Icy Streets and Sidewalks

I slipped several times during my walk to work on the ice in the streets and sidewalks this morning.  The weather has “colded over” in Bellevue.

It’s time to dust off the tire chains and tune up the ski gear.

Reddit

 

 

One of my kids introduced me to this awesome time wasting web site with great content, comments, and many funny, clever, interesting links.

Here is a video of how to make a hand grenade out of materials you can easily buy after you clear TSA security at the airport.

 

Proof that fonts matter, even if you are a minimalist who prefers lots of white space and text.

 

 

 

 

Can you say, “Pangolin?”  It’s a mammal.

 

Raptor, Flanker

Skype hits bottom, digs

Since we are hiring in Seattle, I spend a lot of time in remote interviews with candidates.  We frequently use collabedit with the plain old telephone system (POTS) since almost everyone has a web browser and a phone.  However some of the candidates prefer skype so that we can see each other by video.  Skype used to have a free “Screen sharing” feature where the interviewer could watch the candidate’s screen as she coded up solutions, used her integrated  development environment (IDE) editor, and looked stuff up on the web to solve coding problems.  Now, however, not only has the skype quality of service (QOS) gone down but the formerly-free features all cost money.  Yuck.

The evil search giant (ESG) has added document and screen sharing to their free “Hangouts” video conferencing service, the question is:  why would anyone want to use skype anymore?

 

Hangouts runs on all devices, has better ‘net, more features, and is completely free.  Services offered by the ESG are nefarious, intrusive, creepy, and the worst services in the world, except for all of the alternatives.

Weekend Update 11/4/2013

Friday 11/1 at work included an interesting all hands-meeting followed by a fun event I organize for the first Friday of the month, 4pm – 6pm. 

Dipping vegetables, Humus, pita chips, bagels, dips, beer samplers, energy drink samplers

Pot Luck Shabbat Dinner, Friday Night Lights

Our weekend kicked off with a fun fifth grade Sunday School pot luck dinner with more great food and fun people.  Then it was football at Bellevue High, watching Yofi’s team crush their opponent, Mercer Island 49-7.  Yofi Scored:

 

 

Saturday morning Eitana had an early morning soccer game

And it was also the “Kids’ Workshop” at Home Depot (first Saturday of the month:

She built a cool model boat.  On Sunday, there was Sunday school and Bellevue had very-high winds (70 Km/hr), which shook many leaves and twigs down and caused power outages for 100,000 people in the Puget Sound region.  We were lucky and had no flickers.

 

We had planned to see a Theatre play in which a friend of mine is starring but Eitana brought home a friend from Sunday school, so we watched NFL and ate bad food instead.

Adinah was home doing laundry for a short time and it was great to see her.