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*The title of this post should be read in the same fashion a human peasant in Warcraft 3 would say it.

So yesterday, I received an IM from my boss telling me my demo I showed her the previous day was required in a last-minute meeting. When I asked when, I was told “very soon” and to “go to Walnut Creek asap.” So… I quickly packed up my laptop and my development board along with all the niftly little add-ons (keypad, QVGA, VGA display, etc.) and rushed on over to the meeting room.

Apparently, we were having a “first encounter” type meeting with a $3 billion revenue company. It was pretty cool to see the “business-types” go at it with introductions as well as sly marketing maneuvers on both fronts. I don’t think that’s something I would like to do, but it’s certainly needed and cool to watch people who are good at it. I’m also not quite sure if this is something you gain from business school… seems like a lot of this stuff is something you’re either good at or you’re not (though, if you’re good at it, business school may give you nice practice ;).

Anyways, the meeting ended with my demo and the potential customers saying “that was a good demo.” shrug

Today, Olivia, Sam, Van and I went to volunteer at the Freescale donation center. We piled up lots of bedding onto crates and shrink wrapped them. Woo woo.

Here are some non-related pics:

Nancy making me dance with her:

My opinion on the matter:

hehe, j/k =) Very flattering picture of Kathy eating some dog poo:

Kathy, not too happy with me:

Sam, very content with himself:

Sam’s butt:

Finally, burrito Josh:

That’s all, folks! =)

Happy Birthday, Nathan! Here’re pics:

Man, I love my flash! Makes the lighting so nice. =) More in my gallery.

Oh yeah, obligatory bad Nancy picture… gotta get my revenge somehow for all the abuse. ;)

=)

I hate drama. Let the “fun” begin…

This is Nibbler, currently a LAMP box (plus a CVS server) and residing at 192.168.123.10 on the most awesome of LANs (ours ;).

Woowooooo! May the hobby code development begin!

On a related note, I reinstalled Bunkey on Nibbler and it works suprisingly well… though I’m not sure how some of the stuff gets updated, haha. Probably the only person who even knows what Bunkey is is Andrew, so if this doesn’t make any sense, ignore it. =P

I suppose it’s my turn to post some Denny’s pics…

Badabum!

Some pics from… whenever we all ditched Kathy and went to IHOP. We should do it again sometime, was fun. =) Male bonding ftw, lol.

In that pic above, you can see indians behind Nathan. They made us laugh and Viraj shook his head and muttered “indians…”

So I was looking at all the video blogs at Blue Tights and now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside and tears of joy want to come streaming out of my face.

Thank you, Bryan Singer, thank you.

Olivia gave me a ducky… and I took a picture of it with my new flash (Sigma EF-500 DG SUPER!!!). Yeah, I felt like the “super” required the exclamation points…

Ducky, mouse, and Kirby: