With Anne feeling better, we decided to go hiking on Sunday. We drove over to Camelback Mountain, where we had been warned to arrive early to avoid the crowds and heat. They were right about the crowds. We spent 10 minutes looking for parking, ending up parking at the closest on-street spot 3/4 of a …
Waking up on day 1, we still had to decide what the heck we were going to do for the next 3 days. We guessed that one day would be spent driving around, another hiking and another walking around Scottsdale. With Anne still getting over a cold, driving seemed to be the best idea for …
Last week, people kept asking me what I was doing during the long Presidents’ Day weekend. I said that Anne and I were going to Phoenix. Their next question was “What’s there?”. My response was “I have no idea.” Confused looks were returned. When we saw the long weekend coming, we figured we should use …
I’ve worked with a lot of good engineers and Yahoo! and other places. Recently I was thinking that a lot of the traits that make them great are borderline dysfunctional. Perhaps all good engineers are savants? When hiring, here are the traits I look for. Good engineers are lazy. After all, premature optimization is the …
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My Package Alert service has been uhh… taking a breather… for some time now. I finally found the time to take a look at what was going wrong and in a few minutes everything was working correctly again. Just enter your package tracking number for UPS or FedEx and you’ll get an email anytime its …
Happy-Senseo Originally uploaded by staramaze. WNYC’s Amy Sedaris Craft Challenge encouraged people to upload pictures of food with googly eyes to a flickr group. Many of them are great fun. Check it out.
Every year at Yahoo, the founders (Jerry and David) buy a gift for all the employees. Jerry and David walk down the aisles and hand them out personally to many of the now 12,000 employees. Usually it’s some kind of clothing item, but this year David showed up at my desk with an envelope. Inside …
Back when I worked at LAUNCH, I had a boss named Alex. Alex was a very interesting guy. A bit crazy at times, but still a good guy. I eventually transferred up to the Sunnyvale campus of Yahoo so I no longer worked with Alex, but I kept in touch with a lot of people …
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lazy (laa-zee) ADJECTIVE. 1. Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness. 2. Slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy river. 3. Conducive to idleness or indolence: a lazy summer day. 4. Depicted as reclining or lying on its side. Used of a brand on livestock. Purely Hypothetical Example: Signing up for and installing Skype on your laptop …
Well, another season of the Amazing Race is done. It seemed to me that the winners this season were the most deserving of the 3 teams left this time around. What was most strange about this season is that they visited countries that were the original homes of several engineers I’ve hired. India (no surprise …
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