Category — Work

John: Why are you taking the 10th off? A Manny Day?

Me: No Blizzcon. Blizzard’s convention. I bought tickets

John and Peter: *Weird Nod and Look*

Me: *Sigh*

You know you are nerdy when your CTO thinks you’re a nerd.

WINNAR!

Today I went to a lecture given by Edward Tufte thanks to John. The lecture was in Universal City and to my surprise the commute wasn’t bad. I even got to the Hilton before Eric did and he lives closer. w00t.

I seriously didn’t know what to expect, I did some research on the topic of Presenting Data and Information from his website. So I went in really ignorant. Go figure right? When the lecture started I thought his message was decent then it got really good. To the point I was actually enjoying myself, at a lecture. Right? WTF? He made a lot of sense when presenting data to people; that it is good to have information that isn’t presented in a stacked form but should be presented in an open space form where it is accessible by the person you are presenting it to at any time. I was also impressed with his collection of books, especially two that he shared with us. One being Euclid’s book of Geometry (First English Translation) and the other being Galileo’s first book he ever wrote. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has the first Bible written.

We took a lunch break so Eric and I took the shuttle from the Hotel to City Walk. We had a quick lunch since we only had an hour and the shuttle was running slow. We rushed back to the lecture where it started to go down a bit in my opinion.

Tufte started to talk about computers and there was a lot of Apple propaganda I could go without and I think I differ from his views of technology when it comes to operating systems and applications. He concluded the lecture by showing us a video he shot at the sculpture garden near his home which was great.

I think the lecture was beneficial and I recommend it to people who have to present a lot of data to people. I think the message he conveys is important and comes in handy for project managers, sales engineers and financial folks. He goes to New York next and does the rest of the east coast but he comes back to California where he is speaking at San Francisco and San Jose.

I do not recommend this workshop however for slimy sales guys. They wouldn’t grasp the concept of pushing good content and data to their audience since they are low life POS and should punch themselves in the face.

So I brought in my Rush Hour game into work today and it was a blast, well with Eric and Brijesh.

I think Eric had too much fun with it. That it drove him mad when he tried to achieve the rank of “Grand Master.”

Brijesh on the other hand had no problem with the puzzle. He seriously tore each puzzle task up.

Even Adam came over to our area and played with it for a bit but couldn’t complete the Grand Master task. QQ

In the end Eric got really carried away with it that he stayed a little later to finish another Grand Master Puzzle but was unsuccessful. SUCKA!!! I think I should bring in more puzzle games, they seem to be fun!

“Do u guys have a dolly? I don’t have a dolly. I have thirteen boxes for you downstairs.” - fedex guy

Way to fail…epically. This is going in my quote section. :D

Today at lunch we realized how much coleslaw sucks. It’s seriously the bastard child of the BBQ side dishes. I mean seriously, do you go out of your way to pick up coleslaw? It’s nasty, right Liz?

Friday - Napped all day then had dinner with Pic and Brandon at Fire Fly then met everyone up at Paris for drinking. Then it was over to New York New York for more drinking. Carrie and I got back to the room at around 4am, yet again.

Saturday - Slept all day then had lunch with Flaute, her hubby and her sister at the Grand Lux. Went back to the room and slept more. Woke up, had a crappy dinner at some place in the hotel then it was off to Pure at Ceasar’s Palace. Liz and her sister hooked everyone up for the club. THANKS LIZ! Drank more and danced. The dance floor was so crowded and hot I sweated the entire time on the dance floor. Carrie and I skipped out a bit early and hit up another bar in the casino. Got even more drunk then met up with Adam and headed on over to the Grand Lux cafe. Before we got to the club though I lost my cell phone. :( It was all good because it was found by a person named Carrie as well and was kind enough to call my Carrie to let us know she had the phone.

Sunday - Packed then met Carrie over at the Monte Carlo to pick up my phone. Headed to my parents house for dinner.

To sum it all up, Adam, Justin and I need a new liver. Also, DJ Q-bert is the l33tz0r.

Live from my Vegas suite! Carrie and I got here last night and had dinner with Pic and Brandon. Pic made chile chicken for us that was delicious. After met up with Adam and Justin at Planet Hollywood for the Xbiz party and it was pretty dead. It didn’t matter because Dj Q-bert was SPINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanted to throw my panties at him but I refrained. We got really drunk then ended up at Fat Burger where I ate a hamburger with a fried egg…love those. I was throwing french fries at Adam and Justin because I am an a-hole :).

Today was chill just hanging out and waiting for the rest of the people come in. Seriously, Dj Q-bert was off the hinges fo shinges!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My weekend really started Thursday. My company made their sales goals thanks to last minute efforts of Adam and Sara. Great work guys! We were awarded with a BBQ at John’s house. We played foosball, soccer, ping pong, Rock Band and witnessed the longest croquet game evar. We had lots of fun and ate tons. John was an awesome host and I hope we get another party next month! :)

On Friday We BBQ’d at Gee’s house and we brought Andy with us since he was visiting. We had some good Korean BBQ and great beer. Carrie, Andy and I set up Rock Band after we had our first plate and we were made fun of by Stu, Gee and Dennis. Twenty minutes later we asked if they wanted to play so they gave it a shot and they were addicted. We played Rock Band for seven hours straight, seriously! Well, I took an hour nap and breaks to eat more. All and in all it was a great time at Gee’s.

Saturday, Carrie, Andy and me went to Del Amo Mall to eat at BJ’s. The service was terrible and Andy had the biggest Chillicheese Burger evar. I picked up Orange Box for the Xbox and new sun glasses since I lost my last pair in Chicago. Sigh. Later on that night we went out for Soju at Zip’s and Adam joined us. Very fun! My girlfriend got plastered and started talking mess to Adam. Very entertaining. We came back to my apartment for some Raving Rabbids 2 and drank more beer.

Today, I worked on post production for some photos. Got those done and I am probably going to lounge around for the day. Hopefully get my lazy ass up for a haircut. Probably not though. I hope you had a great 4th yourself.

Sara: i’m watching porn, dont’ bother me

Sara: page 11 in our adult site directory has some good ones. boob filter in particular. that and advanced masturbation.

The company next door to us have 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 employees and they all use the bathrooms and elevators all the time. It sucks because we have one bathroom on this floor since the common bathroom hasn’t been built yet. ANNOYING!

/shakesfist!