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I didn’t travel nearly as much this year as I did last year (and still far behind some other lucky people), but many experiences were had. The list below consists of the cities in which I spent at least one night during the year 2008. Santa Clarita, CA Walnut Creek, CA Emeryville, CA Austin, TX [...]

The East Bay is the area on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. The general feeling of the East Bay is very mixed, but overall relaxed. A lot of the bustle of San Francisco is lost across the bridge and there is some stale hippie culture lingering in Berkeley that probably makes its [...]

Here’s my tentative SXSW 2008 daytime schedule. It was put together using SXSW’s calendar feature, but it wasn’t very helpful. Mostly just a bunch of copy/pasting and HTML munging. Someone should really do an awesome conference scheduling web app with block layout visualization, conflict management, preferred speakers, etc. My favorite or “can’t miss” sessions are [...]

Following Ted following Kottke following Hanna, here is the list of cities in which I spent at least one night in 2007: San Diego, CA Richardson, TX Vancouver, BC Malibu, CA Santa Clarita, CA Fallon, NV Carpinteria, CA Sunnyvale, CA Mountain View, CA Big Sur, CA Woodland Hills, CA Kennedy Meadows, CA San Francisco, CA [...]

One of the most frustrating aspects of driving in the US is the utter lack of understanding and attention paid to the simple rule: “Slower traffic keep right.” It’s not a difficult rule to follow and many drivers in many other countries seem to live quite successfully by this rule. The left lane is not [...]

I had a computer science instructor at UCSD who imparted some simple advice on those who cared to listen: Don’t do just one thing in life; do as much as you can. Teaching the fundamentals of computer organization and systems programming was this instructor’s fifth major career and he claimed to have no regrets about [...]

I arrived in Seattle today to find sunny weather and a pleasant temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit. I was surprised, as this weather is expected more in San Diego than in this stereotypically rainy city. I moved my small amount of stuff into my new place, which is quaint. I then went downtown to take [...]

For some reason I felt like adding some pictures. I have a bunch of drafts saved up that aren’t quite ready for publishing. I think there will be a flurry of posts after this midterm stuff is over.