Deep, syrupy and rich heady smooth body. Strong & bold, earthy & sweet with buttery oomph! An intense and powerful tongue hugger. A blend of five beans from four continents and five different roast levels: Sumatra roasted two different ways, Guatemala, Ethiopian and Papua New Guinea. This is the description given by Barefoot Coffee Roasters [...]
This happens to be one of the better articles I’ve seen that lets out some of the details of Google’s datacenters and how stuff gets done. As they say about halfway through, it’s a bit useful to have some CS background to understand the details. While I currently work on software pretty much entirely not [...]
Home prices fell at record pace in first quarter. I think I mentioned a while back that Linda and I have been looking to purchase a house, off and on. We recently decided that we’d stick with our two-bedroom apartment for at least the time being, despite the fact that we’re going to have to [...]
As Linda says, we’re doing some spring cleaning. It’s partly to get ready for the baby, but we’re finding that there’s an awful lot of crap sitting around here taking up space. While I’m not quite ready to get rid of my collection of Google T-shirts (I did split them into ones I’ll wear vs. [...]
I ran into this link in one of my coworkers’ GTalk status messages (A surprising amount of communication at Google happens through this channel). It’s actually something I was muttering to Linda about the other day. I really need to cut back on my television watching — not so much on the first-run stuff (Hey, [...]