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+.
Joss eulogizes
Firefly on a message board. Well, it’s not exactly a
eulogy, since Fox will allow him to shop the show around to other
networks. But that doesn’t save the jobs of the crew: “Production will
halt, they’ll need to find new jobs. You can’t imagine how that feels.
How much they brought to the table, how hard and well they worked. And
their Christmas bonus is this.”
The real-time
traffic map is almost entirely covered with blinking blue
icons (signifying accidents). Thanks, El Niño. (I’m not complaining
about the rain so much as the drivers who don’t know how to deal with
it.)
Another article on the Firefly
cancellation: “But let’s not forget the famous story of Cheers. Ranked
75th in a list of 75 shows, it by all logic should have been cancelled.
NBC didn’t have the money to make a new set for a replacement show, so
they let it run for another year out of pure necessity.”