No one cares if you loiter in a suit.- I ruined a plastic baby spoon by accidentally dropping it down the garbage disposal.
- Alex understands how to open and close the doors to our bedroom and the gate to the kitchen (when it’s unlocked). He’s been doing this for a while, but I hadn’t realized how much skill and effort it takes him until I watched him trying to do it when he was tired.
- He now waves bye bye.
- We think he’s signed ‘milk’ to us without us signing it to him first.
- He mimics kissing noises, but doesn’t yet bonk your cheek when doing it as I’ve seen other babies do.
- Watching him when he sleeps, or more accurately, when he’s half asleep, is fascinating. Two of the weirder things he’s done that I’ve seen:
- He sits up. Lets out a cry. Falls over / face plants. Falls asleep. Mind you, he may have fallen asleep before face planting, it was hard to tell.
- He tends to sleep with his arms and legs curled under him and his butt up in the air. At some point he pushes with his feet so his butt is really high up in the air, lifts one foot as high as possible into the air, then flops down onto his side.
- For those of you planning weddings, you may want to check out Google’s new MyMaps feature. You can put markers and pictures onto the map. Great way for showing the geeks in your wedding party where the ceremony, reception, rehearsal, hotel are.
- I have one intriguing job opportunity to consider. A startup in stealth mode that’s so secretive it won’t tell me what I’m working on until I start working for them. I’m supposed to judge them based on my impression of the team / founders. I find it an interesting exercise in assessing risk in the absence of information. In other news, I think I have 5 solid opportunities in various stages of the pipeline. This is good. Though I like interviewing, and have had a bunch of interesting conversations with interviewers of late, I’m running low on energy. In other news, I self-dinged myself on one of my phone screens. The opportunity involved being the project manager for a multi-threaded system. Though I felt that I could easily BS my way through the multi-threading questions, I felt that I wouldn’t be able to do justice to the position. I told the interviewer as much, in almost as many words. I was disappointed when he didn’t outright say that the interview process was over. He said things like “I’ll talk it over with people here and see what the next step is.” I made it a point to stop wasting his time, and he still didn’t have the courtesy to wrap up everything there and then.
- I wrote a longer post about this earlier, but something glitched and I lost it. Oh well… synopsis: randomly found an all-you-can eat sushi place near my mom’s. $19.99 weekdays, $23.99 weekends. Dina and I ordered 28 pieces, 29 pieces, then 14 pieces. Additionally we ordered edamame, gyoza, yaki-tori, tempura, BBQ / fried squid, scallops, and oysters. The menu was confusing because they didn’t use Japanese words. I originally didn’t order the edamame because it was simply listed as ‘soy’. Their solution to prevent people from over-ordering? A $1 penalty per wasted piece.
Milestones, Interviewing, Brain Housecleaning
2007-04-07 21:54
So if you order too much, you have to pay not to eat?
Doug: Correct. I find it had the right effect on us. Not so much how much it was, but just the knowledge that I’d have to pay curtailed our ordering. I think it also saved us from upset stomachs.