I’m coming down from yesterday’s math-dorphin high, having found the optimal point for the set of variables. How did I do? Be there to conduct my business. Uh-huh. Minimize the cost to the company – This was trickier than I had hoped. The airfares for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday departures were $880, $911, $1,400 […]
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Since there were a couple of requests, and some disbelief (*cough*, Jennifer) here is the scarf-in-progress, also known as “Scarf ]I[” or “When I finish this, there will be warm weather” scarf. My hand is strategically placed over some design elements: knitting my name into the pattern. If my name was a series of random
This morning I sauntered down to the coffee shop downstairs. Because the hotel’s deconstruction was concentrated right in front of the cafe, the shop’s front entrance was cordoned off by opaque plastic and yellow barrier tape. There were detour signs channeling consumers through the gift shop (whose “No food or drinks” sign connoted irony). There
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In Seattle’s airport, the international sign for Espresso ranks right up there in importance with Baggage Claim, Ground Transportation, Currency Exchange and Restrooms. The conference’s official event hotel, the former Reno Hilton, is now named the “Grand Sierra.” In the execution of their plan to turn parts of building into condominiums, they have managed to
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I was at work until 9:30 this evening building demos for the trade show next week. This is the latest I’ve biked home since the summer, and it wasn’t too bad: very light traffic, wet roads, 34°F and clear sky illuminated by a sliver-short-of-full moon. Near home, it got interesting. The temperature had dipped below
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Some photos from last week’s pasting. On the way to work Wednesday, my car’s windshield cracked from the severe temperature difference. I also discovered the CD player won’t spin the disc when the interior of the car is below freezing. By Saturday, most of it had melted off from the slightly warmer rain.
Mr. Frog is upset withthe party-crashers Today was a private function for patrons of the Bellevue Botanical Garden. The first clue was the abundant parking and lack of throngs of people queuing up for the hot caffeine injection. The second clue was the lights being shut down… at 7p.m. On the way out, I saw
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Andre the Giant sticker. I love Flickr, except that my general pool of photos has always been oddly ordered. After some experimentation, I’ve figured it out what’s going on. On the actual camera, they’re numbered chronologically, using a different prefix, e.g. IMG_7021.jpg. When I plug in the camera, the Windows plug-and-play photo transfer widget prompts
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