fighting the lack of good ideas
While flying to Sunnyvale yesterday, I had the “privilege” to see a small wildfire from the air. It was very small, on the order of a couple acres, and somewhere nearish to Monterey, and close to the coast. The orange smoke was quite striking from the air. Hopefully, firefighters have been able to get it…
I’m off to Sunnyvale CA for a week for some intensive, advanced product training for the software I install and handle on-site support for. Should be a long, tiring, fun week.
I’m a huge fan of the Discovery Channel series, Cash Cab. While in New York this week, I kept looking for the elusive 1-in-13000 cabs that Ben Bailey drives, hoping for the opportunity to hop in and play the game. Well, I didn’t have a chance to get in, but I saw the cab Tuesday…
From 273 W 38th St to 279 Water St in Manhattan is a bit of a hike. The way I walked was about 5.4 miles. Yes, I walked. If I’d known better how to get there, I could have done it in 4.2 miles. But I didn’t, so I walked the long way. The only…
…to bring you this update: I just saw a guy climbing the side of the New York Times building here in Manhattan. Not sure if it’s the same guy who climbed the Eiffel Tower, but it was interesting. Definitely not something you see every day.
I follow Joel Spolsky’s blog/news site, joelonsoftware.com. His most recent addition is “Adventures in Office Space“. Apparently, they’ve run out of space in their 8th Avenue office, and will be moving to 55 Broadway in a couple months, once their renovations are in-place. The reason I mention this is that I interviewed with Fog Creek…
I’ve now been to 1611 Broadway twice. Once last December when I was interviewing at FogCreek, and then again Tuesday this week after hitting the Museum Mile Festival in Manhattan. As a side note,walking down the middle of 5th Avenue is a blast – what’s normally a bustling, jam-packed 20 blocks was cordoned-off by the…