señor taco’s travels » Pixar http://danimal.org/SenorTaco rolling through the journey that is life Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:32:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 It can be fun when new things appear at work… http://danimal.org/SenorTaco/2007/10/04/it-can-be-fun-when-new-things-appear-at-work/ http://danimal.org/SenorTaco/2007/10/04/it-can-be-fun-when-new-things-appear-at-work/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:54:05 +0000 Dan http://danimal.org/SenorTaco/2007/10/04/it-can-be-fun-when-new-things-appear-at-work/ I am very thankful I’ve worked someplace other than Pixar. It really makes me appreciate how good our working conditions are. Take today for example. Today this fine espresso machine was installed in our building.

New Espresso machine @ work

I will use it I’m sure to brew up some fine liquid concoctions. Also today O was thrown for a bit of a loop when I opened up the fridge to grab a soda1 and what should be there. Nectar of the divine rendered human.

Good day at work?

That’s probably just someone trying to get rid of it. They normally only have beer at work on Friday at Beer Bash in the evening.

Footnotes:
  1. Yes, I am bad and drinking sodas right now.
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© Copyright 2007 Disney-Pixar

I can’t wait to see more stuff come out.

(Via Upcoming Pixar.)

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Nameplate on my cube

Now I just need to figure out how to tastefully and reversibly make it say “Dan.” Darn those legal names. I kind of wish they had asked what name I wanted to go by. I got the computer database changed so that’s a step. Oh well, I could have worse things to complain about.

And now back to the bug hunting.

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