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Three month retrospective: Part I
I am long overdue for a blog post, and by now I have enough material for several. I'll start by backtracking to May.
The month began with my 23rd birthday. At Friday Night Waltz that evening I didn't get an official birthday dance, but Bob roped a few people such as John and Tracey into giving me an informal birthday dance during one of the waltzes ( Read more... ) -
April Fools' Day at Google
1. Gmail Custom Time: Be on time. Every time.
2. Wake-Up Kit: Wake yourself up.
3. "I'm Feeling Lucky" button for Calendar
4. Book Search - Scratch & Sniff: Search now smells better.
5. Adsense for Conversations: Puts the 'context' in contextual advertising
6. Virgle: Things will get better. Eventually.
7. File --> New Airplane in Google Docs
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Highlights of the week
Food: On Monday, Nana and Mummy joined me for lunch at Google. We ate at the Pure Ingredient Cafe, which is in my building and one of my favourites. Nana seemed to enjoy her sushi and grilled fish, and Mummy loved the peanut butter chocolate crème brûlée. On Saturday, I made and ate momos, which are a kind of Tibetan dumpling, for the first time ( Read more... ) -
Artist of the week
Sara Bareilles
Age: 28
What's her deal?: Grew up in California (yay). After graduating from college, she started singing in bars and clubs and worked her way up into larger venues. Opened for other artists I like such as Mika and Paolo Nutini. Esther introduced her to me shortly before she became more widely known for her hit single "Love Song." ( Read more... ) -
Social Dance Music
As some of you may know, I do a lot of social dancing, and over the last two years I've built up a respectable library of dance music. Since this post just over a year ago, my collection has decupled (increased by a factor of ten). Well, 11.5, actually. Most of this is thanks to extensive sharing with Mike, Jason, and Graham.
Anyway, I spend a ( Read more... ) -
Disneyland
Good: Going to Disneyland for free courtesy of your company.
Better: Going to Disneyland for free in the middle of an off-season week.
Better: Going to Disneyland for free in the middle of an off-season week with good friends.
Best: Going to Disneyland for free with good friends when the park is specially reserved just for your company and there are ( Read more... ) -
The Invisibles
I need to write at least one music-related post, but I'm tired and lazy so instead here's a quotation:
"There's a true sense of mystery with magic. Like you're having a meaningful dialogue with something bigger than you -- bigger than anything you can imagine. It reaches into what we've all agreed are the workings of the world and stirs them ( Read more... ) -
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This week was long and stressful work-wise, but it shaped up towards the end thanks in part to lots of dancing. Tonight my tired feet and I are going to sleep cozily and enjoy the rain being outside watering the earth and making a pleasant patter and filling up Lake Lagunita. -
Artist of the week
Ingrid Michaelson
Age: 27
What's her deal?: Talented young singer/songwriter. If you watch television, you may have heard the song "Keep Breathing" in the Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Finale, or her latest hit "The Way I Am" on Old Navy Commercials. Apparently, after Grey's Anatomy ended, there was a big rush to find her song on MySpace and that's how ( Read more... )