I am crankin' to the Beatles singing that Happiness is a Warm Gun. Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot ...
Today is a good day. I got to work and my new digital camera was waiting! After two vendors who didn't work out ... pcwonders.com and necx.com, Warren clued me in to d-store.com, who, after a very friendly chat with a guy on the phone who explained that they were snowed in and wouldn't make that day's UPS pickup, sent me Canon PowerShot A50 UPS overnight. After this much waiting, I was ready to splurge on shipping.
The rechargeable battery pack is back-ordered though. Warren says take it easy on the LCD and there shouldn't be no problems.
After lunch, I found my box from Amazon in my chair ... best of Three Dog Night and The Zombies, The Beatles' White Album, and two books, one which had struck me in a bookstore as a nice secular look at Christ, and the other a biography of Carl Sagan.
Hrmm. So, I couldn't get gphoto
working with my new camera under FreeBSD. I hooked it up to our Linux server
though and now I'm having fun. Gphoto's interface is a creaky alpha, but it
is stable and more useful than the freaking Windows software that came with
the camera.
So, let me introduce you to Warren. Warren's the other half of the IS department here at Tellme. I'm the original half. As I explained to an interviewee today, Warren does Windows and I ... don't. I tried, at first, but well ... it aint my bag, baby.
Other good things to come along, a friend of mine interviewed here today. Let us just say that Gina is sufficiently pleased that I may be getting a free week of home-cooked meals from our cute webmaster. Gosh. I like righteous food. I heard there's a rumor that we might have a masseuse come by sometime. Home-cooked food, a T1, root, and a well-tended back? Dannyman Heaven! I'll never get home!
Which I've been doing lately ... I'll come home in the evening like normal people just to chill out a bit, and then head back in in the evening. Not like I got much better to do. The apartment is a mess. Dave is good to hang out with but I'm slightly more fastidious. I'm looking for a place in February, moving in March. Hopefully somewhere near our new office in downtown Mountain View.
Been spending a lot of time at work lately. I've been doing things I've never done before with less senior supervision than I'd like, but that's how things work out here. These days though, I have a mentor in another department that I can occasionally pull advice from. Everyone around here is bustin' butt though, fulfilling the stereotype of the hard-working, industrious, resourceful, retire-a-millionaire-by-30 image of Silicon Valley you see on TV. My 23 years are about on par with lots of my co-workers. Some of the engineers and most of the managers are maybe a decade or more older, but there are few gray hairs around here. At dinner, Mike McCue, our fearless leader, pointed out that if anyone was going gray that it would increase our valuation.
Millionaire by thirty huh? Valuation? Everyone talks about stuff like that out here. It's freakin' weird. A friend at VA Linux recently shared with me that when they recently went public, for a short while, at least on paper, she was ... technically, a millionaire. Wow. After hearing how many shares I had in Tellme, she said very simply "Well, if they go public at x dollars a share, you'll be a millionaire!" To be honest, I had never thougt of it exactly that way ...
It's enough to make your head swim, but since this is not stuff I really understand or am really interested in, I just clear it from my mind. Nice things happen to nice folk sometimes. I just keep an eye on my financial interests, and right now, I don't have any gripes.
I'm coming across pretty dull here eh? I promise, I'll get out more ... and I'll take some pictures too!
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