One Click

Pretty creative. I like it when they're all just standing looking up at you, waiting for your next move.

Crazy Car

So I walked out of Gold's Gym the other day and behold! I saw a pretty amazing car. (I only had my phone, so the photos aren't the highest quality.)

A Project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Six billion Others.

Brain Camera

So I was walking along outside today on my way to lunch and I was thinking about yesterday when I was walking back from the cafeteria, how I saw a small brown bunny chasing a crow in the grass, and how I wished that I would have had my camera at that moment to capture the little escapade, but carrying my camera around with me all the time would be a bother, even though it is pretty small and sleek and stylish... and I thought how nice it would be to have a very small but high-quality camera that I could have hanging from my keychain to capture such moments, and how technology will bring us to that place, surely... but then I took it a step further and thought about one day having a device that could capture exactly what my eyes are capturing, like tapping into my optic nerves and recording everything I'm visually seeing realtime, but I surmised that we're probably a long way out from that right now, since if we even play around with an optic nerve at all, it dies.

And THAT, my friends, was my thought... and also all one sentence. :)

All In a Day's Work

So I have a new job at Microsoft! Well, I technically work for Siemens and am a contractor for Microsoft. I work with the SQL Labs group in building 35, the team that supports all of the different labs used by the folks who create and test Microsoft SQL Server. It's a great job and pays well, but it's definitely a bottom-rung job, a foot in the door which will hopefully open up to bigger and better things.

Part of my job is yanking old hardware out of the labs and helping to install new hardware. The below photo shows some (not all!) of the gear that another contractor Mark and I pulled out of the labs yesterday to simply throw away. Mark said that if I could see an open field where they put everything that was thrown away from the Microsoft campus in one day, I would be shocked.

(Those servers aren't small, by the way.)

Bloomsday Run

Well I'm not actually as sore today as I thought I would be! Armando, his wife Lisa and friend Katie and myself ran the Bloomsday Run yesterday. For me it was my first time... and it was a blast! It's a big deal over there in Spokane... all of the news channels are covering it live, thousands of people show up to support the runners and over 40,000 people ran (I think).

Here are my stats. (And no, I didn't walk Doomsday Hill!)

Sufjan Stevens

The other night when I was at Tyler and Bianca's house doing the latest video bulletin shoot, Tyler had some fantastic, whimsical music playing on his stereo. "Who is this?" "Sufjan" "Oh, this is Sufjan!" Then I remembered that Gus had told me about Sufjan Stevens and played some of his music for me while I was in Spokane last time visiting... then Tom Hallstrom reminded me that he had played Sufjan for me at my condo once while visiting. Yet it was this final exposure to him that convinced me to purchase his latest album "Come On, Feel the Illinoise!" Amazing. Go ahead and think of any box, any size and shape and color and genre and title, and you cannot place this album into that box.