The flight yesterday was great although the weather did not fully cooperate; after a couple of days of sun, the clouds moved in and there was a light rain falling by the time we got aloft. However, the winds were quite light and there wasn’t much turbulence. After a bit, though, I discovered that my […]
It’s lunch time — actually 1:30 — on Wednesday, and I’m still full from dinner yesterday. We had a very nice turnout for my farewell dinner, and Craig presented me with some BAF tchotchke that he and his daughter had accessorized with stickers advertising the web site we’ve been developing. I was quite moved. My […]
As a farewell and an appeal to come back, Seattle has offered up some wonderful weather this week. It is sunny and bright outside, and “the mountain” (Mount Ranier) is clearly visible to the south, towering over the Cascades. I’m wrapping up work on a complex (for me, anyway) Flash tutorial, and trying to clear […]
Back at work on Monday after a wonderful weekend skiing at Whistler. We were a bit delayed in leaving Seattle (a rare blizzard struck the city Thursday night) but by the time we arrived on Friday in the early afternoon all our troubles were behind us. The snow conditions were great, all of the runs […]
There’s a uniquely betrayed feeling you get when you lose work because your computer has crashed. I’m in the middle of developing a flash tutorial animation for my client(yes, I do do real work) to explain to their customers how the moderately complex security system protecting their data works. I was working on some tricky […]
Some books I’ve finished recently: Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card. Newest book in the Bean series, a follow-on to Card’s earlier success Ender’s Game and its sequels. Good fun sci-fi, not too heavy. An entertaining way to waste some quality time. 3 out of 5. Thirtynothing, by Lisa Jewell. A fun, romantic […]
I think I may have a slightly addictive personality, which came out Monday night when I was working on a small presentation for Tuesday. The assignment was to create a 5-7 minute presentation. Now I *know* that some presentations can take 10 minutes to cover a single, high value Powerpoint page, but I still spent […]