Wednesday, January 27, 2010

So Long, Sun

I’ve only been involved with Sun for the past two or three years, but it’s been great while it lasted. The employees are excellent, the software fantastic, and the opportunities for fun more than can be imagined. I vaguely knew the Sun name before I started high school, but my involvement in the Sysadmin program at TJ brought me to working for Sun for a summer, and has given me extreme joy, especially when our AEG proposal was accepted, and through all the great employees I met and became friends with. Scott McNealy presented at TJ in the spring of this year, and is in my mind one of the most respected capitalists in Silicon Valley due to the way he ran Sun, and the motivations behind their moves. The company will be truly missed, and I hope that Oracle and all Sun employees keep a light burning for the passion and work that the Sun name meant for everyone. Best of luck everyone, and have a great new adventure at Oracle!

McNealy's Bittersweet Memo Bids Good-Bye to Sun - “Kick butt and have fun.”

The Register: Scott McNealy Signs Off in Style

After first learning the Sun deal had completed, the following image was created:



Thanks to James Gosling for the above images, and have a great new adventure. The future looks bright.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Toblerone Bear

Marker drawing by Joe Kern
Official Toblerone logo





















The image on the left is a drawing my roommate created a few days ago, and the picture on the right is the official logo/image on the Toblerone bars.

Went to bed yesterday at around midnight, and was woken up around 2 in the morning. Stayed up until about 4:30 since my other three roommates were still up (no reason why), and so we were just chatting and joking around for quite a bit. Got up later at 8 for my discrete math class and Freshman Year Enrichment ii, and then had my fun 8 hour lull until Russian in the evening. Only have one more week until course registration for the spring, so it feels like the year is going by quicker than it really is (today’s weather also helped the lie!).

As far as my TJ involvement is concerned, I reopened a case having to do with Dulles, and sent in some more diagnostic information to the engineer assigned to the case, so hopefully we’ll get a resolution fairly soon.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Rochester Friday in January

I took this picture yesterday, and found it sort of represents the whole season and school quarter here at RIT during the winter. The contrast between the dark on the bottom and the brighter top half symbolize the coldness, dreariness and sort of “slowness” of the length of the winter season and academic quarter, but sooner or later it will be over, and the temperatures will warm up and it’ll be spring. I also liked it for the lack of people, and the pureness of the natural surroundings that we’re blessed with here. Meanwhile, the snow is a nice symbol of the weather that will hang around for months to come. This snow fell over a week ago, and it is only now starting to finally disappear.