Category: Work
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Return Ticket
San Jose International Airport … 8:56am Sitting in a coffee shop, checking my e-mail. When in the valley, do as the valley people do.
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Snowball’s Chance In California
So I left for sunny San Jose yesterday. When I landed at 4:30pm it was raining. When I got up this morning, snow had fallen in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today’s high is forecasted for 51F. By the way, it’s going to be 71F back in Atlanta today. That�s just a little weird.
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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
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Too many people with bags
I’m at COMDEX with a few thousand of my closest friends. Suzanne is flying back today after out min-vacation this weekend (great day to fly, ain’t it). Anyway, I’m working my way through a maze of people and their bags … paper bags filled with more paper. T-shirts aren’t as freely distributed as they have…
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Countdown to Comdex
Friday is my last day in the office for a while. I fly to Las Vegas tomorrow in preparation for Comdex 2001. It won’t be the glorious Comdex of old … the show isn’t as important anymore, and the weak economy will have a small impact. I’ll just have to manage the tradeshow without toting…
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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 …