This happened some time ago but I was reminded of it by neodymium155's post about security at the Lab and decided to share.

I was hauling a computer across the EA campus and a security guard stopped me to ask where I was taking it. "My cube on 250-4," I told him. He said that was fine and turned to leave, before he did I just had to ask him what answer wouldn ( Read more... )

neodymium155 is heading to London and Iceland shortly. To prevent a dull and restless trip, I am assigning him a photo scavenger hunt. I have a few ideas so far, but I need more ( Read more... )

To make things worse, I spent about five hours today at the school getting things ready for the first day on Monday. Hauling desks, sorting boxes, setting up computers, mounting whiteboards, etc. So very sore.

But back to the original soreness - the cave. neodymium155, I'm sorry to say that it's a good thing you didn't go, as you wouldn't have made it past ( Read more... )

Last Friday Heather, her coworkers (yes, her work paid for her to go), neodymium155, auto_de_fe, her dad, and I went to the Crucible's Fire Arts Festival in Oakland. A truly awesome tiem was had by all.

Most importantly, you MUST see the videos for:


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In Act One, I took off an afternoon from work to go pay a surprise visit to neodymium155 out at the lab. Yes, I know Lawrence Livermore National Labs isn't exactly structured for surprise social visits. But what was worse was that I got out of work and suddenly realized my motorcycle was in the shop (which is true) so I couldn't get out there without having ( Read more... )

Most recently, chaleur23 gave me a list of coworkers (she is a once and future EA employee) with boats that I could ride. So I went around the harbour hopping in boats and seeing if they were ready to go, until I jumped into one in which a woman was already at the helm. I sheepishly explained to her that I found her name on this list of people with boats I ( Read more... )

On Friday night H, neodymium155 and I met up at the little roadside carnival that's been by the 880 near Oakland airport for the last week or so. I think the reason so many kids are scared of clowns is that clowns are often played by carnies and carnies are scary. More precisely, midway game carnies are scary ( Read more... )

Questions by neodymium155

1) You are offered the Antarctic dream, your choice of duty at any American station or ship for an entire year. There is no escape. Communication is limited. How will you maintain? How will you keep others from wanting to kill you?

This is a hard one, since I think I would hold up pretty well without much adjustment, but the ( Read more... )

Attention chaleur23, neodymium155, and niknakpadywak: I have rediscovered the Santa Cruz Hell Hole. It was right along the streambed where we were looking but higher up than I remembered. Anyone want to go caving?


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