Things I've done in the past few days:

• Picked up Nikki (and her a terrified cat, Oscar) from the airport. Another newly-minted San Franciscan! A few hours later, Raber and Clara joined us.
• Bought a ticket to Chicago, November 16-18! I'm coming for a few tech recruitment events (that
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• I am going to try out not having a car. Between the time and frustration spent finding parking, the expense of insurance, gas, and maintenance (about $2500/year!), and the environmental impact (yep, I'm a San Franciscan!), I've decided to go car-free. Once Raber and Clara leave at the end of next weekend, I'll park the trusty Camry over at Mom and ( Read more... )

Friends in Chicago and on the East Coast, you have done a remarkably good job of visiting me,
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Many of you are familiar, some intimately, with the phenomenon of San Francisco fog. As the rest of the region basks in beautiful mid-eighties sunny days, the fair City by the Bay is enshrouded nearly daily by an enormous cotton-candy fluff of clouds that just love to bring the temperature down a good twenty-five degrees or so. I'm fond of saying ( Read more... )

Now with an ETA below!

I'm sitting in bed. A foamcore-mounted Ansel Adams print of a Yosemite waterfall is lying askew in the blue chair next to my bed, just about how I left it when I brought it in off the street on Thursday. I've got three weeks' worth of clothes neatly folded in bags on the floor, thanks to a trip home last night that started out ( Read more... )

60,000 leap into Bay to Breakers: Giddy footrace has usual nudity, beer -- and serious athletes


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Fun trip to Montreal, Boston, and Chicago. As anotherthink mentioned, the theme of the trip was, "I'm looking forward to regretting this," a phrase we saw on some man's t-shirt on the McGill campus.

I'll try to compose something thoughtful and inspiring and amusing on the plane.

But first. Holy shit.


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Ashley and I discovered today that every 90-degree corner in my apartment is magnetic. I guess that they used some sort of metal reinforcement on the corners that's soft magnetic (like a refrigerator door). Every single 90-degree corner is like this -- I'm only beginning to imagine the possibilities of putting colored gels over the windows, ( Read more... )

I booked travel yesterday for a trip to Boston, Montréal, and Chicago! Here's the itin:

Wednesday, April 18: Fly to Boston, arrive early evening. Hopefully jigsawjazz shows up too! Stay with anotherthink and talentedmrraberThursday, April 19: Afternoon/evening road trip to Montréal! Debauched weekend, Québec style ( Read more... )

New apartment! New team at work! There's a lot changing.

The new place is so sweet. It's like living in a treehouse, if a treehouse came with a pot rack and granite counters and a view of Sutro Tower and a shuttle to work two blocks away. My roommate Chris is a brand-new Googler, my other roommate Aaron is a web personality at Technorati. Photos ( Read more... )