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My Brother David's Model Boat

Why didn't they have cool toys like this when I was growing up?

On Being a Virtual Moving Target: All the Cards in the Air

Sun must be a leader in flexible office and work from home policies and technologies. Its definitely one of the things I enjoy about working for Sun; I'm able to do a lot of work without wasting gas and time commuting. But there is always some pain with pioneering new things. Although I rarely visit an office when I'm home, and am on the road quite a bit, I had become accustomed to the convenient office 15 minutes away for picking up mail and so forth. Recent office consolidations and concurrent reorganizations ("property portfolio capacity reductions") have made logistics a bit more challenging than usual.

This is a recent instant message exchange I had with "Jane", an coworker at one of my favorite customers. She has been bugging me about getting one of my business cards for her files some time ago. I've been pretty bad about keeping business cards, and I had just ordered some.

lou: i ordered business cards!

jane: you did? do i get one? or some? ?

lou: but we are going to re-org, so they won't show a department or an address or a phone or a title or a department but they will have my name! they can't change that (can they?)

jane: that's too funny ... so do i get one?

lou: absolutely now i just need to figure out where my office is so i can pick them up i hadn't thought about that