On the Big Island of Hawaii, clear sunny days give way to warm starry nights via glowing orange-red sunsets. A few examples from Captain Cook and Kailua-Kona on the Kona coast, and from the top of Mauna Kea.
Amazing Hawaiian Sunsets
Adding a little reggae makes a bad song good…
.. and a good song like Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” even better.
Lake Sammamish
Western Washington state is one of the most beautiful places in the world, gloriously green all over. When I first moved here, the scent of the evergreen trees was ever present… it smelled like Christmas everyday.
A great take on what it’s like to work at Microsoft.
At Microsoft, bugs get opened, triaged, de-duplicated, assigned, re-assigned, re-re-assigned, resolved, closed, re-opened, and re-resolved on the glide path to zero blocking bugs for ship. Software engineering is true engineering, but it’s messy – it comes in fits and starts, and just when you get rolling along,
Oh. Time for a break.
A soda sounds good,
Microsoft will keep you well-caffienated and hydrated. There are coolers with carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, dairy, juices, flavored waters, dispensing machines with over 100 options, tea, hot chocolate, hot apple cider, Starbucks coffee,
(they don’t go out of order all that often, but people post some great signs when they do,) and filtered cold, room temperature, and hot water,
conveniently labeled by facilities. These kitchen areas can be a cornucopia of amusement. From the corporately-mandated slapstick attempts to do the right thing,
(those first-generation biodegradable utensils just couldn’t stand the heat in the kitchen…
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I’ve lost access to 2 online accounts – including a bank account — because of ridiculous security questions like these and this one…
What’s the first nickname your spouse had?
Kaylee is a “Velcro dog” for sure.
There’s a term people use for dogs that stay constantly by their owners: velcro dogs. These canines are akin to the famous fabric hook-and-loop fastener in that they cling strongly to their person and it can be difficult to separate them. Some velcro dogs will also display separation anxiety and become destructive to property or themselves when unable to be with their favorite human. I should also point out that some people have separation anxiety from their dogs and actually seek out or encourage velcro behavior.
I, for one, like being able to go to the bathroom without being dogged or hounded by four-legged critters. Even the terms “to dog” and “hounding” came about from the fact that canines can be hard to get away from. That being said, I do have a velcro dog. Yep, that’s right, Grimm is as sticky as glue–Gorilla glue, not the puny Elmer’s variety. And…
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