They had a health & fitness fair in the fitness center at work today, and I was there representing the taekwondo group. Among the various promotions, the fitness center was giving away clear plastic reusable water bottles with the logo of the company that handles our 401(k ( Read more... )

A bit of background: today was the end of our third major snowstorm in a week, each dumping 8-12 inches of snow. Usually we get one of these in a winter, at most ( Read more... )

The outing to the OSU basketball game was good. The company suite was nice, and the food was good. And OSU even won the game. The only bad part was the half-hour wait out in the cold for the shuttle back to the parking lot.

I guess I've been busy - I haven't posted since Sunday night.

I'm going to be in so much trouble with my co-workers when I get home. I just got back from Coronado Island with some other people in the class. It's a 15 minute ferry ride across the bay to the island. Then we walked across the island, which is beautiful, to the Hotel del Coronado, ( Read more... )

I got an email yesterday at work. My first paper for a peer-reviewed journal finally got published! It was hung up in copyright issues for two years because I made the mistake of asking the corporate legal office who could sign the copyright form, and they excel at killing deals by making unreasonable demands. One of my co-authors, who is far ( Read more... )

I am *so* not a morning person. I read this Dilbert yesterday and thought, "Yes! Exactly!"

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070201.html

Sorry I've been scarce. I've fallen into a work-related black hole, wherein the amount of work increases faster than we can keep up. Plus Master Choi wants me to come to extra classes, which I need and it will be good for me physically and emotionally, but it takes time away from other things. I did have a good class tonight, though. He spent a ( Read more... )

Spotted over the coffee machine in an engineering division:

Coffee Requirements DocumentAfter pouring your coffee, if there are less than 4 ml of coffee remaining in the pot, do not walk away. Make a new pot of coffee by placing two scoops of coffee grounds in the filter, then adding water from the properly filled water-measuring pot ( Read more... )

At work, I sometimes use an instrument called a rheometer to measure viscosity. Thanks to consolidation in the industry, there are only two companies left that make the type of high-end research instruments we use ( Read more... )

I think my company is blocking LiveJournal now. I haven't been able to access it all week. If I'm reading the error messages correctly, there's a DNS lookup error. I don't have problems with any other external sites.

Sigh.