Today our Autodesk office in the Portland area was selected as a stop for the Snuggle Express by the Oregon Humane Society. What this meant was we had a room filled with puppies and kittens to snuggle with. What a great idea to get people interested in adopting…
Read MoreIt is amazing how online retailers are becoming so immediate in fulfilling your order. It used to be you could order something from Amazon.com and get it in 2 days free with Prime and that was almost enough of a gratification if you couldn’t find the goods at…
Read MoreIt’s not what you think, I promise. What I did was spear trash and recycle it in rural Bali. I am currently working in Bali Indonesia on a special project with an Australian colleague Brett Casson and a few other people, and not on a vacation unfortunately. We…
Read MoreIn honor of the national Kale Day I am sharing my latest smoothie recipe – Kale Yeah! For the past few years I have used a NutriBullet blender to grind fresh organic vegetables and fruit into healthy goodness but sometimes taste is not the top concern. My current…
Read MoreFor the past four days I have been enjoying a trip to Utah with my girlfriend Amy to visit my mother, my 3 kids, and some friends. It was so great to visit with friends and family but also get to show Amy around a place she had…
Read MoreI will never forget many years ago flying into Portland International Airport and seeing the iconic and sometimes visually loud carpet. Over the past 20 some odd years flying into the airport I always felt fairly nostalgic when seeing it and actually looked at carpets in airports around…
Read MoreBack in May Autodesk employees in teams of 7 started the competition in step counts internally among 406 teams and tens of thousands of other teams from other companies in the Global Corporate Challenge. This was the second year for me as team leader for the OCTO (Office…
Read MoreSolidWorks 95 from the mid 1990’s and developed for the mighty Windows 95 platform. I have this package and CDROM in my collection of classic computer design tools. While this is not an Autodesk developed tool it is a classic for some in the mechanical engineering and design…
Read MoreThe Everhart Museum currently has an exhibition on Prohibition and has included the infamous Engineers Guide to Drinks Drawing framed on the wall. I will be releasing the 3D DWG version of this drawing very soon thanks to the hard work of a volunteer named Robert Lupo. The…
Read MoreLast year at Autodesk University 2014 we had the MegaBots team modify their big paintball firing robot arm to fire tee-shirts out into the audience using compressed air. A couple of the shirts were a rare shirt with an image of Autodesk President, CEO, and our Chief Maker…
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