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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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Archive for September 16th, 2003

Spaced Penguin:

September 16th, 2003


Spaced
Penguin
: Chromatron
meets the
n-Body Problem
.

fig. 1.

September 16th, 2003

fig. 1 Life imitates art imitating life. (more)

Rice (and WRC) alumnus Zach Allison gets a nod in next month’s Wired mag writeup of BigChampagne, the “mistress” of music studios looking to use…

September 16th, 2003


Rice (and WRC) alumnus Zach Allison gets a
nod in next month’s Wired
mag writeup
of BigChampagne, the
“mistress” of music studios looking to use filesharing as an
unprecedented trend tool.

Slashdot has posted a front-page story on the new t-shirts, on sale now.

September 16th, 2003

Slashdot has posted a front-page story on the new
t-shirts, on sale now
. (Linkage: dsandler.org coverage, more
about my design, all
contest winners
.)

At last, when a particularly pained “wwuuuu-AOOW?” emits from the kitchen, you can’t take it anymore and you click on the light.

September 16th, 2003

At last, when a particularly pained “wwuuuu-AOOW?” emits from the
kitchen, you can’t take it anymore and you click on the light. And you
see…nothing. You see a cat, or possibly cats, but you don’t see them
doing anything, oh no. They just stand there, cats of the damned, trying
to pretend they’re waiting for a bus.

Related to recent cat post: life in a two-cat
household
.

I am unable to account for why Emmaline has decided that she must noisily scratch at every box in my office.

September 16th, 2003


I am unable to account for why Emmaline has decided that she must
noisily scratch at every box in my office. She seems determined to open
each one, either by lifting a lid, slicing open a flap, or cutting along
a seam. Perhaps these Cat Laws can help me
make sense of her behavior.

More coverage of the VeriSign domain fiasco:

September 16th, 2003


More coverage of the VeriSign domain
fiasco:
Slava
K.
, Register.
Also it looks like the machine that VeriSign has put up to handle all
these mistyped requests has either buckled under the load, or has been
attacked and is offline.

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