Studs from Microsoft!

Ages ago, a friend of mine lent me a stack of ten or so CDs; with what I know now, I think they were probably from an MSDN subscription.

I think one of them had the Japanese version of MS-DOS, which I tried out for a day or two (and used EDLIN for probably the only time, to modify autoexec.bat, since EDIT.COM didn't work under my configuration due to the fact that the Japanese version of MS-DOS appeared to run in graphics mode).

Another had a video clip called Studs from Microsoft; I remember that I could either (a) listen to the dialogue or (b) watch the video (with something like 1 fps or so), but not both, since my machine (a 486SX-25) was simply too slow to handle that.

Every once in a while, I'd wish I could find that video again, but since I didn't remember the name (only the rough plot), nor where I had seen it, I thought it was a lost cause.

However, recently Raymond Chen (?) posted an entry in his blog The Old New Thing titled "Studs from Microsoft"—and it even include a link to the video clip of the sketch! Whee!

Go take a look at it. It's a parody of dating games, featuring three super-stereotyped Microsoft programmers and two unfortunate women.

Amy is patient

Amy seems to be becoming more and more patient—which is handy, of course.

For example, she'll wait in her high chair for us to make her some slices of bread, and she'll wait (a short while) for Mummy to come back into the room.

She's also much more willing to let herself be put back in bed when she wakes up at night… the few times I went to her, I took her out and held her in front of my chest with her head on my shoulder while I stroked her back for a minute or so, then I laid her back in her bed and stroked her back a bit more. She didn't seem completely happy, but doesn't put up a fuss, either—and I presume she falls asleep fairly quickly once I leave the room.

She used to have to be rocked and sung to sleep (if I was there) or demanded to nurse (if Stella was), though she'd end up just lying there and not actually drinking most of the time. I'm glad she's a bit more independent in that respect; makes life easier for us.

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