I found out yesterday that I'm giving a (15min) talk to hundreds of people tomorrow. The person who was going to give the talk came back sick from a vacation, so I'm taking over. I've been scrambling to get slides together and prepare what I'm going to say. I'm always nervous about public speaking, but it usually goes okay as long as I've ( Read more... )

Funny in a cultural-reference word-play sort of way:
http://www.fwfr.com/tops.asp?mode=att
From The four word film review.

My laptop hard drive finally died. No data loss since I was expecting it to happen. I just got the replacement in the mail today, but I need to find my windows cds to do the re-install. I started to clean my room a bit, but so far no luck.

Presumably everyone has already noticed the satellite link on Google maps. Some cool locations:
Matrix Reloaded highway
nuclear testing in Nevada
Black Rock City, just before a Burning Man
B52s
Others can be found at Google Sightseeing.

Someone else figured out how to combine craigslist and mapsWish I could say I had something to do with any of ( Read more... )

But I got it back fine, thanks to eisenbud -- who got home 1 hour later because of me... Still (most of) the process went smoothly. This confirms my impression that one has to be very careful when parking in SF.

Drove up from LA. Tried to take 5 which turned out to be a mistake (closed due to snow). Didn't route around it properly, so my normally 6 hour drive took 10. A few notable events ( Read more... )

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(Yes, this entry is a week late)

I played in a puzzle hunt last weekend, and had a great time. The only tricky bit was getting there -- I'm not very familiar with the Stanford campus and my directions told me to go down a street that was blocked off. Anyway, they posted the puzzles which I thought were fun. There were a couple not listed: like ( Read more... )

[ag]'s love seat has finally died, so I'm going to order another Foof chair. The only question is what color: Saddle Tan, Lipstick Red (what I currently have), Black, or Chocolate? See color samples here. So all you arm-chair interior decorators out there, tell me what color to order.

I went with [ag] and his mother's extended family to the Renaissance Faire in Casa de Fruita last Saturday. I got to see a bunch of dancers (including x_rumor_x and threadwalker). They were everywhere, which was a pleasant surprise since I didn't expect to know many people. As it was, between [ag] and his family singing, chatting, and doing the standard faire things ( Read more... )