Category: From the Mind of Brian

  • Brian’s quote of the day

    From today’s marketing meeting … Bill: If I install a set of 300 watt Jensens in my cube, do you think that can be classified as white noise? Brian: Only if you play Barry Mantilow

  • Busy, busy, busy

    My poor website … I need to generate content. I have stories to write … old friends tracking me down, Starbucks comments, kittens with sexual identity issues, moving between computer geek and goat farmer, preparing to travel to Comdex. Right now, all I can do is praise Pixar for Monsters, Inc. (and the too-damn-funny short…

  • I did a bad thing …

    Andrew, one of my friends at work (and Linux hacker of great l33t skillz) keeps a Lord of the Rings Gandalf action figure at his desk. He is pretty sure it’s magical powers keep evil bugs away from his projects. Anyway, I replaced it this morning with a Harry Potter figure. He’s not happy …

  • Legos and Microchips

    Thursday, 10:26 AM, San Jose, CA. I have determined it is very hard to make the AMI corporate logo out of Lego blocks. It’s the last day of the Intel Developer Form (IDF) at the San Jose Convention Center. I packed up the booth about an hour ago, leaving three boxes and four pages of…

  • Return of the Rolling Luggage

    Tuesday … 9:30AM … San Jose Convention Center Yes, you can all relax now. I got my luggage back. My string of bad luggage luck got worked out yesterday. I had to hang out in the San Jose Airport Terminal A luggage claim for an hour, but I was rewarded with the return of my…

  • Black Rolling Bags

    August 26, 2001 … 9:06 PM … San Jose, CA An empty baggage carousel works its way in a counter-clockwise motion. On any other flight, on any other day, my two black rolling bags would be on that carousel. Today they are not.