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The morning at work…
Yep, that’s a fire truck. Bunch of co-workers standing to the left milling around aimlessly due to a (false) fire alarm that meant for evacuations. Pretty impressive response: City of Redmond rolled what I counted as 4 units, and the City of Kirkland rolled 1 as well. This isn’t normally what people mean when they…
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What a great weekend
(I’m including Thursday night as the official start of my weekend, since I took Friday off) Thursday night: telescope until 4:30am Friday: Slept till 11:30am. Caught up on e-mail, played some Grand Theft Auto IV. Saturday: Seattle Cheese Festival, followed by an acquisition of scallops and spot prawns at the Pike Place Fish Market in…
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The weather is warming and the clouds are vanishing
Seattle in the summertime, oh how I love it. Today, the temperature breached the 80°F mark, and there hasn’t been a cloud in the sky. A sign of things to come. As has become common practice for me now, anytime there hasn’t been clouds, I’ve been out at night with the telescope and last night…
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25x revenue is a company valuation? Huh?
I was reading the article by Mark Evans that laid out how Flickr could have an independent valuation of $4 billion dollars. He used a multiplier defined by Henry Blodgett in determining the value of Facebook: 25 times a company’s annual revenue is their valuation. Wow. I decided to apply this to a few other…
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Cold weather and more viewing
I looked at the Clear Sky Chart for my local viewing area a few days back, and I noticed a wonderful combination of things: Friday night was scheduled to be clear and the moon wasn’t going to rise until 2am. Friday night being a weekend meant I didn’t have to get up early the next…
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Losing good ideas
I was driving home yesterday, and had a brilliant idea about a project I’m doing at work. It was so good, I knew I’d remember it later. Problem is, I remember having a great idea – but don’t recall what the idea was. *sigh* I should start e-mailing myself ideas from my phone. Or recording…
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Random Stat of the Day
Like Jeremyah, I’m a big fan of random personal statistics. Here’s one for today: number of Amazon purchases I’ve made over time. First Amazon purchase for me? September 17, 1999. (ps: does this graph remind anyone else of an obscene hand gesture?)
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CAPTCHA failure
Last time I checked, “wsaezxsq” is not a word, contrary to what the prompt would make you think.
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Random Gifts from Texas
A few weeks back, I had a cryptic e-mail message from my friend Karl: From: [redacted] Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:00:16 +0000 To: marius@marius.org Subject: April 27 I sent y’all an unbirthday present. I think I got the date right, though I’m not too good at math and it is a leap year … …
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Crazy weather, and the answer to what was for dinner
Let me start by saying I can’t believe it’s snowing. In Seattle. In April. It was 80° and sunny last Saturday. I guess that was summer, and we’ve already moved into next winter. Grr. A few days ago I posted a picture of what we had just cooked for dinner, and a few of you…