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re: Shrimp Fettuccine

Posted by Brisketeer on 5/18/26 at 11:08 am to
I used to do a quick version of this with the River Road BBQ Shrimp seasoning. I would follow the directions for BBQ shrimp using butter, worcestershire sauce, etc. Then I would pour that into a pot with a jar of alfredo sauce, let that cook in, and then ladle over fettucine.
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- What is your role and what industry are you in?

Director of Business Intelligence and Software Development in the quick-serve-ish restaurant space

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- Did your company already have any type of automation in place before the AI push, and if so...what were you using?

We had the typical automations with data pipelines, webhooks, Azure Functions, etc.

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- Who is spearheading the AI transformation at your company? Is it leadership, IT, or someone else?

Our CEO for sure and it is a company-wide endeavor

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- Are you feeling pressure to move faster than is realistic or is your team handling the pace well?

Definitely feeling the pressure. The constant barrage of outside forces who are saying they're shipping 90 days of code in 2 days is not helping. The flipside of that is that QA is just an afterthought and those voices are not being heard.

Codex is in the lead…this week. It changes quickly.
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“Proud to be an American” by Lee Greenwood


I went to boot camp shortly after the first gulf war. They played this song toward the end of boot camp after we did something grueling (as grueling as Navy boot camp gets at least) and every man in our company cried like a baby. It was amazing, it brought us all together, and there was a very diverse cross section of our country there.

I also got to see Lee Greenwood sing the song on the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk during a televised concert on TBS.
Going to California by Led Zeppelin is my favorite song of all time. I don’t really have a most hated.
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Microshaft Winblows.


I've managed a long career fully based on Microsoft technologies. I've had a few hiccups here and there, but nothing remotely that made me want to say this. What happened to make you get here?
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Oklahoma is coming hard after people that live in Houston


DFW too.
Google released Gemma 4 open models recently.
I think expensive SAAS platforms will be hit pretty hard. A lot of companies pay huge subscription costs for a CRM like Salesforce and they only need a small percentage of the feature base.

re: Props to good new bands

Posted by Brisketeer on 4/13/26 at 8:38 pm to
Thanks! I brought my daughter and we had a great time in Stillwater.

re: Props to good new bands

Posted by Brisketeer on 4/13/26 at 4:21 pm to
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Cross Canadian Ragweed


Saw them in Stillwater on Saturday for the first time in 20 years. They were good although they had sound issues.

The biggest takeaway for me is you never want to follow Turnpike. They are so damn good.
It was really great. The new one is called Company Retreat. It's good, but not quite as good as the original.
You think a Chaplain and a General from a training command are in charge of sending in the ground forces?
There are over 4,500 people aboard Ford. There is no way a cover story would work. Seriously, you have to know that or are you just trolling with all of this?
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For me to know if I should be mad, I need to know how many non h1b they hired since this is only one.


It should be zero.
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That's the risk they take.... but the glory is worth the shot.


I would be loving it if I was an LSU fan. No shade from me.
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Could this be used hitting into a net?


Yes, it needs 8-10 feet of ball flight.

re: Flea's new album-Honora

Posted by Brisketeer on 3/27/26 at 3:15 pm to
There's a documentary on Netflix about RHCP and I learned quite a bit about Flea. It was really good. I'll have to check this album out.
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Yes, Tableau & Power BI; however, due to licensing costs, they don't allow citizen development


Sorry to hear that. This has been my background for many years, and I have always promoted access to anyone who needs it. PowerBI Pro is just $12/mo (included with E5 license) and with semantic models, everything is calculated correctly, no matter the dimensionality or timespan.
Does your company not have a standard BI tool?