Life and stuff

There’s a BART ticket in my pocket with 6.30 left waiting to be spent on a ride into SF. I hope class gets out early so I can hop over to the Metreon. Anime and comics at the Bandai Shop … /me drools

Here I am, on another mini-vacation from work. Instead of being an alternate for a murder trial in downtown LA, I find myself in Oakland for VxWorks training. Too bad this training almost feels like its a year too late, but still, I’m not going to object to learning stuff and running around on the company dime. Especially if it means I get to bart around the bay area at night. Earlier tonight I swung by Berkeley, tomorrow will probably be downtown SF, and maybe somewhere closer to Oakland on Wednesday.

I’m so much in a vacation mood that I even decided to splurge on a neat Simpsons photomosaic puzzle. Man, work is gonna be such a drag when I get back on Friday ..

On digital SLR color, from Big Ga of the dpreview forums:

I’ve got a load of wedding images from stuff like d2X and 1DSMk2 cameras and they are really nasty colour wise straight from the camera when compared to the E1. People look dead! And if you do start altering the saturation etc to try and get the colours back …. well its not as easy as that…. the bride is alive once more but she looks like she’s married a carrot !!

Yeah, its not really all that funny, but I still damn near rolled over laughing.  I think I’ve been exposed to too much lameness from a certain cat . . .

(from a slashdot post ..)

Are you Lonely ?

Don’t like working on your own ? Hate Making Decisions ?

Then Call a Meeting !!!!

YOU CAN…

SEE people
DRAW Flowcharts
FEEL Important
IMPRESS your collegues
FORM subcommittees
MAKE meaningless recommendations
All on Company Time

MEETINGS

The pratical alternative to work.

From the economist:

Students at Yale scored a big victory during last year’s football match against Harvard when they passed out pieces of paper to thousands of fans on the Harvard side of the stadium. The fans were told that, when held up, the bits would spell “Go Harvard”. In fact they spelled something else: