Posted by Cottontimer on 07 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Career, Me
As promised, my company profile is up. Go have a laugh.
Thank goodness everyone looks good in pictures as small as 72×99 pixels. Or not. You may disagree.
Posted by Cottontimer on 02 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Career, Me
My sister helped me take a few profile pics this morning for my company website and this one didn’t make the cut. When the one I did choose goes up, I’ll let you all know so you can have a good laugh.
Posted by Cottontimer on 17 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Me
Posted by Cottontimer on 14 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: London, Me, Shopping
My monthly personalized coupons from Sainsbury’s supermarket arrived today. Not only did I get six with my name on it, I was mistakenly sent another six for a Miss A.T. What do the different offers tell you about our shopping habits?
For Mrs. H Lei:
For Miss A.T.:
These coupons tell me that Miss A.T. makes a lot of sandwich lunches with a piece of fruit included. She makes so many of these sandwiches that she has to buy £80 before she gets triple reward points.
In contrast, my own coupons show that we buy quite a bit of prepared meals (most are actually pre-marinated, uncooked meat). And, we’re not big shoppers at Sainsbury’s because of the lower purchase amount needed to receive triple reward points. Makes sense because we do 1/4 to 1/3 of our weekly grocery purchases at Marks & Spencer.
What do your personalized shopping coupons say about you?
Posted by Cottontimer on 06 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Funny, Me
I haven’t had hair like this for about 15 years and I doubt I ever will again. Don’t miss it one bit!
Created with Makeover Studio
via Photojojo
Posted by Cottontimer on 05 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: California, Career, Me
My parents, my sister, and I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the second half of my fifth grade year. I moved away in 1994 to go to grad school, but my sister and her husband plus my parents and most of my close friends remain in the area. Some live and work in the heart of Silicon Valley and others nearby.
For a long time, I thought I would move back someday, somehow. This past Spring, we almost did when there was a strong promise of a job for me. But after talking to Marv, we decided that this wasn’t the time to return even if Silicon Valley feels like the center of the world (at least for my area of expertise - genomics and the Web).
Today’s NY Times article further confirmed our decision not to move back.
In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich
No one knows for certain how many single-digit millionaires live in Silicon Valley. Certainly their numbers reach into the tens of thousands, say those who work with the area’s engineers and entrepreneurs. Yet nearly all of them still have all-consuming jobs, not only because the work gives them a sense of achievement and satisfaction but also because they think they must work so much to afford their gilded neighborhoods.
Marv and I have a good life even though we live in London, UK, also one of the most expensive cities in the world.* Granted, we’re business expats so needn’t worry about some basic needs like housing, car, etc. Even more important, we’re able to save money for Stephen’s college education and still enjoy our life of books, video games, and toys. I’m sure we could do the same in the Bay Area made all the easier because we’d be with family and friends but my biggest worry is: I’m not sure I could resist joining in the chase.
Umberto Milletti of InsideView:
Here, the top 1 percent chases the top one-tenth of 1 percent, and the top one-tenth of 1 percent chases the top one-one-hundredth of 1 percent.
For now, I’ll enjoy watching the race from the sidelines. It’s a lot more comfortable here in my dining room next to the River Thames. Thank goodness for the Internet! We’re so far, yet still so close.
*Moscow has London beat, though!
Posted by Cottontimer on 10 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Career, Funny, Me
Scott Adams in The Dilbert Blog says:
ROUNDERS: This group rounds things off. A problem that’s a two on a scale of one to ten gets rounded to zero. If a rounder has five problems that are all about a two on a scale of one to ten, he’ll tell you he has no problems.
That’s me. Blinders on. Head in the sand. 
Scott also hands out an assignment:
Your assignment for today is to describe your own job in one sentence, preferably in a humorously derogatory way.
This is mine:
It’s my job to make a big deal out of nothing.
~Hsien, biotech commentator and consultant
What’s your job description? (Don’t miss the reader responses to this at The Dilbert Blog.)
Posted by Cottontimer on 09 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Funny, Me
And if that didn’t scare you enough, maybe this one will.
Created by cameroid.
NB: New profile pics also created using cameroid.
Posted by Cottontimer on 27 May 2007 | Tagged as: Knick Knacks, Me
An image of Pu Hsien P’usa: Samantabhadra Bodhisattva* found via a Google Image Search for “hsien” rendered by Toogle in text for “hsien.” Did that make any sense at all?
*Pu Hsien represents love, sacred activity, virtue, diligent training and patience. Yet another misrepresentation of my character.
via Neatorama
Posted by Cottontimer on 23 May 2007 | Tagged as: Me
Every company needs a Hsien.
Too bad there’s only one of me around.
That’s an excerpt from a LinkedIn recommendation William so generously wrote for me. Thank you, William!! You totally made my day.
For more awesome slogans generated by Sloganizer, don’t forget to look at the top of the middle column of Cottontimer.com. As I type this, it says, “Go to heaven with Cottontimer.” Nobody said it was accurate….
NB: To see my complete LinkedIn profile, create your own account then contact me so we can get connected.
