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Monday, March 06, 2006 1:35 PM

Lucy in the Sky Without a Man

There was another interesting post at AVSIM the other day, that the author also emailed to us at tell_fs@microsoft.com , in which he offered suggestions for a "Wife Edition" of Flight Sim. It was full of jokes about shopping, shoes, housework, hair and
Posted by Hal9000 | 207 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 11:40 AM

On the Other Hand

If you really want to see what the life of a software tester isn't like, you could dive into the nearest cultural dumpster and flush 87 minutes of your life down this cinematic low-flow toilet . . . No, I haven't seen it, but in the tradition of self-styled
Posted by Hal9000 | 1 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 11:10 AM

Not Such a Hard Day's Night . . .

It occurred to me that I don’t spend a lot of time here talking about what I actually do for Microsoft on the Flight Simulator team. It has occurred to a number of people, especially my unbelievably dedicated and vaguely effluvial next door neighbor,
Posted by Hal9000 | 6 Comments
Sunday, December 11, 2005 7:54 AM

Blink, or don't, and you'll miss me . . .

I am an attention miser (perhaps a distant cousin of Heat and Snow ) . . . . I tend to pay it out in very small doses (as my friend Knat said in her brilliant article, How to be Distracted , "Hey look, a squirrel"), measure the value of things in my life
Posted by Hal9000 | 16 Comments
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:42 AM

Well, yeah it was a little, but I don't think it actually did that . . .

What's that smell? Oh, I know . . . it's "old blog". Sorry about that. The last post seemed to be pretty well received, and a number of you have asked if we get other email messages like that. Unfortunately, almost all of our customers are sane, rational
Posted by Hal9000 | 7 Comments
Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:32 AM

Tell FS . . . Why I shouldn't Blog on a Sunday Morning

Every day, we get a number of suggestions sent to our tell_fs@microsoft.com email address. And, when I say “suggestions”, I mean letters from the widows of Nigerian finance ministers, offers for discounted Viagra, complaints about our copy protection,
Posted by Hal9000 | 25 Comments
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:13 PM

What - am I Reading?

Taking a cue from Jason's music listings , and a more direct theft from my friend and semi-retired colleague Bruce Williams' excellent site, here's a list of books that I'm currently picking at as time allows. Having been sick for the last two weeks (or,
Posted by Hal9000 | 4 Comments
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:00 PM

Is Something Always Better Than Nothing?

A good pal of mine, when I was floundering around with muttered apologies for not having written in so long, offered to loan me an excuse, which I'll reuse here: "I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control." Normally, I wouldn't quote
Posted by Hal9000 | 5 Comments
Monday, October 17, 2005 9:07 PM

Monday Mourning

It was a lousy way to start a week, and a terrible reason to get back to posting here after an 11 day absence . . . I found out this morning that two students from Seattle’s Aviation High School, Brittany Boatright and Kandyce Cowart, were among the three
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:53 PM

Full Circle

As of next month, I will have been working on the Flight Simulator franchise for 7 years. As of next year, I will have been a customer of said franchise (the longest continuously published piece of software I know of) for 25 years. One of the very few
Posted by Hal9000 | 7 Comments
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:00 PM

Is this thing on?

I'm a terrible role model. You see, 20 minutes ago, MS Flight Simulator art lead and artist extraordinaire Jason Waskey came into my office and refused to leave until I transformed myself from someone who wasn't sure if "blog" was a noun or a verb into
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