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Richard suggested that people turn up wearing tuxes and hawaiian shirts, as a tribute to our office manager who's headed back stateside. Then he backed down to "a nice suit and a hawaiian shirt". In the end, ( it was a little half-hearted... )

Back from Seattle, so I've unlocked all the posts made while I was there (no sense advertising to all that I'm not at home, you know?) and I may have a few more comments to add later.

Oh, and apologies to those I didn't manage to meet up with. Every time I had a spare moment, someone dragged me off to a bar, which played hell with my planning skills. In fact, even the people I did meet up with I met in a bar.

I'm in Seattle - in the WAC, to be precise - and will be here for the next two weeks. I'm also currently expecting my luggage to arrive at some point. I am now regretting my quip to the check-in desk as I heaved my bag onto the conveyer: "Do you want it checked through to Seattle?", he asked, and I replied, "Sure. I don't want to see it again <wry chuckle>".

( random notes )

incoming waider alert: August 31st - September 13th. YHBW.

You may be drinking with some techie people if you say,

I still don't know what "persistent rebalance" means!

and everyone laughs.

Problem of the day: speed of light insufficiently fast.

I met a guy today who I used work with back in 1998. And the first thing that came to mind when he came over to (re)introduce himself was that I'd loaned him a book, and never got it back from him.

Snow Crash, in case you're wondering.

dave: so the Blood Donations guys got in touch to say my details were on that laptop that got stolen.[1]
waider: someone's cloning you right now
dave: and we're hiring!

[1] The Irish blood donations people lost a laptop in New York recently with the details of 150,000 blood donors on board.

I was shooting the breeze somewhat with one of our security folks today, and I jokingly said something like, "yes, but I'm crazy", to which he replied (approximately), "sure you're crazy, but you do things the right way".
Which was nice.

Loosely paraphrased from a conference call today:

engineer 1: It's not like this was handed down from the mountaintop by Moses.
engineer 2: Right. Besides, I looked him up in the company phonebook, and there's no listing.

I got promotionated. I am, like, totally senior to my last-year self.

waider@amazon.com: > uptime 09:01:30 up 1 year

"can you update that file for me again?"
"I've given you sudo access. work away... hey! where's my server gone?"

He claims it was tcpdump that did it.

Two things that amused me while interviewing today:

This part of <Considerably Popular Open Source Project> works because I fixed it, and
I didn't know this when I was interviewed, either

> telnet server 21
200 server FTP server ready

followed by
421 server unavailable

and then briefly (unhappily)
Connection refused by host

and finally
200 server FTP server ready

Yay!

My trip to Seattle in 6,500 words and 30 photos.

By curious coincidence, the first and last photos I took both feature the Space Needle. Nothing uploaded yet as I'm still sorting out the pics.

just back from Seattle. I have funny things to write. At least, I think they're funny. Of course, I also think it's 4:45 am and the presence of strong sunshine is confounding me.

I arrived in Seattle on Thursday evening, and promptly wound up in a pub. Since arriving:

Telemarketing call. Telesurvey, actually, but no difference. To my corporate apartment, as I walked in the door. FUCKING LEECHES.
Sung to by random guy on street. Well, random guy wanted to sing a song from me to Broenwynn. The fact that I joined in may have invalidated the deal. Broenwynn was amused. Random guy got five bucks and an invite to Broenwynn's coffee shop to sing to her patrons.
Other random guy: You're a celebrity, aren't you? Who are you? Me: No, I'm just a tourist. ORG: You've gotta be a celebrity, you're grinning when you say "no"
ORG also tried to BUY a cigarette off Broen.
Scott #1: You guys have been sitting out here all night. What's with the accents? (Broen's accent is predominantly Australian)
Scott #2 was the guitarist in the pub band, so for a few minutes I was wearing a guitar at least part of which was about as old as me. Alas, the band had stopped playing so I didn't get to jam. Maybe that was a good thing, though.
Rude coffee, complete with plastic lid flipped unenthusiastically onto the counter.
Carded. Offered my passport as ID. "This isn't you.". Jeez.
Met up with anavolena and her SO.
Watched some bad TV - both quality of programming and quality of reception. When Aboda say their apartments are like home away from home, I didn't think they'd actually include the dubious and limited cable reception in the offer.

Today I am going to swan around as a tourist for a bit, before catching up with Broen for more beers.

rimrunner, I've not forgotten about calling, I'm just Insufficiently Organized :)

I'll be arriving in Seattle at 7pmish on Thursday, and in town until the morning of the 22nd. I'll be staying in an apartment on 1st Ave. (map), and while I won't have a car I've been offered ferrying to and fro by a friend if required, plus the Elder Waide is in town 14th-19th to keep me ~~drunk~~ company. Let me know if you're in the area and up for a few drinks or whatever.

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Company Christmas Party 2008

post-trip note

back on the block

attention Seattle

warning signs

damned physics

no, really, I'm not petty

office conversation

odd (but good) compliment

this policy is carved in stone

since it's now pretty much official

anniversary

friends don't let friends have sudo access

nerd glee is unseemly

work for the day

my summer vacation, by Ronan Waide, aged 33 and 1/4

I'm /such/ a tourist

and we're back

travel update

reminder: waider in Seattle

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