tomatolounge

As rich and robust our IT department is, we may have to open a spot for 11-year old Jon Penn, who manages his elementary school’s 60-machine network. This all started when the previous network administrator at his Sherwood, Arkansas school simply got up and left (just like Jason), leaving the IT systems in shambles and in the hands of the school librarian. Turns out though that the librarian is actually Jon’s mom, so she handed the duties over to him. Jon has since scrubbed the aging Windows 98 machines of their accumulated viruses and spyware, and he’s installed a firewall and virus/spam filter to keep things clean while he works out a plan to move to Windows 2000 and centralized system management.

Currently Jon is handling a variety of IT requests like fixing paper jams to revising server configurations, but this summer he hopes to obtain his A+ Certification, a computer-technician certification. Aside from that, he is hoping to make time to train our very own Jorge Q.

I give credit to my good friends and Neighbors, Ted and Deb, for raising my curiousity this morning during the Commute.
Deb was hungry so Ted pull out this, hmm, banana shaped tuperweare kind of with side ventilation, that protects…, well your banana, from being squashed around in your bag. And it comes in a lot of different colors. So, boys and girls, banana snackers this could definitely improve your banana experience…

my early-in-my-work-life “master”, Jean Nouvel, finally gets the Pritzker Prize, the equivalent of architecture’s Nobel Prize. I remember working there with no French citizen in sight and everybody speaking english in the office, that was global already.

We worked on this competition (the never ending tower in the Paris Business District) litterally from 9.00 am until 1.00 am every days for about 2 weeks, and I felt guilty because I was the first one to leave the office to catch the last subway…The project manager was waiting for “jean-jean” to stop by after his daily evening stop at “Les Bains” the parisian version of New York’s Studio 54….

i like the look of these simple bright looking ads. the minimal approach is effective as it was enuf to make me take a picture of the ad and post it on the site. strong stuff

By now, you should have already seen the numerous “IV” ads wheat-pasted around the city – they’ve been up for the past year or so. All they show is the roman number for four, and the words “coming soon”.

I came across an article today about a robot babysitter. My first reaction was that if I were a 5 yr old kid, I would initially be pretty amused and then I would try to take the thing down. Here’s the write up:

Inhuman babysitters aren’t all that uncommon around the world, but a new creature recently placed in a Japanese department store is a godsend for shopaholics with rugrats in tow. Developed by Tmsuk, the 1.4-meter tall bot is employed at a Fukuoka retailer in order to keep watch over rambunctious youngsters that are dropped off by their overworked parents. Reportedly, said critter boasts an integrated projector and camera, a colorful yellow / white outfit and the ability to identify children by name based on a special tag that each kiddo wears while playing. Of course, the manufacturer isn’t looking to just shove one or two of these into every store in Japan — oh no, it’s hoping to create similar robots that could one day “guide customers through the aisles of a store,” fill their carts or whisper the joke of the day in a French accent into their ears.

The trend of the time is at Globalization and franchising about everything from Food (Alain Ducasse restaurant in Singapore anyone ) to Art.
The guggenheim foundation at some successes (Bilbao) and some failures (south street seaport downtown + Las Vegas Museum – Who goes to Las Vegas to see an art exhibit?) now it is the turn of the Coney Island Parachute Jump Consortium to expand beyond its frontier.
See the latest proposal by serero architects for the “temporary” observation of the Eiffel tower in Paris, I mean the Eiffel Parachute Jump brought to you by the Coney Island Consortium. The “Temporary” structure (the eiffel tower was supposed to be temporary to about 120 years ago) should host double attendance and remain for the entire 2009.
I am talking two bets; one, this will never be built, second, that the line downstairs will be even longer if it ever happen. yet, would love to see 10 million people going up there a year.

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