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i had a line of fancy mice for a while there, I'd borrow pretty calico studs from their stock on occasion. I think i actually gave them more than I took, all told. everybody working there seemed to have a "you have a problem" grade pet habit. I didn't even have hardly any snakes or anything then.
Apologies. Took me a while. Actual mice. Not computer mice. Nice.-
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#24I brought my wife and then 4 year old daughter to what was basically a two month, all expenses paid road trip throughout half the country. We got some of the best food from each state, and the teachers I trained made sure we didn't end up in tourist traps. My wife and I probably gained about 10 kg by the end of those two months.
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Congrats on being the blatantly clear winner of this thread and for forcing me to consider what I would/could do with an infinite supply of mice. Curious to know how many mice you availed of during your time?
i had a line of fancy mice for a while there, I'd borrow pretty calico studs from their stock on occasion. I think i actually gave them more than I took, all told. everybody working there seemed to have a "you have a problem" grade pet habit. I didn't even have hardly any snakes or anything then.
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#26Working at Microsoft in the late 1990s with the creators of MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Typescript/C#, and Visual Basic was unique and definitely the best perk imaginable.
Went into computers instead - fell back on architecture+tech...
Worked on big project and had to fly to a meeting in LA to meet with the Architect... Frank Gehry.
(I used to be on the same pee schedule as Andy Grove (we never spoke))
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#27Working at Microsoft in the late 1990s with the creators of MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Typescript/C#, and Visual Basic was unique and definitely the best perk imaginable.
I dropped out of school ambitions to be an architect, because I said there is only room for one Frank Lloyd/Gehry... I wont be working at that level... Went into computers instead - fell back on architecture+tech... Worked on big project and had to fly to a meeting in LA to meet with the Architect... Frank Gehry. (I used to be on the same pee schedule as Andy Grove (we never spoke))