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ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
March 14 2016 16:13 GMT
#1
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A little more than three years ago, I did look up the actual amount of time but I don't want to put the lyrics to a certain song from Rent in your ear, I sat down and stole the first of many moments of time from my then employer to write about the balance between life, Starcraft, and that same shitty job I had. Lo and behold, now closer to thirty than to twenty I'm still here and having flipped through many of my blogs since that first one it has been a roller coaster ride through my mid twenties that I am glad I documented in some way shape or form.

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Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes...


I did some checking and with this blog, from what I can tell, I'll be the 11th user to have made it to 100 blogs on Team Liquid; in an odd, humble braggy kind of way I'm pretty proud to be apart of that eleven. Though a fair few of my blogs have come from a misanthropic, cynical or dark place in a, "you only can pick two," kind of way I have absolutely loved having a venue to spitball about what has been on my mind at any given moment; from video games, to that one blog I did on politics and never went back to, to my oh so popular Star Trek blogs which are far and away the most viewed stuff I've written on TL.

Let's do some breaking down though, because I have these neat metrics on blog viewership that are kind of cool.


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Slow going those first few months, but that first Blog was about six months after I started posting in earnest on TL


Sub 1k posts, and views are about where you'd expect them to be, spending some amount of my time wondering how Shellshock has enough time to post as much as he does until I finally put student+LR threads together gets you to however many million posts he is up to these days.

The upshot when you work the early shift, and there are GSLs to be watched, you get to know the fine folks in the Starcraft LR threads. Still sorry about Prime Lorning.

The funny thing is that these also correlate very closely to my employment history.

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Big Spikes for the DS9 is better than TNG Star Trek Blog, as well as some personal drama/training at work. Stay Tuned because next on General ThomasJServo: Julio will reveal that he is really Julio's evil twin Two-lio and there is a bomb at Virginia's wedding across town.


The funny thing about this view, as related to my job, is that the spikes you see are times when I am in training at a new job and have time to fuck around on TL as I will. Early Summer 2014 I had just started at my current position and late 2016 I had just changed departments and as such am/was still being trained on the baser processes for daily workflow.

I should really think about leveraging these as examples of how hard I am actually working on what they pay me to do. My boss would surely appreciate that I've had to drop a lot of TL activity or limit it to discussing Heroes of the Storm for actual work... mostly.



Long story short TL, I wanted to take some time out of my morning that I can't work due to system issues and thank you for reading these things and for being my favorite online sounding board. Maybe in another 3 years I'll hit that sweet, sweet 200 mark.


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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17640 Posts
March 14 2016 16:40 GMT
#2
i'm just glad u keep getting better jobs.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
March 14 2016 16:54 GMT
#3
On March 15 2016 01:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i'm just glad u keep getting better jobs.

Preach man, I'm just happy to not have to answer phones, onward and upward at a slow though reasonable incline.
Ragnarork
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
France9034 Posts
March 14 2016 16:55 GMT
#4
Maybe in another 3 years I'll hit that sweet, sweet 200 mark.


Go for it!

Kind of funny that a seemingly completely unrelated graph actually shows something about your real life

I tend to "steal" a bit of time from my employer as well, but I got an excuse, my code is compiling. :>
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ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
March 14 2016 17:15 GMT
#5
On March 15 2016 01:55 Ragnarork wrote:
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Maybe in another 3 years I'll hit that sweet, sweet 200 mark.


Go for it!

Kind of funny that a seemingly completely unrelated graph actually shows something about your real life

I tend to "steal" a bit of time from my employer as well, but I got an excuse, my code is compiling. :>

I'll call these microbreaks, a little mental repas to purge some of the requests we get from other departments from my head. I'd say it helps overall productivity.
Ragnarork
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
France9034 Posts
March 14 2016 17:27 GMT
#6
Yup, I'm basically not taking real breaks during the day, so spending 10-20 minutes on TL.net here and there helps.
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farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18864 Posts
March 14 2016 18:28 GMT
#7
Nice blogs, bruh. Some day, when I'm passing through Minneapolis, maybe I'll buy you a beer
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
March 14 2016 18:32 GMT
#8
On March 15 2016 03:28 farvacola wrote:
Nice blogs, bruh. Some day, when I'm passing through Minneapolis, maybe I'll buy you a beer

Drop me a PM and we'll make sure you get a good Jucy Lucy as well.
Aeromi
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
France14461 Posts
March 14 2016 19:24 GMT
#9
I love your blogs, keep posting!
https://twitter.com/DrAeromi | Updates on live tournaments: @StarCrafteSport
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
March 14 2016 21:41 GMT
#10
On March 15 2016 04:24 Aeromi wrote:
I love your blogs, keep posting!

imgbaby
Profile Blog Joined May 2015
158 Posts
March 15 2016 01:47 GMT
#11
heh cool song at the beginning. It relates to kind of how you've been slowly growing your blog readers lol
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in some midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free
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