Comments(1)Hiking and packing
After a great fish dinner and seeing the New Pornographers on Friday night with Glenn and friends (thanks Glenn!) (Seattlest has a review of the Saturday show. Bleeding Heart Show was great on Friday!) I woke up early for a 11 mile hike with Katrina to Myrtle lake. She had me nervous with strict instructions on how much water to bring (3 liters) and how much food (300 calories an hour) but the hike wasn’t so bad. Check out her blog for more details.
I’ve got a few pictures on my Zooomr page but this is my favorite:
It was good to get out of the city and get some fresh air because I spent a full day Sunday packing because today I took possession of my new loft.
Links 09-10-07
I need to blog more.
Saturday I helped my friend and co-worker get his house ready to sell by painting his basement. Saturday night went to a crazy house party and Sunday was hot and sunny so I took a few people boating. Probably one of the boats last outings because the weather is going to turn any week now and I need to sell it if I’m ever going to be able to afford two mortgages!
Here are some links:
- Google’s New York employees hit the clubs – Getting on the list, especially in NYC, is a nice perk
- Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Education
- NYT Mag, In Nature’s Casino – Interesting article on risk and how its quantified and financed. If I were more mathematically inclined I would have gone to Wall Street
- Challenging the Generals – Interesting article on the problems when there is a gulf between management and the people on the front line. I bet the situation outlined in the article with the US Army is similar to large dysfunctional companies like Microsoft
- Minding the Meeting, or Your Computer? – When I Microsoft I always used to bring my laptop to meetings and only half participate in meetings. I then noticed that our most senior managers never used their laptops in meetings. I then decided that, like them, if you’re going to commit 30 minutes or an hour to a meeting commit 100% of your attention and push back on meetings that you don’t really need to attend.