Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
So I'm just going to come out and say it: My favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is "Conundrum." It's episode fourteen of season five, and I just deeply love it.
I don't know if it's because I literally just assumed Erich Anderson's Commander McDuff was a random Enterprise officer of the week (which we saw quite often during the show) when I watched it as a kid during the original run, so the twist actually worked on eleven year old me. I don't know if it's because I just like a good "everyone has amnesia" story. I don't even know if it's just because it's a good Ro Laren episode. I don't know if it's just because we learn that Starfleet doesn't give a crap about lasers.
I just like it. It's neat.
And I rewatched it last night, and feel that it holds up -- which is why I found it deeply weird that the folks who wrote the episode actually think it's not that good. My favorite episode of the entire seven season run of the show was a failure according to the folks who wrote it.
And maybe, as a writer and creator, I should remember that.
Like the hardest part of releasing creative works to the public is that often, after a while, I'll start to judge those things far more harshly than when I first made them. Or I'll compare it to the potential I thought an idea had in my head. And if I don't reach that potential, I'll think of it as "bad" -- when it might just be slightly different than that idea. I have one hundred percent published stories that I thought were just sort of okay and later had someone tell me how much it meant to them to read it.
*cough*I Hate November*cough*
So I should make sure I remember Conundrum. That one of my favorite things to rewatch is considered one of those failures by its creators. That the things I make might have value, just not in the way I originally thought they should.
It's just sort of how things work out.
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…yea okay i quit, good luck with your S888ty trainwrek of a website
Wow…that is so freakin’ familiar!
Client gives developer/programmer the passwords to fix their problems with their software and then doesn’t give the help the authority to use them. In one word: Sheesh!
I agree…if you didn’t want to give the permission to use the passwords in order to fix the problem, then DON’T GIVE THEM OUT!!!!!!
If a client gets pissy about this, dump ’em and let them go hang
If you don’t want someone looking at the database, don’t give them the password to do so. The hoops to jump though of approval to get said passwords i can sorta understand, but only sorta.
I feel like that dude must have a day job in the public sector. Possibly on a municipal level.
“We want you to do this job.” ‘Okay, so I’ll start by….’ “Oh no no no… First, write all that down and email it to four different people who will each respond with ‘Reply all’, but never actually read the other messages in the train. Then when twelve more people have weighed in, we’ll start to think about forming a committee to begin the process of considering your proposal.”