I started work at Pixar on Thursday, January 21st, 1999, so today is my tenth anniversary. I was supposed to start on Monday the 18th, but INS saw fit to deny my entry into the country, mainly because I’d chosen to believe something I’d read on the Internet instead of following the advice of the immigration [...] » Read more

We spent last weekend in Southern California, sweltering through a heat wave at Disneyland, being tourists in Hollywood, and attending the world premiere of Wall-E at the Greek Theatre. Getting to go was Susan’s privilege as a lead on the film and I got to tag along and pretend to be famous. Although not your [...] » Read more

We finally shipped PRMan 13.5 yesterday. Wow, has it been that long in gestation? Just about as bad as giving birth to a giraffe. The toughest release I’ve ever had to work on; and that included 13.0, the first multi-threading capable release. (And I moved in the middle of 13.0.) February and March of this year [...] » Read more

I spent all of last week in San Diego, attending SIGGRAPH 2007 – the annual conference for computer graphics geeks. I drove there and back instead of flying. Not sure why I thought this was a good idea, particularly since I’d just done the trip up to Oregon the previous weekend; basically doing [...] » Read more

Busy weekend here. Susan and I dressed up for the Ratatouille wrap party on Saturday, this year at the Masonic Temple in SF. Started early for us since she had singing dress rehearsal in the afternoon. The Pixar singers outdid themselves this year; there were the usual speeches (Brad Bird had some moving things to [...] » Read more

Coinciding with my eight year anniversary at Pixar, I found out today I’m moving offices soon, to another building. Neither my current office nor my new one is in the main Pixar complex. This will be my sixth office move. This is probably about average for employees of my tenure – as productions wrap up, [...] » Read more

Two separate Scrabble games yesterday – spelled HIDER in the first game, DICING in the second, at which point Susan sternly told me to stop thinking about work. Somehow this overshadowed scoring a bingo in each game, and in any event I have many a ways to go til I get 830 points a [...] » Read more

It’s a new look, mostly inspired by Edward Tufte. The old look, with its ruled elements that drove down the data-ink ratio – or should that be the data-pixel ratio? – is still available as an alternate stylesheet. I shouldn’t dwell on the pain necessary to get this so-called two-column fluid layout all [...] » Read more

Very busy. We were at work late on Friday, then from 9:30 am Saturday to 2 am Sunday. It was for a good cause though: volunteering for JDRF’s latest Bay Area fundraiser, a Cars pre-release screening and gala. I’d volunteered for a different JDRF gala event last year; this year I got to see [...] » Read more

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