> The weather was great (two days of sunny blue skies).
Seattle from October through January is nothing like this. I literally didn't see the sun for over 20 days straight at one point (it's foggy and rainy non-stop during the winter).
Seattle from October through January is nothing like this. I literally didn't see the sun for over 20 days straight at one point (it's foggy and rainy non-stop during the winter).
Smart-assery aside, yeah, Seattle has awesome summers, albeit mighty short some years. November comes, you better head down to the NorthFace outlet and get a GoreTex jacket or two.
Which is of course what happened -- they decided they wanted the technology and the engineering team (including me) and after some negotation got to a price that worked for everybody. Moving up to Redmond was part of the deal.
At the celebration party, people gave me various presents -- including a scuba mask, flippers, rubbers, several umbrellas...
And yeah, everything they say about the winters here is true. So please please please don't move here :)
Huh, just noticed this: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2007/11/low-hanging-late-harves...
It looks like you and I left Microsoft in the same week. Funny timing.