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Expertise

Happy Father’s Day

June 20, 2010

Dad, thanks for taking me snowshoeing, fishing, camping, boating, shooting, skiing, X-country skiing, hiking, swimming and biking. Thanks for insisting on educational summer vacations, for teaching me how to change the oil in my car, for showing me how to use power tools. Thanks for always showing up, no matter what.

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Interviews with a couple Google Engineers

May 7, 2010

I was cleaning out old files from Google Docs and came across these two interviews I did with a couple Google engineers for NCWIT in 2008, just before I left Google. Portraits by Jason of course. The two things I remember vividly about the experience: 1) we had to sneak Jason’s photo equipment into the [...]

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Flipping an egg over easy; Alton Brown

February 13, 2010

I finally flipped my first over-easy egg successfully! On a sidenote: how come I’m just starting to watch Alton Brown after ignoring him all these years. I feel like some who’s just gotten an email address for the first time ever.

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I’m Not Telling You.

February 11, 2010

Fashion Week begins today, and behind the seemingly frivolous glamour, there’s an entire industry of people making the clothes, and that fascinates me. Cathy Horyn, the NYTimes fashion editor, is reporting on the people behind the scenes, whose expertise makes the fashion world possible. Here she provides a transcript from Cindy Ferrara, pattern maker and [...]

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