Categories Funny

Congratulation to Donnie and Helen Gladfelter

This will surely brighten anyone’s day! Some of us take our love of Autodesk products to the extreme in fact I have seen wedding proposals and invitations made in AutoCAD.  It was great to see my friend Donnie Gladfelter (aka The CADGeek) become a new parent along with…

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Categories Autodesk

100 Days of GCC 2015

Autodesk participates in the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) with hundreds of employee teams competing internally and against other companies and the perfect side effect of getting more fit. This GCC 2015 is my third year participating and last year our team made 11th place within Autodesk as Team…

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Categories Misc.

Be Safe This Weekend

It is Memorial Day weekend in the United States which kicks off Summer. Sadly it also is the start of more traffic accidents and many related to long holiday drives while tired. Please, if you are driving long distances this weekend stop and take resets and arrive alive.…

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Categories Misc.

High Tech Venus Flytrap

Today I received an update notice for the Adobe Flash Player (and I had thought Flash was dead and still look forward to that day) but I noticed something that could cause come serious system issues if you don’t pay close attention to what Adobe set as a…

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Categories Maker

May the 4th Be With You

Today May 4th is a day that Star Wars fans celebrate the iconic science fiction movie series as “May the 4th” a play on the Star Wars saying “May the Force be With You.” My fellow Autodesk (OCTO) team member Evan Atherton recently produced a great Star Wars…

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Categories Misc.

Please Help Nepal

Namaste One of the largest recorded earthquakes just occurred in Nepal at 7.8 and thousands have died, many missing and millions are in need of the world’s assistance. If you have the ability to help Nepal recover, please do. To my fellow Autodesk employees, please check the matching…

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Categories Hardware

Explore Science Contest

Would you like to win a airborne UAV or a underwater OpenROV submersible robot to go exploring with? You have the chance to with a recent Explore Science contest being held by Instructables and OpenExplorer. "Scientific breakthroughs make the world a better place. After all, where would we…

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Categories Misc.

Happy Chinese New Year 恭禧發財

To my friends and colleagues in China: Gong Hey Fat Choy! 恭禧發財 It is now the Year of the Goat! I seen remnants of firecrackers in San Francisco Chinatown during my morning run. I do hope the firecrackers and alcohol are plentiful again tonight.

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