Views from my window...

I might have a picture out of the window of almost every place I've lived.  If not avail, get close. 


De Anza - 1 year
Tantau - 1.5 years
Pruneridge - 3 months
Belmont Continentals Way 2 - 1 year
Belmont Continentals Way 1 - 1 month
The Villas - couple months
Nob Hill - two weeks
That hotel - only 1 week
Bronxville - 1 year
Bronx - 1 year
Oltorf - 5 months
Trinity 4th floor - 2 years
Trinity 1st floor - 1 year
TAMS  - 2 years
Parents home

I've lived in 14 places since high school.  Averages to a place a year. 
Note that none of my family has visited me where I've lived in the last 6 years though I visit them every year for the last 5 years. 

Wow, I've done a lot of moving.  I move again tomorrow back to SF. 

Cussing good!

watched:  Fantastic Mr. Fox and loved it.  I definitely recommend it.  Many good laughs and rewindable moments. 

Pre-stirred

I noticed today that the latest marketing ploy for Yogurt makers is a label saying it's prestirred.  Way to apply appeal to our inner-laziness. 

"...we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better."

"Sometime after 1997 when Jobs returned to Apple, he gave this motivational speech defining Apple and their "core beliefs". While wearing shorts. While we can't promise he'll be sporting bare legs this Wednesday, this minute-long clip is powerful stuff.
My favorite quote from the video shows the lack of modesty that Jobs manages to deliver so well:

"What we're about isn't making boxes for people to get their jobs done, although we do that well."

But if you're wanting to create a motivational desktop wallpaper featuring his photo and a choice quote, you can't go wrong with this little gem:

"Apple at the core, its core value, is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better."

" by Kat Hannaford
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FvVFxjxBMwQ/10-year-old-video-of-steve-jobs-in-shorts-defining-apple

Through the years in Y...

2010
Locality:  Moved to Noe Valley in Feb
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2009
Locality:  Moved to my own Studio in Cupertino in Feb.  
Injury:  Dislocated shoulder by a skating fall in March?
Allergy:  Started having 3 allergy shots every week in April
Surgery:  Deviated septum in June?
Activity:  Hiking Utah, Big Sur, Pinnacles, Seqouia, Lassen, and Australia
Occupationally:  Transferred from QA to Builder role
Family:  Dad stops cancer treatments.  Mom starts spinal infusions.  
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2008
Comedy:  Valentine's Day Pillow Fight in Feb.
Comedy#2:  SantaCon as Santa on rollerskates in Dec.Locality:  Lived with 6 great roommates in a Cupertino mansion.
Injury:  Torn ligament in left ankle playing tennis with Christine.
Family:  First nephew born in August
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2007
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2006
Family:  First niece born in Feb.  
Occupationally:  Transfer from retail to corporate AAPL.  June. 
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2005
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2004
Locality:  Move from NY to SF.  September 12
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2003
Comedy:  Made out with a stranger on New Years.  She didn't know who I was 3 days later.
Injury:  Hit by a car while skating.  Halloween

New Adventures

I'm taking East Coast Swing classes at AAPL.  I've only done 1/4 so far, but it's my current hobby.  After my move to Noe Valley is complete, I'll re-invest in skating and tennis(if it's dry).

I miss yoga, wall climbing, and kayaking.
I had a strange desire to try ice sculpting after seeing http://englishrussia.com/?p=9491


Add to todo list:  Do taxes.

Giving blood...

I got my own Stanford Blood Center card in the mail.

I apparently don't have B positive blood, I have A Positive.

Must rethink all the possible theories on what I'm supposed to eat. 

http://www.ehow.com/way_5194300_diet-blood-type-positive.html
"If you wish to follow a diet recommended for those with Type A blood, you must become a vegetarian."   GASP!!!  This is where I sense the 1/6 pork and 1/4 lamb in my freezer laughing at me with pre-vengeance. 

Self-Challenge of entertainment

It's hard for me to go total cold turkey on watching television shows and movies.  So, I'll try to limit myself to one tv show or movie per day.  Starting now.

