Re: are you still working for macrosoft?

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--- Gail <http://profiles.yahoo.com/gail_sx> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>    
>   Yes, I'm still here, until June 20th. After a year, it's bye, don't let the
> door hit you on the ass on the way out... and don't come back! (for at least
> 3 months)

I guess both a blessing and a curse.

> Sorry to hear that you'll be joining us.

Yeah, our company is being acquired by macrosoft.  I have mixed feelings about
this.

> Contracting at MS has given me a
> whole new level of disgust with all of their products :-D I used to be
> horrified and amazed as a user, and now that I know what happens on the way
> to market, I have whole new levels of H&A!

H&A -- Horror and Amazement.  Yeah.

> If you have any kind of process in place, I hope you're allowed to keep it!
> Did you see the voice recognition demos that happened with the recent release
> of Vista? They've been all over YouTube and various places. Pretty pathetic.

Ah.  Perhaps that's why Tell_me is being acquired.

I just hope they don't screw up the place.  My manager is a smart guy and a
good manager.  (But, for some reason, managers seem to have an underlying mean
streak about them; perhaps this is par for the course.)
   
>   Anyway... how have you been in general?

Fine.  We're cutting through our Netflix queue.  Between us, I think Noelle and
I have about 80 movies.  We went to Cinequest a couple of weeks ago.  It was
good being in a movie theater again, albeit briefly.

How about you?  Anything new?  Are you still in where-I-live, living with your
sister?  Is your San Leandro house OK these days?  Have you seen Roberta or
anybody?