Day 1 + 2

So James (I guess you could call him my boss) e-mails me yesterday wondering if I would like to blog about my experience while at HP. I thought this was an excellent idea. I had thought about doing it before I started here, but got so caught up in getting started that I forgot about it.

I really enjoyed reading Wyatt's Blog while he was in New York at his internship. So, I will try to do the same.

So, this being the third day of my internship, I need to catch you up on the first two days...

Day One was great.

I got settled in with my ID badge (with awesome photo...all you can tell is that I'm a white guy) and my cubicle. Man cubicles suck. They are so boring! Plus, we are designers. Why is the design team separated into little boxes. We need to be in a studio environment where we can actually work as a team. (Ok, first rant, done).








Went to a meeting about some super cool stuff I know you want to know about, but I probably shouldn't tell you about (I'm sure there will be a lot of that).


Had lunch with James and Belgie down in the cafeteria. The food is decent. I mean, it does the job. If you're hungry, you eat it. And, it's pretty reasonably priced (which is something I wasn't expecting).


Went to another meeting. This time, staff meeting. It's for the Designers. It happens every Monday. This is where everyone catches up to speed on everything that is going on.


Back to my cubicle. Slit my rist (only kidding). I'm probably going to be making a lot of corporate world office jokes, and I may seem like I'm having a terrible time, but so far, that is not the case. I actually think I am going to like it here. I just like to comment on the guy who sits by himself at lunch looking completely miserable, thinking "God, I hate my life". I don't want to be that guy.


One super cool project they have me working on is a hardware + software project. It's kind of like a "My First Server". Say you had a small office or even wanted to have a server at your home, this would be the product for you. You could share files and backup to it, and hopefully access it from anywhere in the world. Now, I'll be talking about my thoughts on this as I go on, but already, I think corporate is going down the wrong path. They want it to be very server like, but I really see it as a consumer product. The person buying this isn't going to have any real knowledge of servers. It needs to be completely intuitive and hassle-free. Anyway, more to come on that as we go on. So, I'm super excited about this project.

Day Two...

Now, I'm not much of a writer, so bear with me. And, why is it that Windows doesn't have spell check? That's another thing. I'm totally a member/follower of the Cult of Mac, however, being that I am working for the largest computer company in the world, I'm stuck with their computers, which happen to run Windoze. I'm ok with that. However, I have my Mac and I'm not affraid to use it.

Yesterday, I whipped it out to do a bit of saladworking (Solidworks). We do have the Adobe CS4 suite on our workstations, but it's still Windows. I just feel so lost and unproductive in this OS.














Thanks to a very special lady friend of mine for giving me this sweet bottle for me to sip on cold water all day...