What’s with the black-eyed pea thing here in the South on New Year’s?
What’s with the black-eyed
pea thing here in the South on New Year’s?
I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
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What’s with the black-eyed
pea thing here in the South on New Year’s?
Jef Raskin’s Humane
Interface ideas have been turned into The Humane
Environment, a radically different document-processor and
programming environment. “You cannot make an interface better without
making it different (that’s obvious). If it’s a lot better, it will be
a
lot different.”
“Iraq says that after a month of
‘intrusive, extensive and sometimes aggressive’ inspections, the United
Nations has found no evidence that Baghdad has weapons of mass
destruction.”
Christmas Eve day in Houston.
Getting here was a bit of an ordeal. A heart attack on our SFO→DEN
flight forced us to make a stop in Grand Junction, delaying our eventual
Denver arrival by two hours. Our connecting flight having long
since departed, Erin and I would wait in the various lounges,
restauraunts, and window sills of the Denver International Airport for
the next nine hours and the second of two Houston flights that day.
We were finally home around midnight, having stepped out our front door
eighteen hours beforehand.
Off to Houston.
“Don’t it always seem to go: that you don’t know what you got ’till
it’s gone.”
And the great bail-out to go see The Two Towers has officially
begun.