September 08, 2010

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 10:04 PM

Good morning! The girls didn't do much to help the boys get ready for school today. So after the boys got dressed, we put together their lunches and I took 'em for breakfast at Donut Fresh Express. Donuts, juice, and egg sandwiches. Luckily got them back home in time to catch their bus. 8:12am

Man! Despite being online till past 10 o'clock last night, I still wake up to 13 work related emails. The engineering world never sleeps, especially when you have offices in India and Finland. 9:11am

I knew my MacBook could do hi-def video output via its Mini DisplayPort, but I wasn't aware it had optical digital audio outputs. Must order a cable soon... 10:11am

Stepped out for a late lunch at Cafe on the Oval and a fresh coffee at DFE. Back to debuggin'... 1:58pm

WSJ article: Do Techies Make Good Leaders? 6:43pm

Claire made another excellent dinner. And once again, because it wasn't something familiar that Michelle would make, there was some push back from the boys. Sadly Claire didn't get to enjoy it until she got back from her first piano lesson. Well, first in several years... 6:45pm

Another interesting WSJ article: The Perfect Salary for Happiness: $75,000 6:49pm

Calvin and Hobbes: this is so Michael, except put in Nintendo in place of "TV Shows". 6:51pm

NYTimes: Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits Psychologists have discovered that some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong. 6:55pm

Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee, Bieber has "racks of servers dedicated to him." Gack! 6:59pm

How reliable is science? Turns out that scientific fraud is a low-risk, high-reward activity and we still tend to equate peer review with correctness. 7:03pm

Put Michelle on speaker phone for 20 minutes so that the kids could all talk with her. They all miss her and can't wait to see her again on Friday. 8:07pm

Nerdgasm of the day: Google Weather for Emacs 8:18pm

Got the boys down to bed. Watched one sitcom with the girls. Now just one more conference call and then I can go to bed. 8:58pm

Ah, finally done with email and conference calls... at least until tomorrow. Good night all! 10:04pm

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