This is shaping up to be a weird morning

Someone in a blue labcoat just wheeled an electrostatic cart past my office door. On the cart was a mewing cardboard box. … 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 … Continue reading This is shaping up to be a weird morning

Players

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 … Continue reading Players

Apple Keyboard

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 … Continue reading Apple Keyboard

Pens

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, … Continue reading Pens

Synergy

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 … Continue reading Synergy

A LOSER IS YOU!

powerpc-linux-gcc -I../linux-2.6.19.1/arch/ppc/include -I../linux-2.6.19.1/include -D__KERNEL__ -m32 -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -O2 -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -mmultiple -mno-altivec -mstring -Wa,-maltivec -fomit-frame-pointer -g -fno-stack-protector -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -c -o cheese_main.o cheese_main.c In file included from ../linux-2.6.19.1/include/linux/sched.h:51, from ../linux-2.6.19.1/include/linux/module.h:9, from cheese_main.c:2: ../linux-2.6.19.1/include/linux/jiffies.h:18:5: warning: “CONFIG_HZ” is not defined ../linux-2.6.19.1/include/linux/jiffies.h:20:7: warning: “CONFIG_HZ” is not defined ../linux-2.6.19.1/include/linux/jiffies.h:22:7: warning: “CONFIG_HZ” is not defined … Continue reading A LOSER IS YOU!