Saturday, Novembr 25, 2006
I have had an eventful weekend, but quite relaxing. It's the first 4-day weekend I've had since I started working.On Thursday I went to Caltech to spend Thanksgiving with Mary. I made some dressing for the Turkey, but I guess I was supposed to cover it before baking it in the oven, and it turned out rather crispy. Here are some pictures I took on the campus tour Mary gave. As you can see, we started out on the roofs, and then moved to the more mundane areas:
Then on Friday, I hit the stores with a guy from work. We got some good prices on some stuff, and avoided long lines simultaneously. However, apparently to get some of the stuff we had seen advertised, we would have had to be lining up outside the stores at 5 AM. Not my cup of tea.
One store we went to was a video game/movie shop, where I picked up some DVDs, and he got some games. We then spent the remainder of the day, about 9 hours, playing a Lord of the Rings game he got, which got us about 20% of the way through it!
Thursday, November 2, 2006
My company moved offices at the end of last week. I, along with most of the other engineers, had been working at an office in San Bernardino. Most of the managers and the hardware/lab engineers had been working at an office in Redlands. Now, both offices have come together into our own building at the Redlands airport, which you can see below. I was curious about the apparent logo in the lower right hand side, but having been informed by various people of the Mission Aviation Fellowship being based out of Redlands airport, I was quickly able to ascertain that this was indeed their logo. Apparently they were the previous occupiers of the building.
The facility is certainly quite nice, but it is also very large, and you have to walk a good ways to get anywhere inside it. In the previous office, the opposing corners were probably 40 or 50 feet apart. Now it's a few hundred. Oh, well.
The new office also has wireless internet access, where the old one didn't. So I have begun taking my laptop to work, plugging it into the monitor I have there, and then logging into my computer there over the network, so that I can control both monitors from my single laptop. That way, although the actual software I'm developing runs only on Windows, I can still use my Macintosh code editors; and having two screens is definitely a major advantage when you have to switch between editing code and running the compiled product, as well as looking at documentation. The windows get crowded pretty quickly on a single screen!
