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Rarely does my company do anything that the mainstream media would deem exciting enough to report on — and I can’t really blame them. Most of our work is either pretty nitty-gritty technical with a near-zero flashiness factor, or it’s so fringe that most people glaze over as it’s described. However, every now [...]

A quick two-day work jaunt out to Camp Pendleton, exactly one year and one month after my last trip. Stayed in Carlsbad once again — although this time in a hotel right on the beach. Definitely an improvement.

Work was a one-day affair, with one meeting scheduled for the morning and an afternoon set [...]

In lieu of being creative, I offer you a random IM snippet:

me@work: man… it smells SOOOOOOOO rancid in here
me@work: jokers cooking fish in the microwave
Preble: Fish… FISH. Who does that? Really…
me@work: People that wanna get CUT, thats who
Preble: I mean, seriously… what kind of person brings that in? Tell me about [...]

A recent comment on Preble’s blog has inspired me to share a simple and entertaining word game that a fellow nerd here at work shared with me, and that the whole cadre of nerds here occasionally will bring up during conversation: preposition switching, usually in person-to-person action phrases. This lends itself to some really [...]

Pics are up from the work dinner outing to David Tran’s family’s restaurant, Phoenix Noodle Cafe.