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If you live in the US, don’t forget to vote today

It’s a really big deal, regardless of your political persuasion.   Already the MSFT internal mailing lists have been filled with people asking “how long are the lines at my polling place”.  The good news is that the times appear to be pretty Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:26 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 4 (and finale)

Ok, the PDC’s finally over and I’ve had a chance to decompress a bit.  So here’s my day 4 report, only a few days late :). I got up at 6:15, finished packing and schlepped my stuff to the convention center for my tech check at 7:40.   At the Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 3

I got finished late yesterday, so sorry this post is coming so late. Yesterday was yet another blast.  I got up, had a “real” breakfast in the hotel buffet (I’m not sure it was actually better than the breakfast at the PDC though :().  Then Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:11 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day Two

Wow, it’s midnight on day two. What a day. I started the day at the Win7 keynote. It was amazing how the product was received by our customers – I’m really gratified that people seemed to like what they saw. You know you’re in a group of geeks when the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:28 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 1

Wow, today’s been a long day. For whatever reason, I woke up at 4 AM and wasn’t able to get back to sleep :(. On the other hand, I did get this cool picture from outside my window: When I got to the convention center I discovered that they were right Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 9:02 PM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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See you in LA in October!

I just got word that the talk we’d proposed for the PDC in October was approved, so I’m going to La-La-Land next month for a couple of days.   The contents of my talk have not yet been disclosed, so I can’t talk about what I’m talking about at the Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments
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I'm So Excited!

'nuf said.     I know it's bragging, but I'm sorry - I really couldn't resist.  It's been a very long time. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:33 PM by LarryOsterman | 34 Comments
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Go see Shrek the Musical. Right now!

We just got back home from seeing Shrek the Musical which is currently in try-outs at the Fifth Avenue Theatre   here in Seattle .   This show's going to be BIG when it hits Broadway.  I'm talking Hairspray big. It's one of the funniest Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:12 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments
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Remembering Aaron Reynolds

Last Saturday I received an email from Tandy Trower, a long time Microsoft employee letting me know that Aaron Reynolds had unexpectedly passed away .  It threw me for a loop, Aaron isn’t that much older than I am and I'm not used to hearing about Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:48 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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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

In which Larry goes back to college for the first time in over 20 years.

Last weekend we dropped Daniel off at Carnegie-Mellon for summer school (the CMU drama school’s pre-college musical theater program).  It was essentially the first time I’d gone back to CMU since I graduated (we visited for a couple of hours back Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:15 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments
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BillG Memories, Part 2

Not surprisingly, as a peon, I don’t get to interact with Bill very often, so my few interactions are almost by definition memorable. I’ve posted this story before , but it deserves to be recycled in honor of Bill’s last few days. This happened back in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:44 PM by LarryOsterman | 22 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

Hold on, Oliver the Wonder Pony and his rider are ranked 14th in the Nation?

Wow. In the past, I've written about Oliver, the pony we bought a couple of years ago for my daughter to ride. Sharron's long given up riding, but fortunately a young woman in our barn, Margaret Odom decided to take a flier on Oliver and the two have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:48 PM by LarryOsterman | 2 Comments
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Off to the 5th Avenue Awards tonight!

Tonight we're going to be attending the 2008 5th Avenue High School Musical Awards show. It's the local equivalent of the Tony awards for High School musical productions. This year Daniel won an Honorable Mention for his performance as Brownlow in Overlake's Read More...
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 9:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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