There is life on the Microsoft campus

[scarlettina]

I work on the RedWest campus at Microsoft, a little, lush island of greenery several blocks away from the main campus where MSN, among other properties, is based. It's a remarkable work environment in that it is richly landscaped with flowering shrubbery and an artificial creek that follows the contours of the campus until it culminates in a waterfall and pond. One of the perks of this place is that because it's so well-cared for, it attracts a limited amount of wildlife. During the summer we had mallard ducks hanging around the pond in the picture above.

Today, the weather being fairly nice, I took a lunchtime walk around the green. The gardeners were out trimming back bushes and cleaning up detritus. Along one of the walkways, one of the gardeners turned on a power saw. Out of the bushes scampered a little brown bunny, running across the walk and off into another bank of shrubs. The little guy just disappeared—poof!—when I tried to follow his path. But there he was, and there he went.

It cheered me hugely.

Comments

[deedop.livejournal.com]

So, I keep waiting to respond to this, thinking I'm going to come up with some really clever name for the bunny, riffing off of computers and maybe the name Flopsy or Floppy or something, but I've finally given up and I think you should just name him Dennis.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Dennis the Bunny! I like it! ::grin::

[deedop.livejournal.com]

Short for Dennis Hopper, of course. :-P

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

::headdesk::

Dennis...Hopper...

Oy.

::giggle::

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

The little guy just disappeared—poof!—when I tried to follow his path. But there he was, and there he went.

Did he carry a pocketwatch? Did you hear him cry "I'm late! I'm late!" as he ran off?

And the tape went in the mail this morning.

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

Bunny!! (Don't tell Anya...) I once took a ferry from Anacortes (I think? This was almost 20 years ago) during a college-group sea kayaking expedition to the San Juan Islands. We arrived in the middle of the night, so we slept in our vans till sunrise and the first ferry. We were awoken by our leader, who poked his head in our van and loudly proclaimed, "the world is full of RABBITS!" And indeed it was. They were everywhere. Guess the ferry personnel scare away predators but leave the bunnies alone, and the bunnies do what bunnies will do.

Alice!

[ex-butterfl246.livejournal.com]

For heaven's sake, don't follow bunnies! Even brown ones!