It's cat-friendly in that we're more cat-people than dog-people, but nobody has yet brought their cat in to work. That may change the next time Rachel and I get a box of kittens to foster though. We may bring in the kiddie (err, kitty) playpen and bring the little ones to work to help socialize them. :-) - Kevin Fox
OMG! You gotta let me "help out" when you guys bring kittens to FFGWH. Me cuddle them long time. - April Buchheit
Like April's comment! I'm hoping for 2 or 3 foster kittens this month, but we shall see! - Rachel L Fisher
I would be MORE than happy to help you socialize your kitties :) I'd even take a day off work just to be at the FF offices that day. P.S. - FF t-shirts rock as cat beds. - Jeanette Martinez
(translated by Google: "The wiki Ayeyiieeyeeyeeyeeyeeyeeyeeyeeye بگيره growth. Inna چقدر خوشگلن Warmerdam گربهها" and "Electronics: The Ayeyiieyeeyeeyeeyeeye". I'm guessing that's not quite right.) - ⓞnor
"Who can imagine New York City without the Mission burrito? Like the Yankees, the Brooklyn Bridge or the bagel, the oversize burritos have become a New York institution. And yet it wasn’t long ago that it was impossible to find a good burrito of any kind in the city. As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our hot El Farolito burrito arrives in the lunchroom with its satisfying pneumatic hiss." - Tudor Bosman
Reminds me of the now defunct Golden Gate Tunnel. I still have my permit in one of my Google Stuff boxes. - Kevin Fox
Cool, tunnels rule. They are so, well, underneath it all. - Mike Reynolds
"Convincing skeptical businessmen to buy into the plan proved more of a challenge - it took six months to persuade suspicious taqueria owners to switch to a salsa with lower magnetic permittivity." :) I know what I'm having for lunch... - Paul Buchheit
Gore Verbinski's next film will take us back to Davy Jones' locker -- but this time, into the undersea world of BioShock.
The Pirates of the Caribbean director has been tapped to direct and produce a film based on the critically acclaimed world of the Xbox 360 game for Universal, Variety reports. - Tudor Bosman
BioShock rocked. (if you disagree, then, well, you're wrong) It would make a great setting for a movie. - Tudor Bosman
bioshock was pretty good but not as good as systemshock2 - even though bioshock had 10x better graphics, it still didnt achieve the same spooky/crazy atmosphere - and it didnt have psyonic monkeys roaming the hallways :P - bob
"Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories — like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection — to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation.
It’s among the statistics that the Federal Reserve considered when it cut interest rates on Wednesday. The categories are weighted according to an estimate of what the average American spends" - Tudor Bosman
For this contest, the goal is to create fear. Not just any fear, but a fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea. There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely made up. And there are lots of products out there that provide security against those risks.
Your job is to invent one. - Tudor Bosman
Wow! I see you worked 5 years at Oracle. I couldn't even last 2 years (I was in Sales, though - I learned firsthand what the term "soulless and evil" really meant). - April Buchheit
working in eng at Oracle would hopefully be more fulfilling than working in sales. but even if it was worse, I wouldn't mind having that career path. :) Congrats. - David Vasileff
April: Every time I hear that someone has a sales job, I think of Glengarry Glen Ross, and I weep. Was it that bad? (Of course, I know that not all sales jobs are the same, but that movie stayed with me.) - Tudor Bosman
April, can you talk more about "soulless and evil"? This interests me. Is it the people or the quota system? - Ginger Makela
It was one of the most iconic and heart-stopping movie images of 2003: the Columbia Space Shuttle ignited, burning and crashing to earth in fragments. Now, amazingly, data from a hard drive recovered from the fragments has been used to complete a physics experiment - CXV-2 - that took place on the doomed Shuttle mission. - Tudor Bosman
I'm intrigued you read Blocks and Files, Tudor. It's a very new site. How did you find it? - Louis Gray
I don't read it regularly; I found this particular article via Jamie Zawinski's blog. - Tudor Bosman
Oh no, you've taken "embarrassing" to mean something completely different. Embarrassing books for Tudor would be his copy of Microwave Cooking for One or the Bestiary of Middle-Earth... oh wait, that one is mine... - Jeanette Martinez
Tudor, wait, where does the weird part come in? (ahem, ⓞnor, you're not allowed to answer) - j1m
It's unusual to use Eclipse for non-Java work, though theoretically it supports many languages. And I keep forgetting that FF uses Java, at least for indexing with Lucene (I think?). - ⓞnor
(via Consumerist) "Research shows that routine self-examination does no good in terms of breast cancer outcomes because it isn't sensitive enough to detect important lumps. In fact, it can actually cause harm [...] [b]y subjecting self-examiners to increased levels of anxiety. [...] There is an exact parallel with routine self-examination of testicles in males - another discredited activity that continues to receive publicity because it sounds like a good idea." - Tudor Bosman
