http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/28/free.ride.ap/http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2571332http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-01-28-free-space-ride_x.htm Nothing I can say. Oracle gave him $30K in cash to pay the taxes. Which would have been enough for most people.
When I bought my new Vespa, I made sure to buy crashbars–steel bars that run along the cowls and legshields, and are supposed to protect the paint job from roadrash in minor drops. Today, I discovered that they worked! I had to drive to work today, and pulling into the…
I never seem to notice when the light is right for portraits. But it was right at one point this past weekend when Ellie was sitting on the couch in Chanel & Trish’s living room in Portland. I just love how pensive she is. It captures her quiet, gentle nature,…
Finn had his seventh birthday today. He wanted to stay six, however.
A StreetDowntown That was my favorite street sign in the Bay Area. But I think the one below, which I snapped this weekend on the way back from Mount Hood with the girls and their two little ones takes the cake.
…is always 30 minutes late, give or take. Why don’t they just change the schedule to reflect that it takes 4 hours? Then they’d be early sometimes.
The inspection on Wednesday was fascinating: Faren West, the inspector, was incredibly thorough, right down to finding the rats in the attic. The tally: One broken window pane A tiny leak in the drain from the tub Broken window springs Broken seals on a couple of the double-paned windows A…
I woke up to snow this morning. It was beautiful. I sat in Bauhaus from 7am on, working, watching the snow fall around the Space Needle and the Olympic Mountains across Puget Sound. OK, I couldn’t see the Olympics, but I knew they were there. With snow, I had an…
Today was my first meeting with the product team where that one individual didn’t make any disparaging remarks. OK, not true. It’s just that the disparaging remarks were directed at someone not in the room with us, instead of me. Which is a distinct improvement. We’ll see if this keeps…
Five+ months at Microsoft. I haven’t worked this hard since I came within a day of billing 300 hours one month at MoFo. I learned that month that more hours just led to more pain in my wrists. There’s no end in sight here. My wrists hold up better, because…
