Ryan Gardner on December 12th, 2005

Survivor season 11 is finally over - and we have a winner. Prior to the start of this season, you will recall that we ran our “Pick the winner from the Photographs (and bios) Alone” contest. Here’s the results from that contest:
Predictions from September 15th
Ryan: Originally predicted Gary or Judd. Later on that day, [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 8th, 2005

Only valid for 12/11/05. Includes desktops, notebooks, Apple products, TVs, PDAs, cameras, etc.
Of course, you might realize that is a Sunday - and many people in Utah don’t shop on Sunday. Fortunately, the good guys at CompUSA have got your back - and have the same offer for us living in Utah for December [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 8th, 2005

Apple decided early on that it would be worth their while to protect the ROM of the Macintosh. Steve decided that if a company copied the Mac ROM into their computer, he would like to be able to do a demo during the trial, where he could type a few keystrokes into an unmodified infringing [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 7th, 2005

Yesterday as I left Building 19, I wasn’t really sure what was going to happen. I knew that I answered all of my interview questions pretty well - but you really receive no feedback along the way so you can’t be sure what’s going on.
After the fact, I thought more about it and I [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 6th, 2005

I just got out of my first interview here, and while my interviewer is writing up his review of what he thought of me I figured I would post a brief update.
Today I am interviewing with the Office Graphics group, and the Sharepoint group. The first person that I met with was the lead program [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 6th, 2005

I’m on my way to Microsoft… wish me luck If I get a chance, I might post an update or two throughout the day.

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Ryan Gardner on December 5th, 2005

USA Today has your first look at photos from 20th Century Fox’s X-Men 3, coming to theaters on May 26, 2006. X-Men 3 is being created by a different director, and includes some new characters.
If someone wants to go stand in line now for tickets, pick one up for me too
See the images [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 3rd, 2005

Perhaps you are lucky enough to have had a “Creamie” - it’s a frozen treat that is similar to a fudgesicle in texture (but available in many flavors). Around Christmas time, they make an “Egg nog” Creamie that tastes much better than you would think it should. I’m not a big fan of egg nog, [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 2nd, 2005

After my last post about my first round Microsoft screening interview, I was suprised to see that JobsBlog, Microsoft’s recruiting blog, had picked up my recap and linked to it. Good tihng I spellchecekd! Microsoft did get back to me somewhat soon after my interview, and let me know that they wanted to fly [...]

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