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Oh Wow, Dr. Horrible is AWESOME!

Someone just pointed me to http://www.drhorrible.com , which is Joss Whedon’s newest epic. The first two acts are up on the web (the final act will go up on Saturday). They are spectacularly cool, especially to a musical nut.  I knew that Neil Patrick Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:34 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

BillG Memories, part 1…

I’m going to be out of town tomorrow, so I won’t be able to post this on Bill’s last full time day at Microsoft, but I wanted to post a couple of anecdotes about Bill. This one actually comes from Valorie, it was her first interaction with Bill…   Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

I don't know if I should be honored or ashamed :)

Yesterday, we had the weekly security contacts meeting for the WEX division. At those meetings, they sometimes give out awards for people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty. Much to my surprise, I won one of the awards! You can't read the Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 8:57 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

Live search thinks I'm who?

Live search added face recognition to their image search the other day (which is way cool). Someone decided to see what various bloggers looked like, so they tried searching for: "larry osterman" filter:face What shows up? I'll give you a hint, it isn't Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:54 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

My wife and I are SUCH geeks.

Once again, nothing technical, but massively geeky (and maybe a bit TMI, but I figure most of the people reading this are grownups). Last night, I was reading my email on my computer (which lives in our bedroom) when my daughter came in and asked "Where's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:02 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

I could get to like this "Internet" thing.

Last Thursday, when Daniel was at his music lesson, I got an email from a friend of ours. We have a vacation home in the San Juan Islands (just north west of Seattle), and he was visiting his place on the island and looked in on our house. He had noticed Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:15 PM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments

It was a dark and stormy last night

It was a dark and stormy night... The band of infiltrators crept into the deserted building. After checking to make sure that the authorities weren't present, they crept up to the sixth floor. At this point, they were committed, there was no going back. Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 11:24 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

Reorgalicious

Brian Valentine may get all his news from the Official Newspaper of the Exchange Windows division (no Brian, I haven't forgotten you abandoned us :)), but I get all my news from Slashdot :) Today, I learned, much to my surprise that I'd been re-orged Read More...
Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 10:48 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

Katamari 'R Filler

For Christmas, we got the kids a PS2, they've been having a great deal of fun with it. On Raymond ’s recommendation , I also got a copy of Katamari Damacy, which IS the most messed up video game ever. Daniel’s beaten it, I’m only about halfway through Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:39 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

The Clueless Manifesto

I don't usually echo other people's content, but I ran into this via Scoble : " The Clueless Manifesto " I'm not entirely sure why it struck a chord, but it did. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 11:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

So apparently there's a "football" game going on this weekend?

I thought we were done with football this year, but apparently not :) Actually, this Superbowl is somewhat problematic for me. I grew up in Albany, NY, which has absolutely no professional sports teams at all. So I never really understood the whole "fandom" Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 9:46 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

Heard over the weekend...

We were chatting with friends about the interview with Tahrmina Martely on APM's Weekend America about her first experiences in the US (listen to it here (sorry, Real Media only :()) Tahrmina tells the story about when she first came to the US as a high Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

Da Goat Horns

Raymond's post the other day about a giant inflatable bunny that showed up in his office finally prompted me to get off my duff and borrow a scanner from the PM in my group so I could scan in this picture: The scan's pretty horrible, but you get the idea Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:04 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments

A co-worker just forwarded this...

Apparently it was on Conan last night, but... I normally don't like Triumph the comic insult dog, but for some reason, I thought that this was hysterical (maybe because I got too little sleep last night or something, I don't know). Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:38 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

Cool illusion found on Michael Gartenberg's blog

Michael Gartenberg pointed out this cool illusion. It's a circle of pink dots with a rotating highlight. If you stare at it long enough, the pink highlight turns green, and if you keep on looking at it, the circle of pink dots disappears. Very, very freaky Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 11:31 AM by LarryOsterman | 12 Comments
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