gave a talk today on my project at Cisco, looks like my manager and most of my team are totally crazy about me... ttt (manager's manager) wants me to re-give the talk to a bigger crowd next week, i guess that's cool? also, only two more weeks in cali! of which almost half will be in SF, w00t! i miss pgh WAY too much right now ( Read more... )

oh man i love san francisco, wanna hear a funny story (or two ( Read more... )

holly crap tiesto was amazing ( Read more... )

I'll send this out in an e-mail to non-LJ types soon, but meanwhile...

ANSWER is organizing another large scale protest in DC on Sept 15th. Please make it out, there are no excuses for missing this kind of thing. If you need a place to stay near DC I will gladly accomodate you and even feed you. If you already live in NOVA, you have even less ( Read more... )

sanJose++ today for having a simply wonderful sunset, wish i had watched more of it tonight ( Read more... )

go israel, finally doing something right

also, if you haven't yet (and i doubt you have), try to watch Avenge but One of My Two Eyes by Avi Mograbi, it really helps put some things in perspective. also having him stay up and talk to us in mcconomy was way cool ( Read more... )

Hiroki Mori has an excellent website that teaches the basics of Go, and also has 3 really hard problems. (Linked to from this /. article) (also this site, but i haven't played with it yet nvm, the ai is dumb)

sunshine, i miss our games

for those in the bay area: Anoushka Shankar is playing at stern grove on sunday, anyone else want to come?

for those not: :P you're missing out

who the hell thought it was a good idea to put a fuel depot at the end of a runway?

*sigh*

finally convinced myself to actually print out the sea shepherd application, but now i'm worried, do i send it in asap (like this week) so they it get it earlier? or i do i wait until later in the semester when i'll hopefully have some useful skills to show them like EMS and ham?

does it even matter? i mean.. it is just a bunch of hippies saving ( Read more... )