I'm still here

Posted by Scott Laird Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:37:53 GMT

I just wanted to say that I’m still here, I’ve just been really busy the past week or so dealing with Thanksgiving, flying to California, and starting a new job. I think tomorrow will be a relatively light day, so hopefully I’ll be able to get back to Typo hacking, so I can get my notification code into the tree sooner rather then later. Once that’s committed, I can start closing the big pile of bugs that has piled up over the last week.

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Headed to Google

Posted by Scott Laird Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:14:27 GMT

So here’s my big news: I’m starting work as a Site Reliability Engineer for Google, starting on Monday. The job is based in Kirkland, WA, but I’ll be spending a lot of time in the very near future at Google’s HQ in Mountain View, CA.

So what does this mean for me and Typo? I have no idea. The next week is going to be completely insane, and I doubt that I’ll have time to finish the email notification code that I’ve been working on, much less fix the Flickr bug that’s been discussed at length recently. Once I get settled in at Google I’ll have a better idea how this sort of thing works.

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Arrived in Sunnyvale

Posted by Scott Laird Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:16:15 GMT

I just made it into my hotel in Sunnyvale. The Grand Hotel seems nice enough–the rooms are big, it comes with free breakfast, and they don’t seem to charge for IP. There’s no wireless access, but there’s a convenient jack in the wall and an Ethernet cable in the desk. Of course, it’d be a bit more convenient if there was a working DHCP server on the network, but I wouldn’t be here if that sort of thing was really a problem for me.

It looks like I’ll be meeting a few people for dinner tomorrow at Kal’s BBQ on Matilda in Sunnyvale around 7:00; feel free to drop by if you’re interested in saying hi.

Finally, I’m still planning on putting out another Typo release tonight, but it’ll be another hour or two.

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Travelling to the Bay Area

Posted by Scott Laird Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:47:52 GMT

I’m going to be in Sunnyvale for a while later this week, and I’m completely free on Thursday evening. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Where in the US?

Posted by Scott Laird Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:37:03 GMT

One of this morning’s blog reading discoveries was a post by Kellan on Find Your Spot, a “where in the US you should live” survey. It asks you a ton of questions about weather, cultural activities, transportation, and recreation and then recommends the 24 best places in the US for you to live. Sounds like fun, right?

Unfortunately, it seems to be dreadfully wrong. My top 3 results:

  1. Kent, Washington
  2. Provo/Orem, Utah
  3. Tacoma, Washington

I mean, I guess it’s nice that 2 out of the top 3 are within an hour of where I live, but Kent? I mean, I guess it’s close to Ikea, and it’s easy to navigate, with all of the big wide streets full of warehouses, but other then that, it’s the butt of most “Seattle suburbs” jokes. Go watch reruns of Almost Live for edification. Tacoma’s supposed to be better then it was, but it’s not exactly what I’m looking for, either.

I’m going to resist commenting on Provo. I’ve been there a couple times, once driving through as part of a road trip, the other on work, and I have *no* desire to go back, much less live there.

The first batch of questions were on weather–I thought that I said that I don’t like cold streaks, warm is good, moderate weather is best, sun is good, but a bit of snow is nice. I suppose that explains number 5 on the list: Anchorage, Alaska.

Here’s the full list:

  1. Kent, WA
  2. Provo-Orem, UT
  3. Tacoma, WA
  4. Ann Arbor, MI
  5. Anchorage, AK
  6. Fort Collins, CO
  7. Olympia, WA
  8. Hampton, VA
  9. Bellingham, WA (Hey! I’m from there)
  10. Hickory, NC
  11. Tulsa, OK
  12. Manchester, NH
  13. Bismark, ND
  14. Spokane, WA
  15. Sioux Falls, SD
  16. Chapel Hill, NC
  17. Chattanooga, TN
  18. Colorado Springs, CO
  19. Portland, ME
  20. Greenville, SC
  21. Loveland, CO
  22. Amarillo, TX
  23. Ogden, UT
  24. Clarksville, TN

I’ve been in 6 out of the top 10, so I guess the list isn’t completely worthless, but in many ways it reminds me of one of those career placement tests that I took in high school. It told me that I was lousy at organizational skills, would average a ‘D’ in college accounting classes, and should consider a career in accountancy. It also claimed that there was no hope that I’d pass a college zoology class, but the rest of the sciences would be straight ‘A’s for me.

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