Noting:
Yesterday was the Book of Eli with 7 friends in MV
Today(before making my goal) was Caprica and Lust Caution

Great sites I should remember but can't bookmark.

Honestly, I have so many bookmarks and it never seems worth the time to organize them, that I really only keep track of the bookmarks in the toolbar and not the menu.  One of these days I'll use a plugin that makes me tag as I bookmark and puts them in a folder in the beginning.

'till then:
User driver additions to standard ikea instructions so that one can put it together easier and even take it apart.  
http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/ikea-instructions/4849-expedit-4x4-bookcase-instructions-annotated.html

flyertalk
groupon
http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/artist/haileywojcik/shows/

Wow, this is still up...

It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to access this blog again(almost 4 years later).
At issue was that I created the account using an 06 email address that I created to be disposable, I'm hosting this site on my server, and Google had bought out blogger.

Cade had a wonderful link. I should try to visit these labrynths.
http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/artsentertainment/tp/bayarealabyrinths.htm

Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondent's Dinner

PART 1
PART 2

For those of you who can't watch the videos, here is the complete transcript:

and an article

After Dark Catch of the day

Tonight after midnight, someone posted an Airport Extreme card, Apple Pro Mouse, and Apple Pro Keyboard for $60. I bit being the techie that I am. The odd part was that this craigslister had to pay rent and needed to deal tonight. So, about 12:30AM I had to drive to 18th and Santiago and then call from the corner. I felt as if it were very much akin to a drug deal except with Apple goods.

Ticket Stubbed: Four Tet

At Christina's invitation, I went to a concert at the Independent. Finding parking took 20-30 minutes but I got lucky or lucky enough to not get towed by my oversized car invading two driveways. Four Tet was coo though I really only meshed with the first song. I would have liked more words from the musician to make it more personable than the feeling you're watching this guy practice in his room at home these awesome mixing skills.

I liked Jamie Lidell's opening performance, and it may be because it was so vocally infused.

Sunday Kayaking

I believe I've invited everyone I know to go on a fun kayaking trip Sunday. During September, it's only $10/hour in Alameda(Oakland).

Sausalito Art Festival

Shu and I went to the festival yesterday and saw the most wonderful works. If I have a mission in life to obtain three pieces of art, I would obtain a piece from:

Theodore Gall - http://www.tgall.com/
Michael Gard - http://www.michaelgard.com/
Thomas Barbey - http://thomasbarbey.com/

TV Show crossovers

It's fun to see acting cameos of your favorite TV shows intertwined. I loved watching Deadwood. I'm now watching Six Feet Under from start to finish and am on Season 2. Season 2 episode 7 had Mrs. Garrett from Deadwood as a jewish rabbi(and still a very attractive one). The episode right after had Al Swearengen's henchman, Dan Dority, as a biker. In real life, I think Six Feet season 2 was being filmed in 2002. Deadwood started in 2004. Both are HBO, so this finding isn't as scandalous as it could have been had Showtime filmed one of these shows.

Once in the family....

Cocoa Day 1

I'm taking a 5 day vacation from work to take a Cocoa class over in Cupertino. It's kind of fun and yet tense to get one of my projects done ASAP. During lunch, I had fun playing v-ball. I hope all workers there know of the b-ball and v-ball that one can seek during lunch's escape.

They fix Macs and fight off robbers

'We Fix Macs' holdup ends in shooting

Knowing myself, I'd probably have fought the guy too. But maybe I would have used something called iMac electrostatic discharge.

Matching passions

I read on the daily skaters email from the California Outdoor Rollerskating Association's group emails that there is a guy who is about to finish skating all 831 miles of Oakland streets and he works for Apple.

Oakland: Spinmeister charts new course

With some research, it seems as though he works on Quicktime. I'm tempted to skate up there without his knowledge to be a random stranger who also likes skating and Apple but that might take some inside information on his whereabouts in the 831 possible miles of coverage. Once he finishes, maybe we can get a group together a little closer to SF or Cupertino. I met an Appleite on the Stanford Wednesday night skates, so we'd have at least 3.

Enough?

There's a point where a person should realize they have too many computers.
6 computers later. ..