Monday, March 21, 2005
Who is The Net Dog?
Let me start off by saying that I have no idea why I'm doing this ... but it seems like everybody is blogging these days and I'm nothing if not a sheep. Is sheep singular? Can you have one sheep? Oh well something to research I guess.
If you are reading this (and I hope you are), you're probably wondering why I'm The Net Dog. It's not as interesting as you might think ... or maybe you didn't think anything in which case the reason is more interesting than what you thought. Anyway, after high school I got a job at the Courier-Journal, which used to be a well-thought of newspaper in Louisville, KY but now is just another Gannett clone. For 10 years I worked in the news library as a research technician ... which is a fancy way of saying "librarian" (kinda like how garbage men are sanitation engineers). Basically it was my job to research anything and everything for the reporters and even the public (for a fee, of course).
I think I was pretty good at my job. I prided myself on being able to find anything so when AOL came along and I was looking for a cool screenname I came up with The Net Dog because I was like a bloodhound when it came to finding things on the net. See? I told you it wasn't very interesting. Most people thought it was something dirty ...
Anyway, I left the CJ after I finally graduated from college and took a job as a programmer at UPS. Well, let's just say that the rather rigid corporate environment at UPS was not my cup of tea so I took a job with a smaller shipping company. The more relaxed enviroment (blue jeans instead of suits and ties) suited me much better and I've been there for the past 5 years.
That is going to change very soon ...
To be continued ...
If you are reading this (and I hope you are), you're probably wondering why I'm The Net Dog. It's not as interesting as you might think ... or maybe you didn't think anything in which case the reason is more interesting than what you thought. Anyway, after high school I got a job at the Courier-Journal, which used to be a well-thought of newspaper in Louisville, KY but now is just another Gannett clone. For 10 years I worked in the news library as a research technician ... which is a fancy way of saying "librarian" (kinda like how garbage men are sanitation engineers). Basically it was my job to research anything and everything for the reporters and even the public (for a fee, of course).
I think I was pretty good at my job. I prided myself on being able to find anything so when AOL came along and I was looking for a cool screenname I came up with The Net Dog because I was like a bloodhound when it came to finding things on the net. See? I told you it wasn't very interesting. Most people thought it was something dirty ...
Anyway, I left the CJ after I finally graduated from college and took a job as a programmer at UPS. Well, let's just say that the rather rigid corporate environment at UPS was not my cup of tea so I took a job with a smaller shipping company. The more relaxed enviroment (blue jeans instead of suits and ties) suited me much better and I've been there for the past 5 years.
That is going to change very soon ...
To be continued ...
