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Neal Stephenson
Last October Neal Stephenson came to Google Kirkland to give a talk. 11 months later, I passed on one of his recommended books to a friend who loved it. That was the kick in the ass that I needed to edit & post my notes from that session...
Poor Neal was at the end of a long book tour, flattened and sick enough that he couldn't project his voice ( Read more... ) -
Glimpsing Google Guts
Wow, a real glimpse underneath the usual veil of secrecy, from our resident supra-genius Jeff Dean: http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50002454.html?tag=st.nl -
Why Superman Will Always Suck
http://www.bamkapow.com/bk-feature-why-superman-will-always-suck-1189-p.html
...This article puts into words far better than I could ever muster why I've never given a rat's ass for Clark Kent.
Even if you only know Superman (and Batman) from a couple of movies, your should really read it. ...
Really, what lessons do the Superman comics teach? ( Read more... ) -
Play the stock markets? No, I don't have a death- [Um, bankruptcy] -wish.
Maybe Pat Byrne is a nut, but he's saying some seriously disturbing things.
This further re-enforces my belief that I should keep my dumb ass out of the stock market. The only people who ought to be messing with my $$ in the stock market had better be professionals with dozens of specialists on staff, and a big ass bucket of $$ that I'm just ( Read more... ) -
RIP: E. Gary Gygax
Raise you glasses: to the man who helped all of us freaks and geeks temporarily escape to better places. -
Fuck. It finally happened.
Despite my misgivings I've really come to like having the sun/moon roof in the new car.
(open sunroof + heated seats + no heat on == perfect for the it's-never-really-winter climate of Seattle)
But, now I've finally gone and done what I've been dreading:
I forgot, and left the sunroof open last night,
and it rained.
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Legs == Jell-O
Calves == Hot wires
Snowboarding == Amazing
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Whistler: the Kiwi Invasion
So day 1 of the Google ski trip was kind of a non-event...
T. took my oncall shift (since he was unexpectedly stuck at home (pregnant+hormonal wife ;-o ))
but it was already too late to move my lesson up from tomorrow morning. So I spend the day mooching around Whistler (holy $$ playground, Batman!).
Lots of things blew up today, kinda glad I ( Read more... ) -
Today's network maintenance
...to fix bullet-ridden fiber cable
(Remind me never to visit can't say ;-)
./ddd