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Work

Signs of Change

March 28, 2008

Last week, new signs were put up in the restrooms at work.  I am not entirely cer­tain why grown adults need to be told to wash their hands in a method befit­ting 3rd graders, but I did not ques­tion it.  I wash my hands any­way and just ignored the signs.
Today, some­body put new signs up over […]

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Ceiling Cat is watching you stand around the coffeemaker

March 20, 2008

While chat­ting with some cowork­ers around the cof­fee sta­tion at work, I looked up and was sur­prised by a ceiling cat.

(sorry about the blurry)
It would appear that a pat­tern is avail­able here: http://tubbypaws.blogspot.com/2008/03/meow-you-can-has-lolcats.html

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Work

February 27, 2008

I am very for­tu­nate in that I work in a place that, while a large amount of it is writ­ing code, there is still sci­ence to be done.  I can put up with the occa­sional meet­ing full of peo­ple vying for what color to make icons because I peri­od­i­cally get to put on a lab […]

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This is shaping up to be a weird morning

December 19, 2007

Some­one in a blue lab­coat just wheeled an elec­tro­sta­tic cart past my office door.  On the cart was a mew­ing card­board box.
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The hard­ware design lab now appears to be part ken­nel.  A cat is in there hid­ing behind a cur­tain of CAT-5 cables.  I think this is the day in which we hope to not have […]

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Players

December 16, 2007

Our com­pany Christ­mas party was at Play­ers whose motto (and web address) is “Eat, Drink, Bowl, Play.”  Play­ers itself is a fairly new addi­tion to Lake Oswego and while it really tries to look like it’s a chain sim­i­lar to Dave and Buster’s (“a Chuck E. Cheese for adults,” as I was told), it seems […]

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Lunch

October 31, 2007
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RIP Triops

October 15, 2007

Like all good toys aimed at kids ages 8 and up, my Tri­ops kit resulted in a death over the week­end.  Our dear Mis­ter Triop is now in the great big sushi plat­ter in the sky.  He passed away some time dur­ing the week­end, which was not a big sur­prise, as he had been acting […]

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Apple Keyboard

August 31, 2007

After play­ing with the new Apple key­board for 5–10 min­utes at the Apple Store the other week (the sales folks were curi­ous as to why I was writ­ing what looked like code into a TextE­dit win­dow), I decided to get one.  The key spac­ing isn’t a big deal at all–they just squared the beveled edges […]

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Triops Update

August 30, 2007

It’s another Tri­ops pic­turepalooza (with video!) It shed a pretty large piece of shell last night.

“Hi, I’m a Tri­ops.  My likes are: swim­ming on my back, carrots.”

Tri­ops Back­stroke — 30 sec­ond video — 1.8MB

Tri­ops With Car­rot — 30 sec­ond video — 1.8MB

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Pens

May 30, 2007

I am now offi­cially over the Space Pen.  See A Let­ter To My Pen for my list of gripes and com­plaints.  The new pen, a Cross Ion, is great.  It is a bit more chunky than I’d like, but it writes well and has a good visual indi­ca­tion of how much ink is left.  Plus, […]

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Coffee Machine

April 28, 2007

This is the cur­rent scene on top of the cof­fee machine at work.

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Synergy

April 26, 2007

Eight years ago, I worked at a com­pany where I had both a Linux desk­top machine and a Linux lap­top.  The lap­top was the pri­mary machine — for cod­ing, doc­u­men­ta­tion, and car­ry­ing around to meet­ings (back when WiFi was cutting-edge tech­nol­ogy that few peo­ple knew about.)  The desk­top was the work­horse for large builds and […]

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