Level 19
I am sharing an office with a friend and our large white boards would not fit on the available walls, so we improvised by making them vertical. The instant I saw them installed I knew what had to be done. Click the thumbnail for the full size image.
Update:
I made it onto the front page of EpicWin!! As of Sept 20 there were 642 thumbs up and 31 thumbs down for it (probably the people who are not thinking with portals).
Update2 (20101004):
915 up, 45 down.
So I have spent the past week in Portland, OR at the O’Reilly Media’s OSCON 2010 and learned some useful things for my job, but it has also generated a fair bit of dissatisfaction.
The fun talks were more on the geeky side, like how to build a device to monitor the environment. It would be fun tostick a box on my parent’s dock to monitor Cayuga Lake’s water temperature, or better yet to make a small radio telescope and record the data.
In-between the very geeky things was a lot of rather boring stuff, so boring that I wonder what my role is in the programming world. Sure I can build large web-database applications that meet the needs of international health care research. Sure I can add little widgets to display pretty charts. Is this what I want to do? It was often more fun reading the ModRef magazine I brought. It does not help that a lot of people in the programming community think an open bar is the most exciting part of a convention. I really do not want to smell the partially digested alcohol on your breath. It is not pleasant.
Remind me again why I normally sit in front of a computer in Maryland…
I got my one year employment mug today. It is a nice dark cobalt color with my name and start date on it. I hear at five years you get a cupcake. I think I got the better deal. Too bad there is plenty of free coffee and tea in the break rooms but no free hot chocolate.
It is not a good sign when one of the people supposedly on your development team asks a critical question like “so how do I install the code?” only 2 weeks before the demo.
I just did a quick calculation. Even though we moved further from my office, I am saving about 20 minutes per week in transit time from being on a better bus route. That amounts to 80 hours saved each year. I cannot complain!