Working for Microsoft requires a level of commitment not found in many other jobs, which means tendering your resignation should be an equally grand gesture.
Karen Chang decided to write and perform a song as her "letter" of resignation, sung to the tune of American Pie by Don McLean. Watch her kiss those "long, long lines of code" goodbye with a sweet acoustic serenade.
--via Geeks Are Sexy
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I wish I could have dumped my old job without bitter memories.
I guess going from corporate banking to web design doesn't leave much of a buffer zone.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~markwrede/NonFic/PerennialMystery.html
Anyway, the SPS from UTexas did a lot of work on this a couple years back, and some of it is published here:
http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v77/i8/p697_s1?isAuthorized=no
It explains well why they can't be seen close-up. Personally, I'd love to see them if I were in the area...meteorological phenomena are awesome!