Tuesday was conference work all day. My demo went alright; unfortunately the network was not cooperative so the live demo only worked sometimes. Luckily no one seemed to care, they were happy just talking about what was on the posters. It was a lot of work talking straight for two hours, but it felt good when it was over. Only another two hours of ( Read more... )

After countless hours in the sky, with crying babies all around, I successfully made it to Paris Sunday afternoon (early morning west coast time). After a good hour and half I eventually found the hotel hostel. Because my expected roommate was not going to arrive for another day, we were both assigned to rooms with other people. However, I ( Read more... )

After a week of total hell getting prepared for the demo, I'm off to Paris. Hopefully this week paid off and I'll have some time to enjoy the sites (and boys) of Paris.

I was on my way to meet up with Derrick tonight to play some poker. I was only a block and half away from the North Berkeley BART stop when this fellow ran up behind me, placed his hand around my neck and demanded my wallet. Yes, I was the victim of a strong-arm robbery. Luckily the asshole did not have a weapon, just a good choke hold. After ( Read more... )

Last night was Gay Day at Paramount's Great America. I went with rather low expectations. Last year our group spent most of the time trying to meet up with other people and thus consisted of lots of waiting and little else. This year was much better than expected.

The night consisted of:

• Vortex rollercoaster
  
• Comedy Show
  
• Venom rollercoaster
  
• Grizzly ( Read more... )

Today I interviewed three candidates for a programming position in my research group, to assist in coding the PIER and PHI projects. The money for the programmer has existed for almost a year now, but the professors finally got around to going through the resumes and selected a few for interviews ( Read more... )

I was going to try to write a cheerful entry today, but there is no cheer in me tonight. The cheer disappeared rather early today, especially with the 6AM call from mother, (she wanted to be the first to wish me a happy birthday... I have no idea why she would think I would be happy at that hour ( Read more... )

Today was my official start of employment with Intel for this summer. I was ordered to report to the Santa Clara training facility by 7:30AM ( Read more... )

I suppose it really is foreign to me. This week was supposed to me my vacation. However somehow I found myself in the office every day this week. It was not that work was beckoning, or especially exciting. I was simply bored ( Read more... )

Wisdom teeth should grow vertically, but nobody told my bottom two wisdom teeth. They are trying to make their entrance horizontally, pushing some other teeth out the way ( Read more... )