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The Neo-Victorian Cubicle

Thumbnail image for The Neo-Victorian Cubicle February 28, 2010

If you’re going to do some­thing, do it big.  Make it spec­tac­u­lar.  Whether it’s a fan­tas­tic suc­cess, an amaz­ing effort, or an astound­ing fail­ure, make it some­thing peo­ple will talk about for a long time.
A cou­ple of weeks ago the office in which I work did a bit of a reshuf­fle.  We ran out of cubicle […]

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Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!

October 16, 2009

The other night, @verso tweeted a ques­tion about run­ning a lit­tle wiki on a home file server.  I responded with Tid­dly­Wiki, which is a whole wiki con­tained in a sin­gle HTML file.  It actu­ally may or may not ful­fill her needs, since there are huge con­cur­rency and remote access issues — it’s designed to be […]

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WHACK it!

September 24, 2009

You may or may not have seen my tweet/twitpic about learn­ing to whack a cou­ple of days ago.  It was from a flier that Human Resources (pre­sum­ably) left sit­ting on the color printer.  This morn­ing, while wait­ing for our stand-up meet­ing, some­one thought to track down the source.  A quick Google search later, we had […]

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900,000 Chutes & Ladders per hour

September 13, 2009

Every Thurs­day at work, dur­ing our lunch hour, sev­eral of us get together to play board games.  We play a dif­fer­ent game each week, and aside from a few tries at new games, we tend to rotate through the same three or four games each week.  In an attempt to add a lit­tle vari­ety, we […]

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Brian’s Ten(ish) Songs

August 26, 2009

At work we’ve been orga­niz­ing lit­tle unof­fi­cial fun activ­i­ties.  (And by “we,” I mean a coworker, Helen.) This includes things like Fri­day lunches out with the whole depart­ment (some of us eat out more fre­quently than that, but even the brown-baggers are now going out with us on Fri­days).  There is a weekly lunchroom […]

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The Office Wiki Stored in my iPhone

March 4, 2009

Yester­day, I was look­ing for a way to carry around a local copy of a wiki on my iPhone.  It seems that there are sev­eral apps that let you carry around an offline copy of Wikipedia — in case you are stuck on an air­plane or out of cell­phone range and need to look something […]

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Ketchup Post

November 6, 2008

As I unloaded a bunch of pho­tos to Flickr yes­ter­day, I real­ized I haven’t posted here in a while.  It’s about time for a catch-up post.
Elec­tion! Yeay!  What more can I say that oth­ers haven’t already said much more elo­quently than I could come up with.  The orig­i­nal plan was to go to the Doug […]

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There is no spoon

October 22, 2008

At work today our source code repos­i­tory dis­ap­peared.  This is a bad thing.  You know how, at 7-Eleven, they have that big safe bolted to the floor behind the counter?  It has the slot in the top to make night drops if the cash reg­is­ter ever gets a lot of money in it so that […]

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LCD demo video

July 8, 2008

Most peo­ple come to the real­iza­tion that this is some kind of hid­den infra­struc­ture at their work that some­one else maintains—it lets them save their Pow­er­Point slides to the net­work share. 

firmware — “It’s like soft­ware, but in things you don’t typ­i­cally think of as computers—things you don’t usu­ally want to crash: cell­phones, tele­vi­sions, cars, and the like.

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More Ketchup

April 22, 2008

This is another catch-up post to cover all sorts of top­ics from the past week.
Dream
Last night, I had an odd dream in which I some­how lost a cadaver.  I have no idea why I had one.  I might have been a mor­ti­cian or trans­port­ing it or merely keep­ing an eye on it for some­one.  (Wait — […]

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How to completely derail the Engineering department in 2 easy steps

April 18, 2008

How to derail the Engi­neer­ing depart­ment in 2 easy steps:
Step 1: Have one of your cowork­ers announce pub­licly that he stealth­fully gave his 2 weeks notice two weeks ago and has been keep­ing it on the down-low.  He’s mov­ing on to big­ger and bet­ter things (going back to school) and he’ll really be missed by all.  […]

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Sense.

April 16, 2008

The vend­ing machine at work con­fuses me.  Water is twice the price of soda.  Sure, the Cokes are 12oz and water is 20oz, but it’s water!  I can get fil­tered water for free from the refrigerator.

In other news, I went to a site with a cute lit­tle CAPTCHA today.  Sure, it’s not quite Kit­te­nAuth, but […]

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