{"id":127,"date":"2006-09-25T00:09:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T07:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-09-25T00:09:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T07:09:04","slug":"general-ranting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"General ranting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok &#8211; so the flight to Sedona was awesome, the trip was awesome, the flight home was perhaps the best I have ever had, and the US got absolutely stomped in the Ryder Cup.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I need to get a few items off my chest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raising a child is the hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever done, without question, and by far the most rewarding.\u00c2\u00a0 The idea that people write their children off because it is too much work doesn&#8217;t just secure them a special place in hell &#8211; it makes them disgusting, horrible human beings that should not be associated with.<\/li>\n<li>Easily the most important part of running my own business is the potential it has to allow me to employ a bunch of really smart people and treat them well.\u00c2\u00a0 I simply cannot BELIEVE how many people don&#8217;t get the importance of this in life.<\/li>\n<li>Java is robust and mature.\u00c2\u00a0 LAMP is not.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the END of that conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 Use what you want, and shut up about it.<\/li>\n<li>Offshore development is not stealing jobs from Americans.\u00c2\u00a0 It is taking commodotized jobs and moving them to where they belong &#8211; like making TV&#8217;s, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 If your job is being sent to India, or Russia, or China, it&#8217;s because you have not been paying attention.\u00c2\u00a0 Upgrade your skills, work harder, and &#8211; again &#8211; shut up about it.<\/li>\n<li>MS SQL is not a &#8220;toy&#8221; &#8211; it is a serious tool that works well in virtually any case.\u00c2\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t created a multi-million row database in MS SQL, and are saying it is a toy, you don&#8217;t know what you are talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 See posts above about shutting up.<\/li>\n<li>Getting your shit together health-wise turns out to feel good and make you live longer.\u00c2\u00a0 It really isn&#8217;t something you should be congratulated for.\u00c2\u00a0 Like not going to jail, not beating your kids, and not stealing from people, it&#8217;s just something you SHOULD do.\u00c2\u00a0 Being unhealthy and fat, on the other hand, is something that society should be making people feel bad about.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole &#8220;big and beautiful&#8221; movement is just plain wrong.<\/li>\n<li>I really want to learn to become a highly skilled chef, and learn how to play the piano.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes &#8211; at 40.<\/li>\n<li>I hope my girlfriend understands how much I appreciate everything she does for me and my daughter.\u00c2\u00a0 Not from reading this &#8211; but from how I treat her.<\/li>\n<li>If Sydney ends up as happy\u00c2\u00a0an adult as I am right now, I will die a happy man.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.\u00c2\u00a0 Need to sleep now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok &#8211; so the flight to Sedona was awesome, the trip was awesome, the flight home was perhaps the best I have ever had, and the US got absolutely stomped in the Ryder Cup.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I need to get a few items off my chest: Raising a child is the hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever done, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-aviation","category-family","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}