"They're almost done deep-frying the new app!"

I will definitely try that. But maybe not until after we get the money...

Called Hello, Flawless. It's not a loose mineral powder foundation; it's your standard pressed powder. But it's so unbelievably matte that I almost cried. (I'm often quite shiny, so a matte powder that stays matte is a thing of beauty.)

For April Fools one year I sent around a memo saying that in the future each client would have its own font, and that whenever possible the font would reflect the nature of the client. That way, there would be no more confusion over what documents belonged where.

Then I gave some examples. They included cloud-writing font for an airline or something.

No fewer than three (out of only a dozen people in that office) came to me asking WHAT partner had approved this and INSISTING that it would only make things MORE confusing.

I seem to have been put in charge of organizing a scavenger hunt for Bring your Children to work day.

Sadly, this is not an April Fools day joke.

Cylons are here! And they can fold towels!

Robot folds laundry

The robot begins by picking up a randomly dropped towel from a table, goes through a sequence of vision-based re-grasps and manipulations-- partially in the air, partially on the table--and finally stacks the folded towel in a target location. The reliability and robustness of our algorithm enables for the first time a robot with general purpose manipulators to reliably and fully-autonomously fold previously unseen towels, demonstrating success on all 50 out of 50 single-towel trials as well as on a pile of 5 towels.

It appears parts of the video are sped up. Plus the robot spends a lot of time looking at the towel while rotating it with its "hand". Still, creepy....

I seem to have been put in charge of organizing a scavenger hunt for Bring your Children to work day.

I read this as "Bring your Chicken to work day."

Welcome little Luna! I'm sorry that the delivery was so hard, but she is a thing of beauty.

I really love Aromaleigh too, but I find that as I get older, the redness from the rosacea gets harder and harder to tame, especially in photos. grrr.

I seem to have been put in charge of organizing a scavenger hunt for Bring your Children to work day.

Scavenger hunts aren't too bad if you can get away with just hiding clues instead of clues and toys in each spot. But yeah, they do take a while to set up.

Ooh, I may have to check that out, Tep. I'm very shiny, too, and I prefer powder foundations to any other, because they're so light and don't build up in my pores like other foundations.

I have been liking the Covergirl simply ageless foundation--the kind with Olay swirled in. Cheap, covers red and lasts the day without looking like I am wearing anything. I am still looking for something to wear under my eyes. I don't have dark circles, but I do have bags and some wrinkles. Everything I try just looks cakey and makes the lines look worse. Any suggestions?

okay buffistas, don't let me down... what do you all know about the google envelopes? [link]