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+.
Well, uh, sad!
I got to the end of both Cowboy Bebop and Blue Gender
today. I mean, the end end. I really got hooked on these
shows because of their stories, and, well, a good story has a good
ending. The best stories have great endings, and the greatest endings
are usually pretty damn final.
And two of those are a lot for one day.
So, like I said. Sad.
I learned a new word today. shambolic!
Thanks, Angle Grinder Man!
Overheard at the office: “biggest BS I ever saw was when I was
overseeing EA’s datacenter moves late last year…. moved into the new
datacenter and they did an audit of what they still needed and all..
they ended up with a stack of like 20 Sun E250s. and for some reason
their accounting regs or whatnot required them to crush them as
opposed to letting me have one, even if I paid for it…”
Oh, happy day: Probabilities
in the Game of Monopoly®. “I first wrote a C program that
simulates a single person rolling the dice and moving around the board a
great number of times. It included all of the rules for going to jail
and the Chance and Community Chest cards. Although this gave good
aproximate answers, I decided that I wanted to write another program
that would find the exact probabilities using a Markov
matrix…”
Let
It Be…Naked to be released in November. “Get
Back” was to have been the Beatles’ back-to-basics album in 1969,
but was instead released as heavily-produced “Let It Be”
… and then the Beatles broke up.
Do you think U2 would have suffered the same fate if they hadn’t
succeeded in creating “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”
— their own “back to basics” album — in 2000?
Zen koan of the day, courtesy dpeck:
Your instincts are good; you should follow them.
I just heard the construction workers next door stealing water from the
spigot at the side of our house. I threw on my shoes and ran out there,
but the guy with the bucket (or whatever) was nowhere to be found.
There was a telltale drop of water drooling from the end of the faucet,
however, so I turned to the nearest worker and said, “Did someone just
take water from here?”
I might as well have said it in Japanese.