June 2009
6 posts
Celebrating Ben
A few months ago, Ben Smith celebrated his one year anniversary at OpenRain. We knew we wanted to get something funny, yet personalized. After much discussion, we decided to build a bobblehead in his likeness.
Presenting Bobblehead Ben
Ben is an avid and amazing rock climber. Knowing this, we chose to design as many elements of the sport into the bobblehead. For instance, we had the...
More cowbell
Last Friday, our internal Haiku generator made a few public appearances on Twitter:
I made a Haiku But you know what it needs now? A lot more cowbell #haiku
Around 3:00pm in the afternoon, Steven Shaffer stopped by the office with just about the coolest gift ever:
Thus proving that cowbell can, in fact, be prescribed to just about anything.
Thanks Steven!
Bug triage
Preston: It's becoming clear that anyone on the significant periods needs to have their own isolated office space
Saul: How about a soundproof booth? I was thinking it could also double as one of those things where people go in and try to grab all the money flying around in the air
Marc: Instead of money, we could print out Redmine/Trac tickets on sticky notes. Those are the bugs they need (or don't need) to fix.
Preston: That's so agile!
Interruptions are hazardous
Saul: cozi.com [a CRM for managing families]
Erica: Saul, cozi looks cool. Right now we [erica + husband] use a mix of Google Calendar & TaData lists
Saul: I need to build a site like this before my kids get too much older.
Marc: Um.. I use this technique called "TALKING". It's pretty revolutionary. I'll have to describe the technique in detail sometime.
Saul: We're sitting right next to each other, and you're not talking to me now...
Marc: ....
Marc: I didn't want to interrupt Ben
