Today was our big “data centre” upgrade day. Andrew West and Bob Winans drove down to Washington, D.C. with me last night. This was Bob’s first trip to Washington to see where Andy and I have been working for the past year. Our project for this weekend was to work on a system upgrade for …
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February 16, 2001: Bob and Andy go to Maryland
Today is the beginning of a fun trip for Bob Winans, Andrew West and I. I can’t remember the details but I believe that Bob taught today and then drove down to Endicott, New York to the IBM facility there where Andy and I work. And and I work in the hexagonally windowed engineering building …
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December 31, 2000: The Big New Year’s Eve Party
Tonight is the big New Year’s Eve Party! This is the party that Sheep Guarding Llama was originally created to announce. Strangely, I didn’t update the site with any information about the party tonight until a full seven years later! (Post created on December 28, 2007.) Andy, Bob, Nate and I are all living in …
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May 5, 2000: Go Live Day!
Cinco de Mayo! Today was a huge day for Andy and I. When we first came to Pittsburgh in March our schedule for getting the Waste Watcher project up and running and “live” was May 1st. That day was insanely ambitious and it was not realistic at all for the project to move that quickly. …
March 22, 2000: Working in Shadyside
Today is our first real day of doing work in Pittsburgh. We don’t have much time to “settle into a groove”. We are going from “zero to one hundred” practically overnight. Today we got set up with an office in the bowels of UPMC Shadyside from which we will be working for the next several …