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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Bocce Ball

2 Comments Posted by on May 22, 2006

The VMware Hosted UI group (the group I’m a part of) went on a team-building exercise today. We had a nice meal and then went to play Bocce Ball, which is a game that until today I had very little knowledge of. It turns out to be a pretty cool game, with some strategy involved. [...]

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Do you trust your eyes?

1 Comment Posted by on May 21, 2006

I came across an awesome optical illusion on Digg. Stare at the center of the image for 15-30 seconds, and then move your mouse over it. You’ll see a color image, but it’s not really there. Move your eyes away and back to see how it really looks.

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Lost my hacking mojo

18 Comments Posted by on May 16, 2006

I’ve been trying to get out of this funk I’ve been in the past few weeks. It’s been far too hard to just sit down and code outside of work. I can’t even put together a release. A large part of this is due to the amount of work I’ve been doing for VMware as [...]

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The oxygen comes in two flavors

14 Comments Posted by on May 14, 2006

The oxygen comes in two flavors: “strong mint” and “grapefruit” and will cost 600 yen a can, including consumption tax. – MSN News Where to begin… I remember the idea of canned oxygen even back when I was a kid. It was a joke back then, of course, but the joke went that people are [...]

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Athena is dead :(

7 Comments Posted by on May 2, 2006

I woke up this morning to a disconnected SSH session between my laptop and my desktop, Athena. I checked gaim. Nope, still on the Internet. Maybe I got disconnected in the middle of the night, I thought? So I walked into my office room and checked on Athena. Dead. Just, dead. I couldn’t turn it [...]

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