“Sure, thing!”

I recently sent a small request to an engineering leader in another team where I work at Yahoo!, and got this quick response:
Sure, thing.
An inadvertent comma puts me squarely in the cast of the Aadams Family!

how do people survive w/o a techie in the house?

Sunday night I noticed that our Tivo HD box had not recorded any new movies. I checked and discovered that the entire To-Do list was suspended, with a message next to each entry saying no shows found. But on clicking through, clearly there were lots of upcoming shows. Being a programmer gives me a high [...]

Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show

We rented Mr. Vaughn’s DVD the other night and went for a wild 30-day tour-bus ride with him + a host of comedians. An amazingly funny film – highly recommended.

The iPhone 3g goes “buh-bye”

I tried. I love the design. The apps are incredibly beautiful. But I can’t justify ~$1800 over two years for a phone whose battery doesn’t last a business day. Thus my iphone is going back shortly for a refund.
After about 8-9 hours it goes into “20% remaining” panic – that’s a death cookie. The treo [...]

Labradoodle Lion Cut

We are thinking of dressing up our Mini Labradoodle, Bronco, as a lion for Halloween. What we need is someone good with photoshop who could show us what he might look like based on his image below plus one of these very funny images of a cat who got a lion cut by accident (snopes [...]