Video: Me at work

This pretty much sums up my average day at work.

(Via BoingBoing)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

For all my Engineering friends out there, here’s a link from Boing Boing to make your Valentine’s Day better no matter what your situation is…

So a few days ago, I was on the phone, whining to my dad about throwing a Fifth Annual F—— Valentine’s Day party and trying to figure out my personal life. My dad listened thoughtfully, and then began explaining to me what I was doing wrong. The problem, he said, is that I date girls serially.

Let’s let V be potential difference between dating girls and doing something productive, I be current of love, and R be resistance to current flow. The problem with serial dating is the same as with serial circuits. If resistance starts to increase, you’re stuck: because V = IR, and R is increasing, I must decrease to hold the equality. Worse still, because P = IV, you’re just not going to have as much power with the increased resistance. Note on the above diagram that current is a lousy 214 mA, and we’re only able to get 1.93 “jewels” from our relationships. This is even worse than it seems: because there’s only one path—through all relationships—you’ll end up spending the majority of your energy on the relationship with the greatest resistance, which is exactly the opposite of what you want to do.

Worst of all, if (horror of horrors) you actually blow out one of your relationships, all current stops until you can manually patch things up. Your love life will be at least momentarily in ruins.

I read the full article and it’s pretty great. Here’s the link:
http://www.bitquabit.com/2007/02/14/smart-guys-date-in-parallel/

Sorry for the posting hiatus! More to follow soon, I promise.

Have a great day folks

This just keeps getting better

Check it out, now even “wonderfully dorky” videos travel at the speed of light

Since my last post, the video has been mentioned in a UK tech newspaper:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2141492/microsoft-interns-say-goodbye

And it’s been anonymously posted to iFilm, getting over 20,000 hits and becoming the site’s most popular “Feat of Stupidity”. Hmm…
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2677918

Oh – and if you’ve already seen the video, see it again. After the first 10,000 hits, we figured we should fix up the audio, and so now you get to hear us sing too.

Okay okay, so I should use the word “fix” lightly

(Scroll down 2 posts if you have no idea what I’m talking about)

Wow

Don’t get me wrong, thank so much to everyone for the birthday wishes! Being so far it means so much. But I’m sorry, my favourite card so far is a really obvious choice…

Miss English Lady, you rock

I’m a star

From: Intern Coordinator
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:27 PM
To: Intern Mentors
Subject: 2005 Intern Music Video

I apologize for the wide distribution, but for the 2nd year in a row, a few of our interns have made a music video with MS specific lyrics and I thought some of you might get a kick out of seeing it. I would highly recommend reading the lyrics as the sound quality is rough and I also recommend saving it to your desktop for better/easier viewing. This is something the interns put together completely on their own with no help or prodding from the intern program.

Enjoy!
Caroline

Turn up your speakers. Download the file. And say bye bye bye to any decent opinion you held of me:
http://internz.org/Video2005/

I recommend the 63 meg version

Pretty in pink

From: Rohit Sharma
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:31 AM
To: Office Trustworthy Computing PM Team
Subject: Prank victim

Morning everyone,

Just in case you walk by my office today and wonder why it’s looking more pink than usual, I’ve been pranked by some of my buddies in 36. Long story short, after the OSS picnic I tossed my tie-dye shirt in the laundry with the rest of my clothes, and now the results are on display.

I’ll let you know how I get em back!

Have a good day,
Rohit

More. Random. Stuff.

If y’all thought the last post was nerdy (and especially YOU!) then you’re not gonna like this one either.

It’s just that I’m home for dinner, chomping down on a pita so I can get back to the lab for some Numerical Methods goodness, when in between my regular nonsensical web-surfing distractions like beard competitions and recipes for beer soup, I see a great post up by Robert Scoble.

Scoble is a tech evangelist over at Microsoft, who’s blog I randomly stumbled upon and now find myself keeping up with everyday. I’ll tell you properly sometime why I’m working at Msft this summer, but the short story is: because of people like Robert. People who look past stupid business politics, love the industry, and have a genuine interest in findings ways for tech to make things better for all of us. Right on.

Another wow

Inspired by Estelle’s last post, I had to share this gem that Rob passed on to me. Apparently, the guys (and gals) behind Halo know how to throw a karoke party

Here’s the article, and here’s the video. You’ll need Quicktime (and a sense of humour as bad as mine).