Katy Dickinson

"TMNT" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Movie)

Much against my best judgement and personal preferences, last Friday my son and I went to see "TMNT" - the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. After several days of working his way through all of his usual teenage tricks (puppy eyes, sulks, showing me the trailer to get me interested, wheedling...), Paul finally got around to offering me a straight trade. He agreed to watch two Shakespeare videos before Monday plus giving me a shoulder rub in exchange for my taking him to see that movie.

He absolutely loved "TMNT". I have seen worse movies; there were some funny bits. After picking over my Shakespeare movie collection, Paul dutifully watched "Twelfth Night" (1996 - Director: Trevor Nunn, Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley) and "Richard III" (1995 - Director: Richard Loncraine, Starring: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr.) the next day. He said Richard III was evil and that he had seen worse movies. The shoulder rub was lovely.

Posted at 06:57PM Apr 12, 2007 by katysblog in Home & Family  | 

5 Matched So Far - SEED 4-Site Term

We started the matching cycle for the SEED Engineering mentoring 4-Site term on Tuesday. Already, we have 5 confirmed mentoring pairs plus at least a dozen more potential mentors who have expressed interest in following up with the SEED participant who requested them. All 5 matches so far have been at a distance, where the mentoring pair are based in different countries. Surprisingly, SEED's satisfaction measures consistently show no statistical difference between mentoring pairs working locally and those working at a distance. 46 more SEED pairs to match!

• Vice President and Fellow in Washington (State) accepted a Senior Staff Engineer in Bangalore
• Senior Staff Engineer in California accepted a Staff Engineer in Bangalore
• Director in Prague accepted a Member of the Technical Staff in St. Petersburg, Russia
• Senior Staff Engineer in Illinois accepted an MTS in Prague
• Senior Staff Engineer in California accepted a Staff Engineer in Beijing

We are also getting ready for SEED's Mid-Term Event. We hold in-person events twice a year (plus 10 phone-in meetings). The 20 April event will feature 3 executive speakers who have all also served as SEED mentors:

• James Baty, Distinguished Engineer, Vice President, Chief Architect Global Sales
• Roger Meike, Research Director, Sun Labs
• Noreen Krall, Chief Patent Counsel (Vice President)

In addition, the event will offer the SEED Showcase (3 SEED participants presenting their current work), a tour of Sun's Executive Briefing Center, and an invitation to the Sun Labs Bash (weekly after-work party).

Posted at 03:43PM Apr 12, 2007 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |