IT in the D presents 2016: A Year in Review
“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat!” –…
Monthly Archives
December 2019
Sometimes The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease
You know how you hear/see those commercials for whatever wonder pill of the week some pharmaceutical company wants…
How Not To Suck At Starting a Networking Group
An interesting thing has been happening lately.
People have asked us how we do what we do.
People in…
2015 Penguicon Review, Part 2: The Geek Goes Home
As Bob noted in his point of view in Part One of our recap, he and I spent this past weekend at something called…
Episode 328 – Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Reviews and Commentary
Most of the gang returns from last week's predictions episode to see how our thoughts ahead of time matched up with…
The Silver Lining
"Every cloud has a silver lining" - various
Chalk this one up to "another time when Dave forgot to practice what…
Thoughts On Our Pink Slip Party Events
...so, we're thinking about tweaking our Pink Slip Party events a bit, and we'd like to get some input from you…
Don’t Be That Guy – The Angry System Administrator
Yet again, I can almost hear you screaming through the very cabling that makes up the internet:…
Don’t Be That Guy: The Free Beer Isn’t Cold Enough
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.…
Don’t Be That Guy – The Booty Call Networker
"If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there." - Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.…
The Dating Corollary: The Awkward Proposal Moment
As mentioned in the introduction (and you read the introduction, right? No? Go read it over here), in the first…
Don’t Be That Guy: The Unprepared Graduate
I'll spare you my horrific karaoke rendition of "the children are our future".
You're welcome.
One of the…
Career Lessons You Missed From Caddyshack
Ty Webb: Remember Danny - Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.
Anyone who knows me knows…
Don’t Be That Guy: ‘Do They know It’s Christmas’ is the Worst Song Ever
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.…
Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Predictions, The Return of Bob, Ann Arbor Meetup…
Star Wars Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, hits theaters on Thursday, and so it's time for our traditional…
The Dating Corollary: “It’s Not You, It’s Me” (hint:…
As mentioned in the introduction (and you read the introduction, right? No? Go read it over here), in the first…
The Lazy Job Seeker
By and large, I really enjoy our ITintheD.com events. I do. I take no small measure of pride in what we've managed…
Death By Assumption: Sabotaging Your Job Search in 5 Easy Steps
"If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there." - Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.…
Don’t Like Change Coming to Detroit? Get Involved.
"The city needs the suburbs…and, like it or not…the suburbs need the city." - Me, almost four years ago
Preface:…
Episode 326 – Bob is Out, Augie is In, Tales from the Barside Bartenders…
Bob's down and out following some chaos after his knee surgery, so we asked our buddy Augie of Whiskey in the Jar…