Jer Lance

Search
Skip to content
  • About
  • Contact
  • Now
  • On the Web
    • Calendar
    • Gift List
  • Resume

Daily Archives: 2017-05-21

Being a Professional

2017-05-21 jer_

For the past 20 minutes or so, I’ve been sitting at a table at a professional conference—an impostor in the natural habitat of the Business Professional. Continue reading Being a Professional →

conferencesconsmesocialwork

Recent Books

Skeleton Crew
Watchmen
A Dirty Job
The Princess Bride
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
Fool
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Thief
Zoe's Tale
The Golden Compass
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Memnoch the Devil
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Animal Farm
Saga, Volume 1
The F-Word: Feminism In Jeopardy - Women, Politics and the Future
Saga, Volume 2
The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein
Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith
Warbreaker


Jer's favorite books »

Recent Tweets

  • The newest Charlie's Angels was fun...I enjoyed it. It did not deserve the thrashing it got. Some of the "grrrl pow… https://t.co/wAnKc8ICjz20 hours ago
  • Just got done working out the details for my next tattoo...with this I will be almost entirely done with my left ar… https://t.co/6HbIpnXCYWyesterday
  • The impossible heist pulling an expert out of retirement for one last score... The reluctant warrior returning to… https://t.co/LGE4tcE5X4yesterday
  • RT @mjg59: He's making a list He's checking it twice He's got no idea who's naughty or nice Data consistency in a distributed environment i…2 days ago
  • Bobcat Goldthwait https://t.co/etvtuB1LxQ3 days ago

RSS Recent Toots

  • New status by jer_ 2019-12-08
    Just got done working out the details for my next tattoo...with this I will be almost entirely done with my left arm! Can't wait for January! #xp
  • New status by jer_ 2019-12-06
    Imagine if you owned the shop that adventures came to for their gear before defending town from monsters...that's Bargain Quest, and it's stupid amounts of fun! #xp
  • New status by jer_ 2019-12-04
    I can't remember if I've mentioned this yet or not...but even if I have, it bears repeating...@selfconference@twitter.com's CFP is open until January 25th! If you have a tech talk or a "soft skills" talk you've been dying to give, do it! https://selfconference.org/accounts/sessions
  • New status by jer_ 2019-12-03
    Today I got my first eye exam in two decades. Shocker, I need glasses! I expect I'll be slightly less squinty in about a week or so.I'm pretty ambivalent toward my transition back to bespectacledness; I'm less so toward having my pupils dilated...that was a shitshow! #xp
  • New status by jer_ 2019-12-02
    Sure, you're exhausted and you should be asleep; but--hear me out now--you could be inexplicably awake!You're going with inexplicably awake?Excellent choice, enjoy a day of misery tomorrow! #xp

Archives

Bloviating Wildly

Recent Posts

  • The End of an Era 2019-02-02
  • 16 Years of Gratitude 2018-10-19
  • Social Media Musings 2018-09-17
  • The Cleverness of Intent Over Content 2018-07-15
  • Penguicon 2018 Panels 2018-03-26

Frequent Tags

  • addiction
  • agile
  • camping
  • Christmas
  • conferences
  • cons
  • development
  • entertainment
  • essay
  • extra life
  • family
  • fandom
  • feminism
  • gaming
  • humor
  • integrity
  • kayaking
  • language
  • leadership
  • life
  • links
  • love
  • management
  • me
  • medical
  • meta
  • music
  • offsite
  • politics
  • presenting
  • press
  • pseudointellectualism
  • rant
  • relationship
  • sarcasm
  • scrum
  • social
  • teaching
  • tech
  • tmi
  • travel
  • twitter
  • wedding
  • work
  • writing
May 2017
S M T W T F S
« Apr   Jul »
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
©2007-2016 Jer Lance (https://jerlance.com)
Privacy Policy Proudly powered by WordPress