![]() Just then, Karla in the office across the hall screamed and then glared out at us from her doorway. The situation really begged a discussion of Turing logic - could we have discerned that the entity behind the door was indeed even human? We slid Kraft singles, Premium Plus crackers, Pop-Tarts, grape leather, and Freezie-Pops in to him. We heard his keyboard chatter, so we figured he was still alive. Michael's office lights were on, but once again, when we knocked, he wouldn't answer his door. ![]() Our group is scheduled to ship product in just eleven days (Top Secret: We'll never make it). When we returned to Building Seven at 3:00 a.m., there were still a few people grinding away. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing: one line at a time, one line in a strand of millions. Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Because of all the rich nerds living around here, Redmond and Bellevue are very "on-demand" neighborhoods. The Safeway was completely empty save for us and a few other Microsoft people just like us - hair-trigger geeks in pursuit of just the right snack. We went shopping for "flat" foods to slip underneath Michael's door. ![]() ![]() It looks like green Lego pads.įinally, at about 2:30 a.m., Todd and I got concerned about Michael's not eating, so we drove to the 24-hour Safeway in Bellevue. They mow the lawn every ten minutes at Microsoft. ![]()
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