William Reardon’s Blog

After sufficent harassment, Khayman has returned to the blogging world. Apparently, Rick and I drove him into the alleys of the Internet by our insessent request for the ability to comment on his blog. For now, we’ll have to stick to harassing him on IM. C’est la vie.

Jimmy took me on a tour of Microsoft today. Or parts of it. As far as a I can tell Microsoft occupies Redmond much like how the Germans once occupied France. I couldn’t have thrown a stone in the town without hitting a Microsoft building. I didn’t get to see Eric, as he wasn’t in town. We did visit the MS store and walked away with the many requested copies of Office, XP and the like, nearly blowing out Jimmy’s spending quota in one trip.

Despite all the high tech culture, it was two unexpected details that most impressed me of Microsoft:

• Yes, they stock free pop, but they stock Diet Sprite!
  
• They have their own library! Their own 24 hour library! Not only that, but they go so far as to stock ACM publications. Meaning, Jimmy could check out various SIGIR publications for me browse.

Quinn continues to be quite possibly the cutest baby ever born. He’s at the point were can roll over (one way), squeel and giggle. He’s also teething, which apparently means he drolls a lot & like to stick his tounge out. Gross, normally, yes, but adorable when he does it.

One tip on Seattle — if you hear someone pitch you for an “Underground Tour”, take a second to think & realize you’re being sold a tour of a couple of basements. Maybe I can at least save you $10.

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