For the next month, Seattle is having its annual International Film Festival. About 200 movies, from 62 countries. Some of them are really, really good. Usually on Rottentomatoes, movies rarely make over 80%; some of these movies have a perfect 100%. Some good ones that might/will make it to the big screen — at least the ones that are playing now — are:

  • The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
  • A Prairie Home Companion (100%)
  • Life With My Father (100%)
  • Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas

I saw Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas last night. It was hilarious.. can't wait for it to be in wide release. The best part is, it was only made on a budget of $1,000,000.

In the car ride back, I was sitting with three interns. I started talking to the guy next to me and found out that he and the driver were both from Duke (much to my disappointment.. jk). He also knew a lot of people from Science and Math. THEN he realized that one of our mutual friends had shown him this blog after he got into Microsoft. Crazy…

During the convo, when I was asked if anyone else from Chapel Hill was interning at MS, I said — not really, but I know someone from last summer who's interning at MS. When asked if I was a second-time MS intern, I said no.. but this guy was from IBM. The guy next to me pointed to the intern in the passenger's seat and said that he interned at IBM too, but was a "speedy" intern, meaning that he was probably on a Speed Team. So I started talking to him and when I told him I worked in Austin last summer, he said that his Speed Team in Rochester spent a lot of the summer integrating with a team in Austin. Weird. I asked him what he did, and what the team in Austin did. When he told me, my jaw almost hit the floor.

This guy worked with our team last summer. I even talked to him on the phone several times last summer but never even saw his face. He and his teammates spent a ton of time communicating with our team. It was fun talking about last summer (I told him how much we cursed his team for their requirements) and I headed back home.

I got in a car and out of the 1500 interns at MS, I happened to have an indirect connection to all 3 of them. Small World.