Monthly Archives: April 2006

I Work With A Bunch Of Smart-Asses

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Yesterday I left work early because I wasn’t feeling well. I sent out this email:

I’m heading home early – something I ate isn’t agreeing with me.

One of my coworkers responded with this:

Scott, “I think the French are a sophisticated culture.”
Sandwich, “You are wrong. The French degrade the very foundations of democracy the modern world is striving to achieve.”
Scott, “That seems like a very obtuse statement.”
Sandwich, “Think what you want, traitor.”
Drink, “No wait, I think Scott has a valid point.”

I’ve never felt more at home at a company in my life.

My Desk at Pop Art

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My desk at Pop Art

Now that I’ve finally got my work setup all hooked up and working, I figured I should post a photo or two for anyone interested. Just click on the photo above to go to the popart folder in my photo gallery.

On my desk are two Dell LCD monitors, one of which is hooked up to a new Dell, and the other is hooked up to the mac mini you can see on the desk between the two monitors. There’s only one keyboard and mouse on the desk, hooked up to the mac, and I’m controlling the PC using a program called Synergy, which treats my mac/pc setup as a dual-monitor system. I’ve got some new books that I’m working my way through. Several are by web standards guys like Dan Cedarholm, but one of them is Beginning ASP.NET 2.0, which my boss is encouraging me to learn. There are only two toy robots on my desk – I’m waiting until we move to the new office space in a few months to bring in the rest of them.

Directly behind my desk is my department manager, and to my left are my coworkers in the programming department. Further behind me, on the other side of my boss’s desk is the design team’s area. Sitting directly in front of me is the company president, which would be really nerve-wracking if he wasn’t A) really nice, and B) frequently in meetings or on the phone.

No Mac OS X For PCs

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Would it be exciting if Steve Jobs were to stand up at his next keynote address and say, “We’ve decided to license Mac OS X to any computer maker that wants it, and our goal is to put Microsoft out business”? Most definitely. But it’d be exciting in the way that it’s always exciting to watch someone else do something reckless and risky.

In an article on Daring Fireball titled “Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend,” John Gruber discusses the reasons why you won’t be able to go buy a copy of Mac OS X for your PC anytime soon.