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Biggest Shipment

2006-05-06T08:46:00.000-07:00

I wake up to hear a truck backing up.. and I look outside.. and see the UPS truck parking in a way so that their back was facing our door and it stopped. Ben got the door.. and it came.

Probably the biggest order (physically and financially) I have ever made online. Took like 1/4 of the living room space. Our living room has become a wherehouse / Dennis' golf course.

What is it? It's good investment. That's what.

Bank of America Savings - 0.9% back
Good Savings Account - 4.5%
Money Market - 4.5%
a decent 1 year CD - 5.2% back
a decent mutual fund - 10% back
My investment - 100% back

The Team Building

2006-05-06T08:12:00.000-07:00

Our group at ****** had an outdoor / team building exercise yesterday.

Definitely was cool to see all the people you work with doing nonwork related stuff. :)

First mistake is that I relied on my navigation. I kinda knew where it was and what it was called.. so I drove to SF and then.. started looking for the place on my navi. I couldn't find Fort Miler in the list. I was lost..

I kinda gave up finding the place.. so I just got out of my car and took a picture of my car.

and the scenary

I remembered my manager saying that you can view the ocean and she made it sound like it was on top of a hill.. so I started to just drive around SF coast and than I found it!

When I got there, they were doing trust building exercises.. things like falling on eachother.. or using eachother for balance.

and then we had to run through hoops as a team. I guess.. if you don't plan/work/pick a leader, etc.. people get hit by the rope.

and then Puzzles. They set certain rules.. and give you items and you gotta come up with solutions

After that.. they let us free.. and we got to do whatever activity we wanted to do. All involve climbing up and doing something..

It really didn't look that high.. and I actually laughed with the worker how some guy looked hella scared up there. The worker asked if I was scared and I said "nah.. I'll be fine".. but once I got up there.. I froze up. and my leg started shaking to no end. I actually wanted to get down as soon as I climbed up.. but after I laughed at the guy before me.. I couldn't. This is the one I did.

walk back out of the forest

The lunch was not up to Company standards, but it was cool. Made me realize how spoiled we are. I was just hungry and freezing that I just shoved that sandwich in my face.

Spoofee Vbulletin Broken

2006-05-02T00:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday night, I upgraded the discussion board software on Spoofee to vBulletin 3.5.
Gosh.. I forgot I had so many hacks put in place for the older version. it totally broke everything. I tried to fix until 5am.. but I collapsed.. and dragged myself to work at 10am.

Yuck.. work is eating too much of my time :( I have another demo to do tomorrow.. rrrg.

Kellog's Corn Pops

2006-04-30T10:33:00.000-07:00

I have a bad habit of buying things in bulk to save money.

Looks like I'll be set with my favorite cereal for a while. :)

Maker's Faire

2006-04-29T19:55:00.000-07:00

I went to a Maker's faire last week. I followed my gf to see her crafts fair stuff.. But Wow.. at the entrance.. a modified 100+mpg Prius. wish they had more info on this thing other than the 100+MPG sticker

Kinda cool seeing the owners of the site that my gf visits quite often.

Bike wheels that light up. ... that's cool n all.. but.. ok ok.. I won't say anything. Thumbs up!

Microsoft's room was prett poorely done.

So I thought the Smart Car was very cool until I visited these guys. I was even thinking of buying it there when I saw it. Expecting it to be $10kish.

But the person told me it costs $20~25k.

I had to ask "why would I want to buy this over a Prius?" After the lady passing me onto the "specialist".. he told me that "Prius is a great car..." and went onto say Smart Car is all gas powered and Smart Car is smaller.

So Prius > Smart car in every way. Except that Smart car is smaller...

Dude... wtf. seriously.. wtf is this.

I'm gonna have to give it to Yahoo, they had the coolest booth and their people were well organized. Beautiful ladies inviting people in and techy people explaining inside. Other places.. any questions I asked.. I usually got referred to someone else.

Funny pointless, but memorable freebies too!

This place was just wierd..

First Day at Google

2005-10-25T03:20:00.000-07:00

My First Day at Google
- When I walked in the lobby, they gave me a badge with not by my name, but said Noogler. It felt like the first day of Highschool and being in a tour group at the same time.

They gave me a nice eight hour orientation with other nooglers. They really make it sound too good to be true and make you want to stay forever.

Once I got to my cubicle.. let's just say.. Google really makes it so there can be NOTHING to complain about. Everything is Top of the Top of the line.

When I started up my computer, it was Linux and the system gave an error. I thought it was a test to see what I'll do to fix it, but I really had no clue. =P I just saw a few people coding around me and it really scares me. People are really nice, well.. too nice.. that it makes you think something is wrong or something is about to come up. This feeling here reminds me of when I started my previous job, and I didn't know the difference between XML and HTML. Just feels completely useless, but we'll see.. it's only been a few hours since I actually sat at my cubicle.

I think I'll have a lot of fun ~~eating~~ working here, but it looks like I got a lot to learn.

Introduction of Myself
- My name is Kenjiro Yagi, but feel free to call me Kenji or YAGI! for short and simplicity. I'm a recent college graduate from UC, Santa Cruz and I have a bachelors degree in Computer Science. I've been working as a contractor for NASA for 2 years and also the owner/creator of Spoofee.com (a deal hunting website).

Some of my favorite movies that come to mind

Some Random Things About me

I will leave what they mean up to the reader.