Our department has an annual white elephant gift exchange. If you’ve never participated in one, they go something like this: Player A chooses a wrapped gift from a pile and unwraps it. Player B then can select another wrapped gift, or steal Player A’s. Player A then selects a new wrapped gift. Player C selects [...]
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Posted 31 January 2008
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The McDonalds cashier plopped an unsolicited application for employment onto my tray. Should I be worried? Shouting “Shake that honeymaker!” while Maggie’s wind-up bee danced was probably a joke lost on a 7 year old. At least, I hope so. The Happy Meal bag said “You can jump six times higher in space!” That must [...]
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Posted 06 November 2007
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Family
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The head of our department organized a Halloween Hamburger social for this afternoon. One of my friends, Kevin Huffaker — artist, mischief maker, and all around really nice guy — decided that this should be the year of the first annual Ron-A-Thon. The idea behind the Ron-A-Thon is to get as many people as possible [...]
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Posted 31 October 2007
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Work
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First off, a great big “Thank You!” to the 16 people who chipped in with data for the little experiment I proposed in Chaos and Form, Noise and Music: A Mini-Research Project! It was great fun to see all of your experiences and discussion rolling in, and to root for the data to go one [...]
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Posted 23 October 2007
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Music
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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 [...]
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Posted 23 October 2007
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Friends
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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!
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Posted 10 October 2007
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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 [...]
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Posted 09 October 2007
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Music
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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 [...]
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Posted 19 September 2007
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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…)
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Posted 31 August 2007
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Oh, heck yeah! The luchador masks just arrived. Here’s me modeling one and looking, if I may say so, muy caliente!
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Posted 21 August 2007
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