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This page features every post I write, and is dedicated to Andrew Ho.

September 4, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Bee at Millenium Park

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/09/04/bee-at-millenium-park/

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There were a lot of these ladies at the park, and they were very busy.

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September 3, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Lake Point Tower

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/09/03/lake-point-tower/

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Lake Point Tower rising majestically from the trees.  Mei-Lin sais she thinks Oprah lives there, has four floors to herself.  She doesn’t like to feel crowded, I guess.

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September 2, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Maggie “Pencil Sketch”

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/09/02/maggie-pencil-sketch/

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My camera is dead so it is all about the Android phone now.  This is Maggie, played with in PicSay Pro.

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September 1, 2011
Free Style, Photo-a-Day, Sundry

Weekend Inspiration

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/09/01/weekend-inspiration/

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Weekends when the wife is not around I enjoy a visit to my favorite coffee shop.  On this occasion while one patron was transcribing musical notation another regular started to work on the math of an idea about solar power generation.

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August 31, 2011
Photo-a-Day, Sundry

All Roads Lead to San Jose

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/31/all-roads-lead-to-san-jose/

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Monday afternoon I biked down the Guadalupe trail past the airport to San Jose Diridon Caltrain and rode a comfy baby bullet home to Mountain View.

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August 29, 2011
About Me, Free Style, Photo-a-Day

Everyone Believes in Dogs

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/29/everyone-believes-in-dogs/

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I have been writing most days at 750words.com.  This is a little like Sy Safransky’s Notebook, as published in The Sun Magazine.

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August 28, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Morning Coffee

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/28/morning-coffee/

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Maggie, content to sun on the porch, spares a moment to humor me by looking at the camera.

See also: Jessica Eats Breakfast

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August 27, 2011
Photo-a-Day

We Don’t Serve Pigeons Here

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/27/we-dont-serve-pigeons-here/

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It is probably just as well

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August 25, 2011
About Me, News and Reaction, Quotes, Technology

Steve Jobs

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/25/steve-jobs-is-a-wise-man/

Personally, I am not fond of Apple products, but I can not help but admire Steve Jobs. I am enjoying a compendium of Steve Jobs quotes from the Wall Street Journal. This one hits close to home:

“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”

I work for an Information Technology bellwether, which is both highly profitable and obsessive over maintaining its profit margins. Costs must always be contained. While we have a variety of interesting technology we are working to develop, we are presently completing our latest round of workforce reductions. I wish our leadership could be a little more like Steve Jobs:

“This is not a one-man show. What’s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there’s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they’re not losers. What they didn’t have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.”

You know what John Chambers might say to that?

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are.”

Really, the whole collection is worth a read.

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August 24, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Pretty Clouds

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/24/pretty-clouds/

Rolled in early to the far side of campus for an All Hands meeting, and these clouds caught my eye.

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August 17, 2011
doodles, JIRA, Technical, Technology

TICKET. OR. GTFO.

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/17/ticket-or-gtfo/

I do not know the provenance of the source material, and can make no claims of intellectual property rights here. TinEye finds 550 similar images.

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August 14, 2011
Photo-a-Day

No Restrooms Beyond This Point

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/08/14/no-restrooms-beyond-this-point-2/

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Second test of Android photo sharing to WordPress.  Maybe I can get back on the photo-a-day wagon . . .

Boston airport, terminal B.

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