October 2011
8 posts
The new gig
Have I told you all about my exciting new job? It’s at a newspaper, and I report up through the IT department…
I know what you’re thinking: IT is dead!
A while back I swore that after 14 or so years working as an IT professional, I wouldn’t waste my time in an environment of bullies and disablers. That attitude is dead and if it isn’t, someone should step on its neck...
Educating Gabriel, 13, an off-the-charts prodigy →
(via Instapaper)
This story (with the fugly title tag and url) about an amazingly smart kid ran last weekend and I’ve read it twice now— the second time without moving my lips!
It reminded me of the time I could teleport. I was nine, I could teleport between dimensions thanks to a device I made out of an old coffee can, a spool, 10 pennies, six rubber bands, a cork, a dowel, a 2.5”...
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Thursday 6/28/2007
I saw Steve in person several times when I worked at Apple. There were the events, both public and private, the “fireside chats” broadcast to other auditoriums scattered around the company and the last time, I scored a 5th row, aisle in Town Hall. It was late 2008. This was right after they released the Unibody MacBook and before his first leave of absence. As he walked down the steps...
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