I'm still employed. Unfortunately, many of my friends and teammates are not.

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Drawn by my co-worker Jarad Coats.

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Both of these articles appeared on page C1 of the L.A. Times today.

1. Yahoo! is about to implode, but don't worry, Carl Icahn and Microsoft have a plan.

2. Google is totally awesome, and even has wacky conference room and printer names.

Labels: los angeles times, yahoo

Levi has "tagged" me with the following task...

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

I'm at work right now, and the closest book to me is on my boss's desk: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Step by Step, written by The Staff of Online Training Solutions, Inc.

After drawing an AutoShape, you can change it by selecting it, clicking the Draw button on the Drawing toolbar, clicking Change AutoShape, and then choosing a new shape. In addition to changing the actual shape, you can change the look of a shape by changing its attributes. A shape might have graphic attributes -- such as fill, line, and shadow -- or text attributes -- such as style, font, color, embossment, and shadow.

Fascinating, I know, and probably not quite what Levi was hoping for. (I don't even have a good story about asking my boss to borrow her book, because she's out sick today.) I'm not even going to tag five people, because I don't know five people who read this blog and weren't already named by Levi. But if anyone wants to play along, feel free.

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I saw this web site as part of my job -- and recognized that the TV Guide covers appearing in the "Boomer Slideshow" in the upper left-hand corner are from my collection that I scanned and uploaded to Flickr. (Some of the covers have distinctive creases and/or writing on them.)

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I don't know much more than you do, except for the fact that Microsoft claims free chocolate milk as an employee benefit, which is something that Yahoo! does not provide (the only beverages Yahoo! offers free are soda, juice, and barista-served coffee-type drinks).

On a completely unrelated note, I have come to believe that the future of portable media belongs to the Zune. Also, I'm very happy that I have the ability to run Windows on my Mac -- hmm, I wonder if it's possible to get rid of OS X.

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I'm either attempting Toto's "Africa" or having an aneurysm.



Wider view of the scene...



(It was the director of our department who suggested the karaoke machine be set up in this location, among the cubicles, near where some people were still trying to work.)

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Google Maps now has street-level views of Los Angeles. They didn't cover much of the Valley, but they did manage to take photos of their competition's buildings in Burbank. I don't know why I find it amusing, but I do.

The street I live on isn't included, but here's where I shop for groceries (although I never enter the parking lot from this side), and here's where I go when I need postal services (on the left -- for some reason, it won't save the exact view I want).

Labels: google, post office, ralphs, yahoo