The Caffeinated Penguin

Posted By matt on January 16, 2004

It's been a long two days.
Crash course in SCO history, IRC style

So, I had a long series of meetings yesterday and today, and one of them culminated in me going toe to toe in heated discussion with our divisional president (the division that does about 90 million in sales a year) over open source stuff. It actually was productive – he argued well, made good points, and I think a lot of it is playing devil's advocate. However, he LISTENED, and he's one of the first people at this company to do that. Anyway, I think it scared some of the more conservative engineers in the group – the man could have fired me, kicked me out of the meeting, etc. and instead he actually sat there and we tried to convince each other for like half an hour. After the meeting, several people remarked at how surprised they were that he actually kept talking to me, and how I could have gotten myself into a lot of trouble. They're right. But, I'm too young and too mobile to bite my tongue when I have an idea. I'm not going to knuckle under, either. In all, I think it was productive, and I feel good about it. I also need to send him an email and tell him that I appreciate him listening.

Last night was an party at a Greek restaurant. It was okay. I drank pretty heavily – 3 whiskey sours and an old fashioned, which is a lot for me. Made me happy and pleasant. Tonight was similar, we went up to Santa Barbara and hit a good mexican place and 4 engineers drank 2 pitchers of margaritas. So, we were happy. Then we took a walk down the wharf and came back home.

Mikey and Arthur
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Liz got some fresh catnip
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Time to go to bed.

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