thane November 1st, 2008
My office is nearing completion. Yesterday I bought flooring. Cork snap together with a wool pad. Mmmmmm. Today was paint. Tonight I hope to put two coats on the ceiling. Once that is done, Tory and I will paint the walls. Then Joh and I do the trim. Some collection of people will then put down the floor. Unfortunately, I am off to Cupertino for the 10th thru the 14th, so I may not get to move in till the 15th or so. I am still hopefull that we can get it all done and I can start moving in by Thursday or Friday. Keep your fingers crossed.
thane October 26th, 2008
Tony didn’t quite get done on Saturday. Maybe Tuesday. Maybe not.
thane October 23rd, 2008
Got the word from Tony that he will finish up my office Saturday. Wool hooo!
Now we just have to find time to paint and set it up. It will be nice to finally be able to spread out.
thane October 22nd, 2008
Today Tory informed us that she has a boyfriend. More amusing than anything. Regardless, she pointed out that maybe someday he would marry this boy, Kai. Previously the had asserted thatnshe would marry her cousin Thallia, so I asked about that plan. “Maybe I will marry one of them, get a divorce, and marry the other.” I guess it is nice she has a plan.
thane October 21st, 2008
These days seem to be a continuous struggle to find the time I need to get my stuff done. There is work, where I am juggling deadlines for multiple projects. Then there is class, where I have let myself fall behind on my reading. Will I ever catch up? Somehow, I doubt it. Then there is the house work, time with the kids, cooking, and my relationship win my wife. It’s times like these when working from home is not really a plus. *sigh*
thane October 21st, 2008
Well, it finally happened. I got an iPhone. Maybe this will get me post more frequently. Probably there will just be a burst of short posts followed by total silence. You should be used to that by now.
thane April 10th, 2008
When I was interviewing at Apple, people would often ask me what I would do when I started. What would I fix or make better. My answer was something along the line of “The first thing I would probably do is make sure all the sample code worked. Did you know that the HID Explorer sample project doesn’t even compile?” Thus, it should be little surprise that the HID Explorer has been updated! What the hell am I going to do now?
thane April 4th, 2008
My world has changed. It will never go back to the way it was before. As a means of explanation, I need to give you some background.
Half a year ago or so, Wacom was experiencing some growing pains. This took the form of planning a new building where everyone involved in the planning was getting very irritated with the totally opaque and nonsensical process. Multiple people in Engineering were talking about leaving (almost half the department) at various times, and others were talking about collective bargaining. I got fed up and started putting out feelers and digging around for a new job. On 12/4/2007 I got a bite from a friend at Apple, asking if I was still looking. I sent him my resume, along with that of a friend, noting that neither of us was interested in moving. On 1/18 his old boss called me and decided I was a good candidate for the job. 2/1 I had two phone interviews with engineers. 2/18 I took a trip to Cupertino where I interviewed with nine different people in half a day. 3/7 was another day trip to California where I interviewed with five more people. At this point I have talked with almost everyone I could talk to in ‘my’ management chain, and with surrounding groups that I would have to interface with.
On 3/25, 113 days in and 17 interviewers later, they offered me a job working from my own home. As of 4/21, I will be an Apple employe, an I/O Kit Kernel Engineer. I will have to spend a lot of the next 6 months in California, trying to develop the network that will allow me to succeed at the job. Even doing that, my success is not guaranteed. This is going to be the hardest and most challenging job I have ever taken, from a professional standpoint, from a personal standpoint, and from a family standpoint. It is also one of the most exciting, most thrilling jobs I can imagine having. When I started looking, low those many months ago, I came up with a list of things the perfect job would have. This has all of them. It is even more perfect than the job I had imagined. It is like a dream.
People, if this is a dream, don’t wake me. I will kick your ass.
thane March 28th, 2008
Thanks to Senator Clinton, we now know that, not only was Senator Obama a professor, he was offered a tenure track position multiple times.
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
Thank you, Ms. Clinton, for clarifying that.
thane February 7th, 2008
Apologies to everyone about not posting. I have had some stuff going on that I don’t want to blog about which is pretty much occupying my entire brain.