July 22, 2002

spinning things aren't so good

The company picnic for Bay Area Microsoft employees was Saturday at Great America. While Great America is fun, it's a somewhat strange choice for a company gathering, because your odds of running into friends there is ... low. I'm sure it actually worked great for people smart enough to arrange to meet each other ahead of time, but I wasn't that smart.

We didn't stay for that long, though, because Meredith wasn't feeling all that well when we got there. After going on two spinning rides, Meredith was really not feeling all that well.

So we left pretty early. Meredith protested loudly that she really would be fine ... until we got home, and she promptly fell asleep for an hour and a half.


The other day I got caught driving behind someone using a cell phone. No, no, it's not that he was driving while talking on his phone — he was biking. Try to imagine just how much control he had with only his left hand controlling the bike. Not to mention his total inability to use the rear break like this. I was rather impressed with myself that I didn't hit him.

I've been spending time lately teaching myself how to write C# and use the Windows .NET Framework. One of my first programs with it (because I have to have some reason, however silly, to write code) was something to take a bunch of pictures and scale them down to both web picture size and thumbnail size, and generate HTML for it. It's what I used to create the picture pages for the Ann Arbor trip journal.

To learn more, I ordered a bunch of books from Microsoft Press on .NET programming. They showed up today — from AOL Time Warner Book Group. Ah, irony.

Posted by Mike at July 22, 2002 10:00 PM