Apple is hosting a "special event" in 5 minutes. I'm in their cafeteria, one of the places where they're broadcasting it to the employees ( Read more... )

Emotions can be hard to compare from one time to another. It's really tough to answer the question of whether I'm happier now or before. Nostalgia is one factor that makes all that particularly tough. So today I made two objective observations that help me see how much better my current job is...

1. That bottle of Excedrin I keep in my cube sure has ( Read more... )

Ever have a problem with something, and suddenly you figure the solution out as you explain it to someone, just from the act of working through an explanation? I do this all the time... "Hey, could you take a look at this error? See, I know it's not due to this thing over here because it, uh, oh wait, nevermind, I see now. Well, uh, thanks for your ( Read more... )

It's been about a month since I started at Apple. ( I haven't done much. )

I can't believe how well that went. I got a car registration and a driver's license, in one visit, taking about an hour and a half, with about a grand total of 10 minutes in line. Sure, it helped a whole lot that I had all my stuff filled out beforehand and I had everything prepared... but having the appointment, the process was as smooth as flying ( Read more... )

Here's my solution to airplane security ( Read more... )

Wow, I've never seen anything like this before. It appears that there's some random fire burning about a half mile from the window in my office, as of about a half hour ago. For awhile it just looked like smoke, but I heard sirens about 15 minutes ago, and as of right now there's three UAVs and a helicopter checking it out ( Read more... )

Well, so I finally up and moved to Apple. It's good here so far. I'm in a ridiculously huge state of flux, with moving going on and all. I have no computer at home, and nothing really to do at home, so I'm spending most of my time in my cube, at least for now. I hope to post more in a few days, but it's getting late and there's stuff I need to take ( Read more... )

( frequent flyer programs are a scam )

You aren't even a teenager yet!
Your hearing rules! You're either quite young or you've looked after my ears.

The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 19.9kHzTake the mosquito ringtones hearing testThis was an interesting test. I think I've now got that constant ear-buzzing pegged at somewhere around 16.7 kHz. Maybe it'll ( Read more... )