While having discussions about how my work life may have changed now that the company I worked for was acquired by a very large company, I learned a new word from some people with more time in the very large company environment: bureaumancer. Bureaumancer n. One with a mastery of the arcane skills required to manipulate the bureaucracy (as of… Read more →
Day: October 28, 2005
Home Again
Safe back in Halifax. Wife and baby already in bed when I got home–might as well catch up on Rome. Normally I would read at this point, but since I already went through two books at the airport–Westerfeld‘s Pretties and the Gischler debut Gun Monkeys)–I think I’m justified in spending an hour or two catching up with Vorenus and Pullo.… Read more →