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Smoke and spices

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

So it’s gotten pretty smoky here in San Jose from the wildfires up north. According to the FAA, this is causing delays of 1.5 hours at the San Jose airport. So keep your fingers crossed that everything clears up by Saturday at noon, because otherwise I’m going to have a really sucky day [...]

West coast pontifications

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Before I left Atlanta, I made several goals for this trip:

Learn stuff.
Eat Vietnamese food.
Visit our Santa Clara datacenter (turns out this won’t happen because our Santa Clara datacenter flooded on Monday).
Eat good sushi.
Stick my toes in the Pacific Ocean.
Go to a coffee shop in San Francisco.
Drive on the Pacific Coast highway.
Relax and not think about [...]

Tales from Silicon Valley

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Greetings from the nerdiest city in the US!
Ok, so I haven’t been everywhere so I guess I can’t really claim that San Jose is the nerdiest city. However, the fact that there are posters of network devices in the San Jose airport leads me to believe that San Jose’s inhabitants are on the whole [...]

California Love

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Had planned to review the two movies I’ve seen in the past week (The Happening and Get Smart), but Josh and I got back from Six Flags a little while ago and I’m pooped. The Internet paid for everyone to go–they even paid for parking and food. I’ve decided this is pretty much [...]

Old nonsense, far away nonsense, and workplace nonsense

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

So I managed to import all of my old blog entries from my Blogspot blog. I’m in the process of recategorizing all of them so that you could click and essentially read through my old blog (not that anyone has that much free time or hates themselves enough to read through all that drivel). [...]

File under “Thoughts, disjointed”

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

People who say “vee-hickle” really bother me.
Going to California alone will be very boring, now that my boss has quit.
The MIA song “Paper Planes” makes me sad for some reason.
I’m not sure what I expected about being grown up, but so far this is not it.
150cc on the new Mariokart is hard. And playing [...]

Some of us take coffee very seriously

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Thanks to Tracey for pointing me here. I hung this up in our breakroom yesterday:

So far it’s not working very well. I’m still finding empty coffee pots that people are not refilling. Motherflippin’ TIGERS, people. FEAR THEM.

The age of Aquarius

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I use the personalized Google page as my browser homepage. One of my widgets is a National Geographic picture of the day. One day last week, I opened Firefox to see this (click to enlarge):

My picture of the day was of the legs of Aquarius, where I did a lot of diving back [...]

My addiction and kimchi by the bulk

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

So you may have noticed that I’ve really broken my streak in the past week. There is one simple reason for it. It’s called Mariokart for the Nintendo Wii. Josh picked it up for me last week, and I’ve been glued to it since. Here’s a rundown on what I haven’t [...]

It’s not you, it’s me. And your Nutter Butters.

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

So I’m a big fan of blood donation. I try to donate whenever I can, but thanks to the occasional bad iron count it doesn’t always end up being that frequent. So tonight when I got to the gym today and saw the blood drive bus out front, I was excited.
Now, I have [...]

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