and Words
We′ve been seeing what you wanted, got us cornered right now
Fallen asleep from our vanity, might cost us our lives
I hear they’re getting closer
Their howls are sending chills down my spine
And time is running out now
They′re coming down the hills from behind
When we start killing
It’s all coming down right now
From the nightmare we’ve created
I want to be awakened somehow (I want to be awakened right now)
When we start killing, it all will be falling down
From the hell that we′re in
All we are is fading away
When we start killing
Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.
I joined Microsoft in 1991. I started in the Multimedia team. At the time, computers with sound cards and optical drives were fancy. However, they were standard equipment on our computers, along with the ‘large’ 200MB hard drives. Other teams envied our team for the sheer coolness of our work. I arrived at the tail end of Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions. I started as an STE (Software Test Engineer); I manually verified that the product worked as expected. This team brought audio to Windows; it started with Windows 3.1.
Over the years, my role in the audio team changed. I transitioned to an SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to Development and back to SDET. I contributed to every version of Windows, from 3.1 to 7, as an audio engineer. Even today, I understand many parts of that code. I spent way too many hours debugging intricate idiosyncrasies about that source code. To this day, I still tell people, “If you’re listening to any audio on Windows, you’re running code that I wrote.”