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Crossposted from our Japan blog (see also my image gallery):

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Just arrived in Tokyo. We'll be blogging at http://triplehelix.org/japan/. But right now I'm going to take a shower and find something to eat.

Here's some other stuff I did so far this summer that I might have bothered blogging about, presented as a bulleted list in no particular order since there's no way to tie it together with a narrative:

• Visited San Francisco four times and Berkeley three times. Showed my cousins from the east coast around SF and Berkeley.
  
• Saw a bunch of live music:
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Field day deserves a post of its own. In case you don't know, field day is an amateur radio exercise where nerds take lots of radio equipment into a field and do an emergency drill, making gratuitous contacts with other teams for 24 hours. I was at UCSC's field day site last year too. The highlight of this year was going to be testing some of the ( Read more... )

For the past six months or so, I've been pretty unhappy with my living situation. I'd rather not go into details, but I was looking forward to moving out at some point during the summer. Our lease extends until September 1st, but my housemates wanted to extend the lease, so it seemed like it wouldn't be a problem to have someone replace me at an ( Read more... )

I had hoped to do a lot of biking this summer, because let's face it: any other activities I'd end up doing would be indoors and too likely to be computer related. So far, I haven't actually biked that much, but there's some bike-related stuff worth talking about ( Read more... )

Just before my graduation, joshuak happened to be visiting to catch my project presentation. I happened to grumble about how disillusioned I am with Linux, and how I wanted to get a Mac. This had sort of become a habit. My four year old Dell laptop was becoming so unusable that it would be easier to list the parts that aren't broken than the ones that are ( Read more... )

I'm feeling much better. I had so much to do this weekend, but against my better judgement I spent a lot of it on recreational/social activities. That helped me relax, and I didn't fall behind in my work. I'm feeling a lot more detached from school now. It's true that I'm under a lot of time pressure to finish the senior project, but on the other ( Read more... )

I guess I haven't updated in awhile. College is almost over. At least every day I oscillate between longing for the quarter to be over and feeling generally content. Just when I'm really feeling the crunch from the senior design project, the graduate class I'm taking is starting to take even more of my time. I've definitely never worked this hard ( Read more... )