Category: misc.

I swear, something about the way the hallways and doorways are laid out at MSFT is completely counterintuitive as far as actual usability goes. I can’t quite put my finger on it – they don’t seem any narrower than other hallways, but somehow people are always in each others’ way or awkwardly almost crashing into… Continue reading Hallway Bumper Cars (sans car)

Seriously, I do NOT understand cases like this one, where people go to great lengths to avoid being called for jury duty. My whole life I have been dying to serve jury duty, and learn more about the way our courts work first-hand. I’ve never seen the inside of a courtroom, except when delivering documents… Continue reading Jury Duty

First of all, when the phone extensions are five digits long, you know you work in a bigass company. Ahem: I forgot my badge AGAIN this morning. That would be, probably the 5th time in the past month – and I’ve NEVER forgotten my badge until the past month. Moving has been rough – I… Continue reading x60000

And the award goes to… http://www.animatedknots.com/

No, this isn’t a tribute to Mick and the Stones. Grant and I are painting basically everything we own black. Okay, not EVERYTHING, but we bought a gorgeous dining room set that’s black, and we’re trying to tie in a bunch of other furniture of various bleh shades and make it all match and look… Continue reading Paint It Black

Today I came across the word “blaugrana” in my linguistic travels. blaugrana adj inv Relatiu o pertanyent al Futbol Club Barcelona. blau_gra_na. What does it mean, you ask? “Related or pertaining to the Futbol Club of Barcelona”. There’s a fucking valid DICTIONARY for their equivalent of “Seahawkian”. I MISS SPAIN SOMETIMES.

Yeah, it’s weird. In the past few months I’ve gone to more cool independent-like indie music shows than I have in ages, and yet lately I’m rocking out to corporate-sponsored rock on Pandora. But seriously, this one channel is so great – it’s for Scion, which is already INCREDIBLY clichéd and cheesy since I frickin’… Continue reading Corporate Music Sellout City, Pop. 1 (me)

Man, so working with data sets that are as massive as the ones I now deal with, you can’t help but occasionally actually read something in them instead of just analyzing them for their given purpose. Like the other day, in a block of randomly compiled sentences, I came across one that translated to “because… Continue reading Smurftymology

Yep, it’s awesome. I have a Catalan flag displayed proudly in my office. The work itself is interesting, even the semi-boring administrative-type stuff, because it all has to do with CATALAN at the end of the day. I also get to speak a zillion languages with my surrounding coworkers, also a blast. And I learn… Continue reading Micro-tastic

I have this great new coworker Katy, she’s a lot of fun. Turns out we have similar taste in clothes, music, etc. and she really brings a fun energy to the office, all my coworkers and I think she’s just a ton of fun and we all get along with her well. So today a… Continue reading Bart Simpson’s shoe