After a heavy lunch of Indian food it’s hard to stay awake. Nothing keeps you going like a cup (or two) of delicious Elite turkish coffee prepared in the newly set up coffee office: “The Coffice” with the tools I recently imported.
Marvelous.
It’s not even 9:00 AM yet and I already spilled a big mug full of coffee all over my office and myself. Damage was mostly contained and all equipment was spared. The only thing that worries me is the smell that may be left behind. Will it stay or will it go?
This has brought me [...]
National Instruments Latin-American Picnic (by Jaramillo)
(gigantic version here)
On Saturday, all (ok, not everyone made it) Latin-American employees of National Instruments got together for a little and absolutely non-official get together complete with BBQ’ing, kite-flying, high performance beach volleyball, and more.
I thought I already knew everyone, or at least a large majority… but I actually [...]
For years I’ve kept a big thing of Old Fashioned Quaker Oats in the kitchen on my floor, at work. Some people take the liberty of taking some oatmeal, sure. That’s ok with me. They sell this huge box at Costco for $5 dollars that will last me for months. It’s so cheap I’m seriously [...]
No. Not the TV Show.
Like every damn year, we make it to the playoffs only to lose on the next game. It’s like Mexico in the World Cup. And I feel like I was run over by a herd of dewbacks (wow, that reference made me even less appealing to women - better shut up [...]
My parents were here this weekend (until yesterday). Coincidentally, NI-Week (THE virtual instrumentation conference) opened yesterday.
Since my parents have been asking me for six years what it is that I do, and I have been unsuccessful at explaining it to them, this was a perfect chance to see it firsthand. They signed up and got [...]
Current season record: 2 wins, 1 loss.
Faithful readers of this blog know of some of my past sports-related incidents, specifically this one and this one.
Well, to my surprise a couple of weeks ago I was tipped of a photograph of myself in the elevator. Now, ever distrustful of elevators (and airplanes, cell phones, computers, and all things technological) as I [...]
My office was vandalized last Thursday. I was shocked to walk in and find a poster of Walter Gaitán, the man who symbolizes evil itself and all things that are wrong with this world (also happens to play for arch-rival Tigres), partially obscuring my poster of Master Yoda. I’m still feeling a little bit disgusted [...]
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Last Wednesday, Dr. T and Mark Finger took me and other co-workers for lunch to celebrate our 5th (or 10th or 15th) anniversary working at National Instruments (three months after the fact, but we’re all busy people with no time for trivial things like celebration lunches and updating a blog, right?).
It [...]
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