For the last year, aside from starting a great job with Bing, I’ve also been working on a book about C# 4.0 and the upcoming .Net framework. The news: it is finally available for presale! This book is not your typical C# reference. It’s designed to be an easy guide to how to accomplish [...]
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We went down to one of the many local lakes and I snapped a couple of shots of the lake during sunshot. It’s a small, beautiful lake with a tiny public beach, a dock inhabited by fishermen and a small swimming area. No motorized boats are allowed.
I’m sure there are hundreds of places within [...]
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Over the last year, I’ve (very slowly) been working on a LEGO model of a NASA Space Shuttle. It’s finally finished, or as much as it will be. I need to move onto other things now.
It’s about 38” long. I have no idea how many pieces—many thousands because every surface is tiled over. The [...]
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On Saturday, my wife ran in the Rock and Roll Marathon in downtown Seattle. I roamed around and took pictures of Qwest and Safeco fields and snapped a few of the race itself. Bib numbers I captured (where I could read them) are: 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 1275, 1347, 1350, 1356, [...]
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Do you ever get the feeling that when things are going too well, something has to give?
I think sometimes the universe decides it needs to humble you, remind you just how thin the thread is from which we all hang. Months of comparative ease and happiness demand a balance.
Yesterday, we were rebalanced. Now, I realize [...]
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Note to future self: Don’t get haircut the week before important events take place.
After my last day of work at GeoEye, I went to get my haircut at a nearby salon. I asked for it a little shorter. Between the time I gave this brief instruction, and the time she lifted her hands to [...]
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Given that I’m now working for its major competitor, I’ve decided to take down the Google ads from this site. I hope this leads to less clutter and intrusiveness. My goal for this site has been (and still is) for it to be self-sustaining, and I hope it can continue to be through Amazon referrals.
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be able to read minds (anyone’s around you. Selectively. You aren’t forced.)
- OR –
be the smartest person in the world (in any field, you’re a genius)
…a question my wife and I pondered as we cleaned the house the other day…
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Wear my Google t-shirt.
Set my homepage to www.google.com
Continually ask, “Have you met BillG? Where’s BillG? When can I see BillG?”
Show off my bright blue iPod Nano
“Upgrade” my workstation to Windows XP
Then just format it and install Ubuntu
Randomly shout “Yahoo!” as I walk through [...]
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Some people (I’m looking at you reddit), have complained about the length of my interview story. So sorry. I wanted to document the entire experience, for myself as well as others, so I included a lot of detail. I know a lot of people enjoy it. There are plenty of shorter experiences out there, so [...]
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