Hm, it’s been a busy couple o’ months. Post-home-purchase, I’ve been occupied with work, as we ramp up additional engineers, projects, and ambitions for this new year.
The experience of working for a real startup – to be more precise, a startup still in its infancy – has been enlightening, though not without stress and mental fatigue. My previous stints at Factset and Tagged were substantially different; these companies were well-established and enjoyed maturity in engineers and processes, something that I find myself in the midst of shaping at LOLapps.
Netbooks were cute, back in 2007. When Asus introduced the Linux-running, low-powered, inexpensive and plasticky EeePC, it was more of a hobbyist item, for the curious few looking to make a challenge of working with limited hardware.
Then everybody started to put work – and play – online, and the browser became the most important application on a computer. Computing’s gone retro; our computers have become dumb terminals again, relying on the remote server to do the work and store the data.
Then the financial crisis hit, and it’s no longer trendy to blow $1500 on a new computer when $500 would do.
Just one more picture set, this time of Jeremy’s and Pris’s housewarming party last weekend, complete with pot luck, Trivial Pursuit, Rock Band, drunk Eric, and spotty smile detection.
I think the entire smile auto-shot thing is more useful as an excuse to get people to smile, moreso than a tool for great shots (as the photographic evidence can attest). Also, my round face confuses the hell out of the sensor.
Yay, another new toy to play with. My job was kind enough to give us all very nice – belated – presents yesterday. So now I have a new camera to play with, the touch-screen, fingerprint-happy Sony DSC-T700.
And here I was thinking that my 2-year-old Canon SD630 was advanced; this one has 10 megapixels to work with, scene-sensing auto-config, super-macro mode, facial and smile recognition, anti-motion blur, and something about taking a second picture if it sees an eye blink.
So basically, it strives to live up to its point-and-shoot moniker. Judge for yourself.
My kitchen has been awfully lonely and unused the past few months. My culinary skills – lack thereof – have kept it nice and clean, random tea bags and snacks aside.
So it was time to properly christen the stove, countertops, and the new pots-and-pans set Sui got me for Christmas.
With what would be my signature dish, had I the prowess to make more than one dish; the masterful fingerpainting of a preschooler, if you will.
That would be salmon steak, Chinese bok choy, rice, and Taiwanese milk tea. Dishes and table courtesy of my condo’s interior designer. =) A few more pictures here.
Naming yourself an oxymoron is a cute way to generate a catchphrase. It happens to work a lot better for an actual cute game than a has-been gambling town.
Sui and I happened upon the latter sometime last week (and we beat the former this week) when we went back to the snowy slopes to make another run at winter sporting. We both started anew with snowboarding last year, and this year Sui wanted give skiing a chance ().
She pretty much gave up after 2 hours of floundering with four waxy, slippery snow sticks.