General Things Inc
Carlo’s new iMac arrived, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to give him a pretty ridiculous awesome set-up. Brand new 27″ iMac, 24″ Dell monitor, old iMac, iPad 2, Macbook Pro. Oh, picture taken with an iPhone 4.
Overindulgent? No. We’ll call it “productivity at its best.” See the photo after the jump.
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Microsoft has apparently made the original Richard Feynman Messenger Lectures at Cornell available to all at a site called Project Tuva. We are big fans of Feynman here at General Things; one of our office dogs is named Feynman (the other is named Madame Wu, who unfortunately isn’t quite as widely-celebrated a scientist, but is nevertheless a legend n her own right). The Microsoft site is in Siverlight, so you’ll need that to watch it, but it’s worth it; Feynman was an amazing man.
I really wish I had written this. In my eyes, The Solver’s Manifesto is a great description of what it takes to run a tech consulting company such as General Things. When people ask me what we do at here, I always stumble a bit, mostly because we do so many things, and it’s hard to wrap that up into a succinct Twitter pitch. But everything we do comes down to one thing: solving problems across a wide variety of disciplines.
We’ve moved into our new offices at 2 Sumner St. We’ve renovated a former sound recording studio, complete with a dance floor, stage lighting, and a disco ball. Yes, we have more fun at work than you do.
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