Archive for December, 2004

This is keeping me up nights

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

How I lost my best friend.

What a bunch of losers

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

…and I used to think that TiVo was cool, but it turns out that they’re a bunch of corporate tools. Does Hormel send the legal team after everyone that uses the word Spam incorrectly? Does google? Makes me almost want to ditch the damn thing… almost.
Aww… who am I kidding? I can’t stay mad [...]

Downward Spiral

Monday, December 13th, 2004

It’s sad when something that you used to work on goes to shit, but it appears that I can safely say that officemax.com is now a big pile of steaming crap. I check up on the site periodically, just to see if they made any changes to CopyMax (they hadn’t), and the damn thing didn’t [...]

Scohen’s interview question

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

I feel kind of bad. I gave a really hard interview today, and asked a bunch of computer sciencey questions, but it turns out the interviewee wasn’t a CS major.
So, my question, which I shamelessly stole from the VA guys is this:
Given a binary tree like:

b
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See Paul on TV

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

My Frenemy, Paul was on My Coolest Years on VH1 yesterday, and it was hilarious. He, like me, was a big geek in high school, but he took his geekdom to levels I never thought possible. His senior caption in his yearbook was an obfuscated computer program that spelled out –get this– “Dual Disk Drives”. [...]

Apparently, it’s cold

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Apparently it’s cold in California, not that I’d notice. I can’t get over seeing people with hats and scarves walking around –it’s still in the high 50’s. To me, it’s late fall kind of weather, which really isn’t so bad.
I took the bike out again and enjoyed some of the most insane roads I’ve [...]

Strange goings on

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

Every day here I wake up, and there’s this stuff coming in through the windows. In Cleveland, the same thing would happen, but it was nowhere near as frequent. Anyway, this stuff (I don’t know what to call it, but it’s really bright and warm) seems to come from this big bright ball in the [...]