I attended the 2008 RTP Product Design Street Faire this past Saturday. I don’t know what I expected, but it was a lot of fun. I chatted with just about every vendor, finding out a lot about the local small business market surrounding product design, prototyping, and marketing. And the free BBQ was a nice …
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an experiment
Even though I am outraged at the unjustified spike in fuel prices yesterday and today, I had to buy gas. All of the gas stations near me (around the 54/55 junction) are out of regular. Several were totally out of fuel. One, Crown, was not out of fuel, but they were out of regular. They’re …
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transcript
[This is the transcript of what I planned to say (but didn’t) at my aunt‘s funeral] How many of you only knew Cindy? Go ahead, raise your hands. Good. Ok – you all know me as “Mike”. Put your hands down. The rest of you know me as Warren. Either way, I’m her nephew. Cindy …
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reevu
I was watching a recorded edition of Beyond Tomorrow (from Science Channel) and saw an awesome-looking motorcyle helmet, the Reevu. It has a series of polycarbonate reflectors that take light coming into the helmet from the back, reflect it over the rider’s head, and display it on a small mirror just above the visor in …
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retirement party
My goal is to retire by the end of the year. To make sure I reach that goal, I’m requesting donations from friends, family, coworkers, acquaintances, and outright strangers. If you’d like to contribute to my retirement fund, please send me an email: retire@warrenmyers.com. Donations of any size are accepted, but I don’t give tax …
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in memoriam – Cindy Myers
Post Star link GUILDERLAND, Albany County – Cindy Lee Myers, age 55, of Western Avenue, Guilderland, died suddenly at her residence Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. Born in Liberty, N.Y., she had been a resident of the capital region for her entire life. She worked for Albany County Department of Social Services and was the assistant …
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12 may 1953 to 11 aug 2008 – cindy lee myers
I just found out my aunt died sometime between Saturday night and this morning. She didn’t call-in to work to say she’d be out, so one of her coworkers checked on her – and she didn’t answer the phone, so my dad, her older brother, went to her apartment to find out what was wrong. …
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traveling == car rentals
I travel for work. Because I fly hither and yon, I get to rent cars. Some of the time I get interesting ones. Mostly I get vehicles that drive, and get me from point A to point B and back again. In another life, I worked for Hertz in Latham NY. Working for Hertz was …
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Remembering Grandma Frances
Frances Helen Myers, 98, a former Greenwich resident, died Sunday, July 13, 2008, at the Pleasant Valley Nursing Facility in Argyle. Born Nov. 23, 1909, in Schenectady, she was the daughter of Joseph and Katherine Wilday McKinney. Frances was a member of the Centenary United Methodist Church in Greenwich. She enjoyed outdoor activities including hunting …
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why alcohol and cars don’t mix
I found out today when I logged into my email that one of my former coworkers was involved in a crash yesterday. 19 year old Justin Crouse was drunk and rammed my friend Philip’s car when he ran a red light in Raleigh yesterday. Right now, Philip’s in ICU in Raleigh. His girlfriend, who was …
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it’s a great start
Today the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Washington DC’s handgun ban, by upholding the plain text of the Second Amendment to our Constitution stating that gun ownership is a personal right. CNN story: cnn.com/2008/US/06/26/scotus.guns. The full text of the decision: 07-290.pdf. Hopefully this will start a trend across all of our courts …
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i love traveling
I hate not being home. I travel for a living now, performing site installations, upgrades, customizations, and on-site support for our customers. The travel’s a blast – see new places, try new food, drive different car. But not being home except weekends does kinda cut into one’s social activities. At this point, I wouldn’t trade …
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boot camp
I’m off to Sunnyvale CA for a week for some intensive, advanced product training for the software I install and handle on-site support for. Should be a long, tiring, fun week.
bridge cafe
From 273 W 38th St to 279 Water St in Manhattan is a bit of a hike. The way I walked was about 5.4 miles. Yes, I walked. If I’d known better how to get there, I could have done it in 4.2 miles. But I didn’t, so I walked the long way. The only …
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why i’m not moving office spaces
I follow Joel Spolsky’s blog/news site, joelonsoftware.com. His most recent addition is “Adventures in Office Space“. Apparently, they’ve run out of space in their 8th Avenue office, and will be moving to 55 Broadway in a couple months, once their renovations are in-place. The reason I mention this is that I interviewed with Fog Creek …
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god bless the lugs
I’m a member of TriLUG – the Triangle Linux User Group. Mostly I’m on the mailing lists as a lurker, sometimes as a contributor. But this week I asked a couple questions which the friendly community jumped-on to assist me with. Thanks guys!
directions
I met a friendly girl (Shelly) today at the subway station at 40th and 8th in front of the New York Times building. But the only reason I bring this up is because she asked me how to get to the number 7 subway. There I was, calmly reviewing the subway map so I could …
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haircut
I just had the best haircut ever. I’m in Manhattan this week for work, and on my way from the customer I’m working with to my hotel, I was accosted by a very friendly black guy who wanted to give me a haircut. Now that sounds pretty wierd, but he was standing in front of …
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email catharsis
I use Google’s free mail service. And each account gets the privilege of having over 6 gigabytes of storage, if needed. However, I don’t use anywhere near that much. I go through my old email about once a month and delete stuff I no longer need. For example, I’m on the TriLUG mailing list. But …
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preparing for change (part the second)
As with knowledge capture, so must any successful organization pursue training. Training need not be formal. It can be self-paced, on-the-job, as-you-go, or formal. I know that I have learned the most about the product I support not from formal training, but from actually supporting it. Part of that is because we have had a …
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preparing for change (part the first)
I have recently been preparing to change jobs within my company from Support to Professional Services. This has lots of caveats, concerns, and corners to shine light into, alleviate, and circumvent. The first thing that I did when I found out that I would, in fact, be able to move to ProServe from Support was …
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it’s sad to see a 17-year-old go so violently
I no longer drive a Mazda Protege. It bought the farm – as John so eloquently pointed out – Wednesday on my way to work. So, I was in need a quick replacement. Enter CarMax, stage left. I went after work Thursday, they had something I wanted at a price I was willing to pay. …
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the vagaries of memory
I doubt mankind will ever figure out how our memories work. Think about it for a second: you’re sitting in your car, listening to some radio station playing songs popular when you were a kid – a young kid. And then, lo and behold, you’re singing along with the radio – to songs you either …
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other drivers suck
I went to upstate NY for my fall break this past weekend. The trip up was great – until I got about 5 minutes from my parents’ house when a dumptruck driver decided he didn’t like Mazda Proteges and just changed lanes whilst I was next to him. Fortunately I-787 has fairly decent shoulders there, …
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airport security
This past weekend I had the, ahem, joy, to fly with firearms, and I was struck again by how stupid airport security really is. Of all the people you would think you would want to be onboard your flight, you’d think you would want someone who was competent in using a firearm – and who …
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