I miss you.

There was a point I was writing about the campaign and the work I did on it, but then I slacked off. It's been almost 6 months since the president was re-elected, but I figured I'd post another story that I haven't told ( Read more... )

Forgot to keep up this tradition. Let's fix this.

Beginning 3 days ago:
Michael Barrientos
Staff Software Engineer
Syapse
Palo Alto, CA

One day I'll go back to writing on this blog. Maybe I should offer prizes to people who comment on posts here to see if anyone is still reading it.

* It's nice seeing grandparents. Even better when you get to interview them for posterity on video.
* Now I see where Richard Powers gets the "West coast swing is danced by gray haired people" from. That said, there were a lot of people.
* Finding a Zipcar's parking spot for the first time is confusing.
* Trying to repark that Zipcar is even more ( Read more... )

Beginning 6/25 to November:

Michael Barrientos
Engineer
Obama for America
Chicago, IL

I actually wrote this shortly after my trip, but never got around to posting it.... so I'll just back date it ( Read more... )

Keeping up with an old tradition of mine....

Michael Barrientos
Senior Software Engineer
Qwhispr Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA

In the Filipino/Tagalog language class I'm taking, someone presented the song "Walang Natira" by Filipino rapper Gloc-9. It's a powerful song about the brain drain happening in the Philippines, as people emigrate to find a better life, or just live abroad while sending money back to the Philippines. The money sent back from Overseas Filipino ( Read more... )

So this will probably my first post in a long time which won't go behind my "I'm too whiny therefore it's friends only" wall ( Read more... )

It's official. I should've gone to Canada.

I've had weeks and months of fail.