My friend Matt Michie wondered what the symbol DEP1 matched in his post about Seattle 911 Dispatch on I5. He’s speaking of the real time Seattle 911 mashup that puts 911 calls on google maps. I tried but couldn’t find any information on this DEP1 symbol so wrote in to the Seattle fire department [...]
Over lunch Jodi and I happened upon American Idol’s Blake Lewis and Sir Mix-A-Lot in downtown Seattle… Blake’s performance was mediocre, but when Sir Mix-A-Lot performed “Baby’s got back” to Blake’s beatboxing I have to admit I didn’t mind being there.
Update #2: From the Seattle Times
“The people on that show can singggggg. [...]
Question: Ryan Maas wanted to know “why it is that when I am driving to or from work on the Eastside … I see most buses empty with signage on dictating that they are headed back to base. Can’t the buses pick up people headed across the water?” Answer: They [...]
I’ve writen about being an SDET before and now here is Google’s take on the definitions of Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC) and the roll they call Test Engineering.
Here at Google, we tend to take a third approach that we call Test Engineering. We look at this as a bridge between the [...]
I hope I never find an Antonio Banderas cut out, ever.
Today in my downtown office building, someone found a life-size cardboard cut out of Antonio Banderas in a ladies restroom. No one knew how it got there or why it was there. If it was yours, sorry for your loss [...]