You know what's awesome? I'll tell you what's awesome. Living with a person with whom you are madly in love. Sarah moved in Saturday night. It is amazing how natural it feels to think of the apartment as our apartment. It just seems like things are as they should have been for months. She and I get to hang out together and have adventures ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I get to go to what should be a really cool training session. First cool thing about the training session is that it is in San Francisco which means that it will take 2 hours less of my day than riding the bus down to Mt. View and back ( Read more... )

Connecting To A Running Emacs Via SSH
If you are one of those readers of my blog who really likes hearing about how my life is going, but you don't really care about interesting technical problems, please pardon the rest of this post.
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Happy Monday Everyone. I am sure everyone will be happy to know that I am actually doing real work on a regular basis now at Google. I have already done a smattering of Quality Assurance (QA) releases for some of our advertising products. So far, the job is very operational in nature. What I mean by that is that I come in and sit down and start ( Read more... )

Hat tip: shedmun:

If you are not yet familiar with the 1992 lyrical masterpiece "Baby Got Back" by the vocal artist Sir-mix-a-lot, please do check out the Musical Video. If you are familiar with this song, please skip right on to this incredibly funny parody of that song.

shedmun sent me the later in an instant messenger window several days ago, and I still ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to niamhncsu! My this day bring you a perpetually happy baby, and a husband who is able to make the lack of the former bearable. Tons of west-coast love.

John Edwards For President!
I just walked out of a giant room filled with people interested in hearing John Edwards speak about what he thinks the next president of the United States should be doing. I really like what I heard. Edwards repeated over and over again that one of the main things he wants is an open and transparent executive branch. ( Read more... )

Being a New Hire at Google
Okay, for anyone who hasn't already been debriefed on this, "Noogler" is the term for a New Hire at Google. I am pretty sure this stems from the trend on internet message boards to call the uninitiated people, noobs (newbies ( Read more... )

Okay, and now for the final installment in this three night marathon of getting everyone up to date with what is going on out in the Valley of the Dells. (Just made that up, although a quick Google search shows me that I am not the first to do that.)

Omissions from "Still Here"
Sarah and I really had a great time driving across the country. I was ( Read more... )

So, I am thinking that I am still going to leave you wanting more. I am pretty darn tired, so, this post is basically going to just be an outline of tomorrow's post. Sorry, but here is what you have to look forward to/wait on.

1. Omissions from "Still Here" In this section, I will talk about some of the things that Sarah thought deserved ( Read more... )