You lucky bastard. You deserve it. Hope all goes well with the probationary period.
Wonder if they are still using our risk management templates
But do you get to blow stuff up? Crash cars? Shoot guns? Kill Buster? ::froth::
That is WAY cool. Congrats!
So in other words, we can expect a lot of threads from you in the future that read like “does anybody have a '79 Camaro, an albatross, and a linear accelerator”?
Hmmm. Now that you mention it…
Albatross! Get Your Albatross Here!
CONGRATULATIONS! But, you likely don’t want to move to San Franscisco itself. Very very expensive, and little to be found. Many cities nearby, including South San Fransciso are much cheaper.
Yeah, but then you’d have to live in South San Francisco. 
Q.E.D., I’m so happy for you AND for Mythbusters! It’s about time they had someone to keep them honest. You could live in Coopertino where Hewlett-Packard lives, It’s a little cheaper than in town. Or, any of the hundred little towns between SF and San Jose.
The linear accelerator is just west of Stanford.
And 280 passes right over it. Looks like a long self-store place to the uninitiated.
Meanwhile, if you need any of these somewhat unusual items, I’m sure we can arrange a loan…
Trebuchet
Allegedly beta-test golf balls
The laser assembly from a laser printer (the lenses inside are somewhat reminiscent of Jamie’s mustache)
A two-plus year old pecan log
A 19-year old Halon fire extinguisher
And thousands of expired or locked passwords.
And that’s just the wierd stuff near my desk!
You use the trebuchet to fling bits of two-year-old pecan log at people who forget their passwords, right?
Gross! I’d rather be in Petaluma. Or Hayward.
Man, I need a shower now…
Great news! Now I can say I (sorta) knew you way back when…
DON’T SIGN TILL YOU’VE GIVEN THE CONTRACT TO A LAWYER TO LOOK OVER.
Just because I know you, I’ll do this one free. Scan the thing in and send it over to me. I’ll check it out and mebbe suggest a few things. I should have it back to you in, oooh, about two weeks.
That should give me enough time. Where’s the whiteout? I’ll just cross that out, write “Princhester” in there…
Like everyone else has said: congrats! That’s so cool. I look forward to hearing when your work makes it to air.
Hmmm… I *like * that idea! Unfortunately, it’s hard to do any physical flinging through email.
What scares me is that the pecan log is just as soft and semi-edible-looking as the day I got it. Apparently, we need to worry more about pecan logs than the classic never-goes-bad food: fruitcake.
There’s a myth to bust - that there’s really only one fruitcake and it’s been passed along from person to person all these years.
A silly song that’s now stuck in my head:
Oh-ohh!
What in the world am I going to do with this fruit cake?
It’s made of all those squishy things that I would never eat!
I wish there was a special place for fruit cake.
And the people that send fruit cake to me.
I personally have consumed a total of more than one fruitcake in my life. Myth busted!
For all we know, there may be as many as a dozen fruitcakes in circulation.
My father, for reasons best left unquestioned, likes fruitcake. So he’s a fruitcake sink. Of, so far, undetermined capacity.
Congratulations! That is indeed very cool news!
Whoever supplies the guns for that show (Jamie?) is obviously a Military Firearm fan… I’ve seen them using M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, and (I think) a Springfield M1903A3 (amongst others). I live in hope that one day they’ll decide to use an SMLE Mk III or a No 4 Mk I Lee-Enfield in something, though…
So what sort of research will you be doing, or can’t you say at this early stage?
Forgot to say earlier, that f you need a room full of ATMs, perhaps to test out various methods of fraud or whatever, I might be able to finagle something. I doubt any have cash, but it is a bit startling to look through the window on the lab’s door and see dozens of the things.