the company i work for was acquired by a much larger company today. when i started here 4.5 months ago, it was a small 50-person startup. since then, we’ve grown to about 90 people and become profitable. today i’m one of 17,000 employees in a $14 billion company. funny.
it’s a growth acquisition - what we do is strategic and complementary to what they do (as opposed to acquisitions driven by overlapping businesses and/or the need for funding). it’s a very good thing. nobody is laid off, we stay in NYC (and possibly move into a bigger, better building), remain an independently run company, get better benefits, and best of all - options vest immediately. =)
i bought an OEM Western Digital 200GB hard drive from tigerdirect.com for $100 total, and an external USB 2.0 drive enclosure for $40 from compusa. now i got a big fat, fast external drive that’s easily portable from machine to machine. cool! all the pre-configured ones at the stores are crap - they charge like $150 for an 80GB drive. what a rip.
i so had this idea first, like say, 5 years ago. ask Cindy!
Siesta And The City
The NY Post mentions MetroNaps, a midtown power-nap-orium, which hopes to become a destinations for stressed-out New Yorkers who need to rest.
this is gonna be cool…
“1:2,739,960,630″ will be a precise scale model of the solar system. It will cast the participant as an interplanetary space traveler moving from one world to the next, walking at a speed of roughly 8 billion miles per hour, or more than ten-times the speed of light.
The project will consist of ten installations spread across nearly two miles of playa. The vast scale of the Black Rock Desert is ideally suited to illustrating the immensity of space standing between one tiny world and the next.
The installations themselves are designed to communicate how isolated each planet truly is. For example, the Earth, our home and everything we know, will be represented by an object a mere 4.5mm in diameter, yet located almost 200 feet from the sun.
It is our hope that 1:2.7B will inspire participants to re-examine their concept of scale and contemplate their true place in the universe.
great pictures of the fireworks by bluejake. this guy inspires me to be even nerdier.
