Archive for the ‘oompa loompas of science!’ Category

Pet Peeve: The “Did you see the e-mail?” e-mail

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I see no point to the "Did you see my/her/his e-mail?" e-mail, nor its close cousin, the "Please respond to my/his/her e-mail," e-mail. It is particularly vexing when received less than 24 hours after the original mail, and it's downright annoying when received less than 8 hours after the ...

Productive!

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Stuff done today: Lots of work, including making peace with a guy who'd been bugging me...worked straight through lunch even and ended up eating "lunch" at 4pm DMV: Renewed driver's license, renewed plates, finally changed name on title of car (2+ years post-marriage) and filed the release of lien paperwork from (blush) ...

Going back to work blues

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I'm really not looking forward to going back to work "normally." I've been working from home this past week, and my home office in our basement is *way* better than my work office. Because my old (from 1999) 19" CRT died, I now have a spiffy 22" widescreen ...

Unappreciated Awesome

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I'm working on a presentation for work. It's coming out so well, and making my product look so good, that it's killing me that no one is around right now to appreciate my pure awesome. I wish I could share, but I can't. It's so pretty!!

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Friday, August 8th, 2008

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Typhoons & other fun things

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Even though it's still pretty hot and humid here, my walk to work this morning was made better thanks to wind gusts. It reminded me of Chicago, honestly. I have those cool wind gusts thanks to typhoon Fung-Wong (Phoenix), which is sitting over the southern part of Taiwan. ...

What’s Mandarin for procrastination?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I need to pack. I leave for Taipei, Taiwan (by way of a long-ish layover at LAX) at roughly 8amCT on Saturday, meaning I need to leave the house by 6:15am. Tomorrow night, I'm going to Ravinia with friends, so I need to pack tonight. I'm still debating as ...

Something a bit sad?

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

If you look back in the archives at this post, I could have posted it last month and it would have been almost totally accurate. Yet, the post was made about 3.5 years ago. I guess the good news is that I'm finally making progress. I'll start ...

Taiwan!

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

So, it's now 100% confirmed that I will be going to Taipei in August for work! Yay! There was a brief, fleeting opportunity to go to Beijing before or after, but it turns out that (unsurprisingly) the Chinese consulate is backed up for visa requests and is basically ...

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Monday, July 14th, 2008

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