I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
PS – something that Chris recently explained to me: the US military
saves concealable bad news (missing soldiers, etc.) for times when
unconcealable bad news will overshadow it. Case in point: the front
page of CNN right now contains the large headline: “Daniel Pearl,
1963-2002” … but also contains the smaller headline, “A U.S. Army
MH-47 helicopter went down at sea in the Phillipines on Thursday.”
The State Department has an accurate
transcript of Bush’s speech in Japan Monday. “… for a
century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great
and enduring alliances of modern times.” Embarrassing as this
gaffe is (wasn’t Bush’s father shot down flying missions over
Japan?), it pales in comparison to the deeply unsettling revisionist history from the White House Press Secretary’s
Office. (“…for half a century now…”)
I’m telling Erin about the transparent aluminum thing.
Dan: … and it’s three times as strong as steel.
Erin: So we could have transparent cars?
Dan: Like Wonder Woman’s plane, yeah.
Erin: (quizzical look)
Dan: Yeah, it was invisible. You sometimes saw Wonder Woman,
visible, sitting in her invisible plane, zooming around. That’s how I
imagine transparent cars.
Erin: Ah. (beat) How did she find it?
Dan: What?
Erin: Her plane. If it’s invisible, you know? How did she
find it to get into it? These are the questions that nobody asks
for fifty years!
AP: Pearl is
dead.
In other AP headline news, apparently we’re going
steady with China. “Bush indicated that the two nations would begin
holding hands at the mall soon, following a successful outing at the movies.”
I know it was on slashdot not too long
ago, but this transparent
aluminum thing is cool. “Eine Platte … [ist] dreimal
härter als gehärteter Stahl.” Spass!
Dedicated to c&a: I thought it was over but she wants
me back.
I know she’s two-timing me with like 20 million other people, and I’d leave
her if I knew how, but she’s inside of me, under my skin. I want to be rid
of her, but I can’t find a moment’s peace until she tires of me, or I build
up an immunity to her.
Angi is bringing back bad memories
from my previous job at that company.