Category: web

11/01/04 07:03 - ID#36423

Google employee test

In its quest to identify the programming elite, Google recently inserted an unusual aptitude test in such magazines as MIT's Technology Review, the Linux Journal, Mensa, Dr. Dobbs and Physics Today.

The 21-question test includes such geek brain twisters like, "How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?" and "On an infinite, two-dimensional rectangular lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?"

The test also includes more subjective, tongue-in-cheek requests like "Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality" and "What is the most beautiful math equation ever derived?

Google Working to Recruit Brainy Elite

Google also has this employee benefit going for it:

Here's the real insider's view: "Google employees must have the sweetest bottoms in the high-tech world. The women's toilets at Google were over-the-top, Toto bidet/toilets. They sprayed, fluffed and warm-air-dried.'' Never mind the IPO and pending piles o' cash; no wonder everyone there's in such a good mood.

SF Chronicle Gossip Column

Permalink: Google_employee_test.html
Words: 202
Location: San Francisco, CA

Category: holiday

11/01/04 02:22 - ID#36422

Halloween Castro style

Waiting for Market Street lines re-routed underground.

Looking down Castro Street toward Market

Main stage on Market @Castro

BART service extended 'til 1AM. Big whoop. ;)

[hide]Short video clip (2 minutes) - dark, choppy, Blair Witch style camera work. Dramamine strongly suggested.

[/hide]

Chronicle story and pix.

Note to (e:j3sse) - I was going to cut the video to "Sex Dwarf" [inlink]j3sse,12[/inlink] but that would have been more appropriate for the 'X rated' content which I sadly did not capture on film. Save that for Folsom.

Never did run into Haikuster. Maybe next time!

Permalink: Halloween_Castro_style.html
Words: 124
Location: San Francisco, CA

Category: holiday

10/31/04 11:38 - ID#36421

Everyday is Halloween

Ok, this doesn't look that different from what I ordinarily wear. Except for the skull mask, of course.

Getting down to the bottom of the candy barrel, then it's off to the Castro.

Permalink: Everyday_is_Halloween.html
Words: 35
Location: San Francisco, CA

Category: holiday

10/31/04 03:22 - ID#36420

tricked

My W. Nile exterminators [inlink]twisted,39[/inlink] are bailing on me. I really hate that.

Might downgrade my costume to generic mystical-style spook. My heart's not in it the same way. Better keep it simple.

I think it's very unlikely I'll have a (e:peep2peep) encounter tonight, but maybe I'll color a blue "e" on a Mylar balloon and attach it to myself as an (e:estrip) beacon. If any (e:peeps) see one bobbing in the crowd, that'd be me. It's always good to have at least one inexplicable component to your costume. Screw 'em if they can't deal with ambiguity.

Permalink: tricked.html
Words: 101
Location: San Francisco, CA

Category: family

10/31/04 02:32 - ID#36419

AARP

Dang. It's getting depressing talking to my Dad each week (Sunday ritual since college). His life is way more exciting than mine! This week alone he announced new plans to join friends on a sailing trip to the Bahamas in February (he was invited while they were playing tennis earlier in the week). This is the same couple he and my step-mother Jean went sailing with along the intra-coastal waterways a few months ago. AND he and Jean booked a 27-day trip to China in September '05. That's in addition to the family sailing trip to Antigua June '05. Cripes! When do I get to retire?

Permalink: AARP.html
Words: 106
Location: San Francisco, CA

10/31/04 01:00 - ID#36418

time is not on my side

good lord. how many watches do I have?

I don't even wear a watch any more. The two on the far left were gifts.

I also went through a ring-watch phase. Hey, they were originally $12/each, on sale 1/2 off. You can't even buy a watch battery for that!

Here's a close-up of my favorite. The face looks like a motherboard, and it glows in the dark. How cool is that?

Speaking of cool, glowy shit, (e:Soyeon) if you're looking for a computer bag for your new powerbook [inlink]soyeon,137[/inlink] (congrats, btw), I seriously love the one I have. Chrome "Sputnick" in sleek silver

. I used to bike to work with mine almost every day. If you're looking for something to accommodate all your peripherals too, I've managed to cram a lot of stuff in it. But I always seem to need a separate bag for something, which is why I got this one too: eBags TechWeave

(I got it in Ocean Blue). eBags is also having 20% off for Halloween (sale ends tonight). They usually run specials around Christmas too.

Anyway, last year I took two laptops, an external firewire drive, a DV camera, a digital camera, and a shitload of cables (can't wait for a wireless world) home for Christmas. That was fun going through airline security. Then I was really screwed when I had to bring presents back too. ;)

Permalink: time_is_not_on_my_side.html
Words: 263
Location: San Francisco, CA

Category: holiday

10/31/04 12:45 - ID#36417

Halloween Haiku-ster

virtual or real?
Hallow'd rift when worlds collide
through the looking glass

Ok. Along with sketching, add poetry to the list of things I suck at. ;)

(e:haikuster) I'll look for a bong-toting purple caterpillar [inlink]haikuster,30[/inlink] tomorrow night. Hopefully there won't be too many of them. Then again, it is the Castro.

Keep an eye out for Jambi the Genie from Pee Wee's Playhouse. I may be with two West Nile exterminators. That's Halloween for ya.

Permalink: Halloween_Haiku_ster.html
Words: 78
Location: San Francisco, CA

Category: holiday

10/30/04 08:50 - ID#36416

Mekka Lekka Hi, Mekka Hiney Ho

I think I'm going to be my favorite psychic personality for Halloween - Jambi the Genie from Pee Wee's Playhouse. My only production requirement is that at least 95% of the materials required have to come from my personal stash of fabric and crap. Here's what I've got for starters:

I even have a partial tube of green face cream. So if my test patch doesn't break out into hives today, I'm good to go.

Have fun at the party! Wish I could be there.

Permalink: Mekka_Lekka_Hi_Mekka_Hiney_Ho.html
Words: 88
Location: San Francisco, CA

10/29/04 12:28 - ID#36415

More Green

A few other tidbits about the SF Green Festival

--

Ride your bike and get $5 off admission

After-party Sat night includes:
Full bar, Organic Munchies
Free Bio-diesel shuttle service available from San Francisco Concourse

We are in need of:
- Office help with phones all next week
- Phone banking all day on Wednesday, Nov. 3
- Help Flyering at March on Wednesday, Nov. 3
- Help tabling at events over the next week.

Someone with a truck to help with pick-ups & drop-offs next week

(Especially transporting large bottles of water from Marin).
**Couches!! If you have a couch and you feel like lending it to the Green
Festival for the weekend, we would love you, and give you some complementary
passes in exchange.
- Artists? Help with painting/ decorations sometime over the next week.
- Volunteers to help prepare space for Woody Harrelson's "Further" bus at
Cell Space
- We can also use extra help with Festival set-up on Thursday and Friday.

Permalink: More_Green.html
Words: 168
Location: San Francisco, CA

10/28/04 05:50 - ID#36414

Immaterial girl

I tend to harbor the same sentiments [inlink]paul,2321[/inlink] as your student. Why potentially ruin a good thing over something as trivial as "real life?" ;)

Oh, and did I mention I'm actually a 93-year-old book-burning Cheney-lovin' ultra- conservative?

Permalink: Immaterial_girl.html
Words: 37
Location: San Francisco, CA

<-- Earlier Entries