Communicae Archive

• NL

  Just now, via work IM… reyonthehill: Holliday was traded. reyonthehill: St. Louis for three players reyonthehill: National Leaguers co-worker: saw that this AM. It was in the works since opening day, as far as i’m concerned reyonthehill: I didn’t realize the NL was still in business. co-worker: yes, still in business co-worker: apparently, letting pitchers [...]

• If the IRS was on Twitter

  In a wide-ranging, long-winded, semi-work-related IM conversation with a coworker this afternoon, I floated the idea of the IRS on Twitter… @IRS you suck balls @IRS where’s my money? @IRS you just got fooled. thanks for the refund. #fail Be sure to follow the White House and Social Security, you know, if you have the [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  chkdsk /f # Q: Why weren’t the police called when Janice blew away Richie Aprile? In retrospect, it seems to be a rather convenient lack of citizenship. #

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  On the first floor to avoid the heat. # Sharks hockey. (I’m giving it a shot.) # To celebrate Earth Day, volunteers handed a green piece of paper to passengers on BART this morning. #irony # I spent two hours last night cleaning up XP in preparation for a partition. # Tom is the Skype [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  I’m trying to explain to my wife the difference between .htaccess/.htpasswd and WordPress log-in. # YouTube will be known as the biggest mistake Google made. # The dog is sleeping; Bill Moyers on TiVo. # I’m amidst a showdown over blog attribution. #

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  A pretty damn good Monday. # Sabres vs. Red Wings on TiVo. # House on TiVo. Thank you for spoiling, internet. # @tmrly Ahem, steroids. in reply to tmrly # @mrsjwns I know what you mean. I have thought about it too. Haiku is my friend. in reply to mrsjwns # Q: When is it [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  I got beat-up on Twitter. # Life Lesson No. 17: Do not tell a political reporter that you are considering a run for Congress unless you mean it. # @ryanalward I find support from both the far left and far right. in reply to ryanalward # @ryanalward Australia, dude. in reply to ryanalward # @ryanalward [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  Day four: 5 out of 8; not the best day, but I’m still standing. # 60 Minutes on TiVo. # @ryanalward Is there an iPod dock? in reply to ryanalward # I am leaning against MacHeist for ethical reasons; it is tempting. # @mrsjwns Ahh, clearing escrow. Congratulations. in reply to mrsjwns # I just [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  Maybe the issue is contractually-mandated bonuses. # @ryanalward The idea that AIG is contractually-mandated to hand out bonuses to individuals that performed poorly with taxpayer money. in reply to ryanalward # Q: How fast could you put a proposal together to build a privately-funded baseball stadium in downtown Oakland? # If you know anything about [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted…

  If you know anything about the discovery of salt, oranges or almonds, please email me. # VMware Fusion, Parallels, Wine… anyone? #

• .xlsx

  Thanks to the wonderful engineering minds at Microsoft (who pleasantly thought that changing their omnipresent file extensions were (1) a good thing, and (2) in desperate need of an additional ‘x’), I get to have these types of work-related IMs… reyonthehill: are you using xls or xlsx co-worker: xlsx reyonthehill: me too co-worker: cool reyonthehill: [...]

• Lectures

  Work IMs make the day… Co-worker: hows it going? reyonthehill: it’s good to see you are still alive Co-worker: yeah they decided to hole me up out in the field office again for a while Co-worker: I was kinda pissed when I wasn’t able to make those last two seminars reyonthehill: yea, it pissed off [...]

• Other People’s Grandparents

  A Facebook chat with a very old childhood friend (best friend from age four through seven)… I remember the cottage we visited at Cuba Lake. Is it the same place? That was a lot of fun. I also remember stopping by your grandma’s house on the way home once. That was awkward. It is weird [...]

• Ski Dream

  An email to friends… I had a dream last night about the ski trip. The place is actually less of a cabin and more of a chalet. And it was summer, not winter; a very dry Tahoe summer. And there is a view of the lake but it is not Lake Tahoe. Looked more like [...]

• Rooftop

  I have sent the following email to a close friend of mine, although he has yet to respond… I am heading to my rooftop this weekend. Beer will be supplied. You interested? -Jeff It sounds dangerous, but if I didn’t do it, I wouldn’t be able to call myself a man. Or at least that [...]

• Travolta

  In an email to my brother, older sister and father, delivered at nearly 1am (in March 2007)… Actually, more important than that, I can somehow still type while drunk, thank god for spellcheck; not that ‘god,’ but the other god you read about in books, and hear about in movies; you know, John Travolta. This [...]

• carlosmomscooking.com

  I have a good friend who lives in the city (of San Francisco), a former coworker at one of my previous companies, a company that I will not discuss while blogging for fear of retribution, beatings and sabotage. Anyway, this guy’s mom makes some damned good authentic Mexican food and whenever she visits (from Tejas), [...]

• Dearest Geobears

  Keeping tabs with the class, updating the folks on the mundane ins and outs of daily life of engineering. Anybody down for a little bit of in and a whole lot of out? Maybe some In & Out? Dearest Geobears, I would like to wish everyone a prosperous new year. I hope everyone is enjoying [...]