Category Archives: Curiosities

Hovercraft Building

October 23, 2007 – 7:29 am

The inimitable Jason Young and I took this past Sunday to build a hardware store hovercraft out of wood, plastic sheeting, a leaf blower, and peanut butter. (Note: one of those things is a lie.) We then set my children (read: “lab rats”) floating down the street on it like passengers on a giant air [...]

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Friends | Comments (1)

Look At The Size Of That Thing!

October 10, 2007 – 7:15 am

My friend Joshua Kriegshauser, with whom I worked at Electronic Arts, has posted a magnificent video of his assembly of the 5,200-piece Millennium Falcon lego kit over the span of 11 days. Be sure to watch for the outfit changes!
Tremendous work, Josh!

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Friends | Comments (0)

Chaos and Form, Noise and Music: A Mini-Research Project

October 9, 2007 – 10:36 am

NOTE: This is an audience participation post. See the bottom for how you can help!
The other afternoon, I was listening to WNYC’s Radio Lab, a show from a New York public radio station. Radio Lab always has really interesting shows, where they take a topic and run with it wherever the curiosity of the inquisitive [...]

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Music | Comments (23)

Tattoos & Weblogs

September 19, 2007 – 8:36 am

In our continued branding extravaganza, I bought 5,000 temporary tattoos featuring our Gato Project logo, suitable for handing out in training classes, distributing at parties, etc. We used tattoofun.com, who did a superb job creating them. Here’s me proudly modeling one of them:

In other work news, we’re starting up a technical weblog where we’ll be [...]

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Work | Comments (0)

The Origin of the Species

August 31, 2007 – 8:48 am

A few folks have asked about my recent purchase of luchador masks at work. Fazia has posted an excellent explanation over at her blog. (There are more photos on Facebook for those who just can’t get enough of knowledge workers dressed as wrestlers. Ooh, and knowledgeworkersdressedaswrestlers.com is still available! I’ll make millions…)

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Work | Comments (0)

Nachoooooooooooooooooooooooo!

August 21, 2007 – 12:25 pm

Oh, heck yeah! The luchador masks just arrived. Here’s me modeling one and looking, if I may say so, muy caliente!

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Work | Comments (0)

Job Satisfaction

August 16, 2007 – 1:08 pm

Some people like doing the same thing at work every day. The routine is comfortable — one always knows what’s expected and what to expect, there’s very little uncertainty to have to sort through, and one can go home with a clear sense of a job well-done.
Me? I hate it. If I have to do [...]

By SeanMcTex | Comments (0)

I Am Walter Mitty…

August 12, 2007 – 9:29 pm

…and here’s what runs through my head all day.
Many thanks to the lovely and talented Jason Young for finally bringing my secret life to light.

By SeanMcTex | Comments (0)

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler…

August 1, 2007 – 9:30 am

My boss just put a Red Swingline Stapler on my desk.
If you don’t understand the significance of this, please go watch Office Space immediately.
If you still don’t understand the significance of this, then move along. There’s nothing for you here.

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Movies | Comments (3)

Attack of the Killer Porcupine

July 21, 2007 – 10:46 pm

The other night, we had an emergency at work: the main Content Management Server has spontaneously rebooted, corrupting the database that contains about 90 of the University’s websites. Jeff and I rushed in at about 9:00pm and worked diligently, with only occasional breaks to watch Futurama, until 4:00am. Nearly hallucinatory with fatigue, we then stumbled [...]

By SeanMcTex | Comments (0)