, or at least it feels that way. My coworker and I were laid off, I got rehired into a different business unit and a few years ago I accepted a retirement package offer and moved to Europe to live in a castle.
No, wait, I got another job, my “post-career career”. I’m still immersed in websites and giving users the best experience we can. And still working with or adjacent to Agile Scrum Teams.

At our last Quarterly planning meeting I said “I should have my son write an Agile Song” for the next quarterly planning meeting. Which starts tomorrow.
Behold the song I created with my son. I wrote the lyrics, and he did everything else including re-organizing them, making a couple of changes, and blowing me the heck away. The last time we did this, we wrote the song “The Big W” about “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and I won’t pick favorites, I love them equally.

The song will eventually be available on Apple Music, Amazon Music and others, probably under the band name “Just Ducky” so Mike won’t have to sully his Outlyer brand with weird songs his mother wrote.


Spotify Link! https://open.spotify.com/track/0YPV6jllu0ZcJPqNJui3y9?si=5e6714214c0e4e05

Or listen at https://www.bigdumptruck.com/agile-song/

(And The Big W is here.)

The Agile Song (Scrumming)
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Posted in humor, Real Life, TV

Re-Writing Emergency TV Show Dialog

“Do not call it “the abandoned oil refinery” if it’s full of people and things are turned on!”
….
“Sir, I told you to “take it easy” and you were clearly not taking it easy”.

“I yelled ‘is anybody up here’ twice and you didn’t answer so it’s not my fault we never found you.”

“Sir, we can’t move this tank of your leg, so you live here now.”

“There are enough people in the exploding abandoned refinery that pretty soon we might need to call it the haunted refinery.”

- Me giving John Gage new dialog while watching 70's TV Show "Emergency" after half an old-fashioned

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Posted in stuff

I Got It Back!

The Asian Porn site dumped my domain and I grabbed it back! Now to configure the Nameservers and whatnot. See you soon, my old Jodysitting site!

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Posted in Brain Dump, Podcast, Real Life

Old Domains

Since I started buying domains 28 or so years ago, I’ve owned quite a few that I chose to let go, and others that I forgot to renew. It’s not good when that happens. It’s not good when that happens and it’s an active domain. Yes, I lost the good short version url for my podcast. Over a year ago. I’m still bitter.

See, I’ve been waiting for the Asian porn site that bought it to realize how little traffic the site had, and let it go. It was up for renewal in December. Finally! Then…they renewed it. Even though it doesn’t resolve right now (or is such a horror show that my phone just pretends it can’t find it.)

I still own the longer full name of the podcast but I preferred the shorter one and damn it, I want it back! WordPress keeps trying to tell me there’s something wrong with it but I can’t log in to repoint the site because they can’t email me because I don’t have that email address any more. I really hosed myself.

I was looking at some of the other domains one can buy, and as much as I think some are cool, I’m not paying the prices they are asking. And who bought the .quest version of the domain? And what are they questing for?

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