I love my job...

Here is a copy of a clip played at our last company meeting, to encourage us to turn out the lights when we're done with a room. At a lesser company, you'd be told "Please turn our the lights, it costs us lots of money." At National Instruments, you get told:

New Van

Our car started having troubles a few weeks ago. We ended up deciding that it would be better to replace it than to fix it, especially since we've pretty much outgrown it anyway. So, after much searching we ended up with a 2004 Honda Odyssey:



You know how some people name their cars? I've always thought that could be fun, but I can never come up with a really good one, and using a dumb name always felt pretentious.

Well, Shauna came up with the perfect name for this one:

Tohru. Tohru Honda.

Quote of the day

I was looking over the catalog of sessions presented at the Game Developers Conference earlier this year. I noticed a session from the Mercenaries 2 design team, describing programming a physics engine which supports network gameply, which looked very technically interesting. But then I saw the intended audience line:

Intended Audience:

Programmers who need to network a large streaming world and/or havok simulation. People who enjoy blowing things up.

I think that includes a great number of us.