Tag Archives: work
What I Can’t Write on An Evaluation
I’m filling out an evaluation for my intern right now. It’s her last day, and she’s worked really hard.
The question I’m looking at asks, “What did the intern learn during her experience?”
I probably can’t write:
I think my intern got a good glimpse of what work in an business office environment is like, the monotony and existential alienation.
But, [...]
Extract Image from Word without Losing Quality
Say somebody sends you a word document. And there’s an image in it that you want to save. You copy and paste it from Word into the Gimp. Then you cry because you suddenly lost all sorts of quality.
You paste it into something else. Still horrific quality.
Here’s what to do: [...]
Excel ‘Save As Webpage’ Fonts Blurry
At work, we’ve hacked together a dashboard with some key metrics to enhance our productivity via synergistic measureability.
Or something like that.
In any case, you know it’s a hack because we’re using Excel’s ‘save as web page’ function to push Excel charts up via to the web. Hack. O. Rama. My main goal [...]
Decatur Electronics
I work at Decatur Electronics. We make radar guns. In fact, we pretty much invented it.
The local paper just ran a story about us. You can also see pictures here.
That’s my hand holding that first antenna. I’m a famous hand model!
Regenerating My Creative Drive or Choosing Who Controls My Life