Friends

Laureen went to buy a MacBook at her local Apple Store. When I hand him a stack of bills, he blinks. Blinks! And says “I can’t take that. You’ll have to go to the back, where they have a cash drawer.” I am not sure why he didn’t take it back to the cash drawer…

There are lots (thousands) of layoffs happening today, at Sun, IBM, and Microsoft, and just I realized that I only have work email addresses for many of my friends and blog readers. If you’ve been affected by this, please add a comment here (I’ll see your email address, but others won’t) and remember to update…

Here’s the full announcement. Please forward to anyone that you think might be interested. Gene Saunders, one of the longest serving members of the Sun Microsystems family, passed away unexpectedly on September 19th. Gene had many friends and colleagues at Sun, in the United States and around the World. He was also in constant contact…

I just learned that my old friend, Sun colleague, and fellow SecularLiberalGeek Gene Saunders died last week. (I just got off the phone from speaking with his friend Judy.) I’m going to miss his constant emails on politics, technology, godlessness, and Texas. More anon. UPDATE: Links to Gene’s blog and his photos, courtesy Alec. UPDATE:…

I’ve uploaded the photos from Saturday (San Francisco Bay) and Sunday (Jack London Square and Alameda). Steve has blogged how we all tried our hands at slot-car racing after lunch on Sunday. It must be 40 years since I last handled a slot car controller, but it all came back surprisingly quickly. (Maybe here in…

I’m just about to board my flight home from SFO to SEA. I got to the airport early, added myself to the standby list for an earlier flight, and it came up trumps – window seat, exit row. Sweet. I had a great weekend, took lots of photos, saw lots of friends, and made some…

On Saturday I headed up to Victoria, BC for a day trip to visit some good friends. The weather forecast was good, but as the Victoria Clipper IV pulled away from Seattle’s Pier 69 all we could see was fog. Thick, thick, fog. We made our way up Puget Sound and into the Strait of…

Steve‘s move to Songbird is more than just a change of job. First, he’s become a Mac user! And second, he’s said goodbye to traffic jams on 880 and the Bay bridges: But damn if the commute to SF isn’t a helluva lot nicer (and a lot more fun…. riding a skateboard is orders of…

Rick asks “Ever wonder what a ton and half of chocolate looks like?” Mmmm. — (I’ve known Rick since he joined my team to work on the 386i at Sun. Hiring him was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done.)

One of my best friends, Steve Lau, is making the second major move of the year. (The first was getting married – what a great party that was!) I’m leaving Sun. It’s been a gut-wrenching decision, but I got an offer to join a startup in SF that was just too interesting and exciting to…