One of my oldest friends (from high school) told me today that he’s moving from from the Bay Area and back to the east coast. That’s sad news, it was really nice to have someone from NH around here. We had some fun getogethers. It brings up the issue again of when our west coast …
One part of The Tech museum yesterday had plaques on the walls with various interesting/amusing quotes about space. A few of them were: “Don’t kill me, you’re from outer space!” – Alien “I’m not from outer space, I just work there” – Captain Kirk “Wherever you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzai And my …
While I was listening to NPR yesterday, I realized that their “ads”, read by NPR staff, are basically the equivalent of the text ads in search engines like Yahoo Search. They’re usually highly relevent to the audience, but subtle enough to not overpower the content.
Well, I had my first Segway ride today, over at The Tech Museum in San Jose. It feels pretty natural to move forward and back on it, but I nearly ran out of the little coned in area they had for it when I tried to figure out how to turn. It would definitely take …
The Sunnyvale Town Center Mall or (the WAVE as they tried to rename it) is closing. We went in today and most of the non-chain stores were closing out and selling everything at half off in preparation for the Aug. 31 shutdown of the mall. The Target and Macys anchor stores will remain open. I’m …
I’ve never been a big fan of New York City. It’s just too big and too busy with way too many people. Then every once a while something crazy happens and the whole city goes into crisis. I bet a lot of people give up on New York after this latest incident and move to …
So, can I post to my blog from my Treo? Apparently I can. Pretty cool.
Just in case you’re trying to eliminate all the possibilities.
“Whats with the frickin’ crickets?!” — Anne, lying in bed last night, apparently not amused at the crickets who have moved into our backyard.
I rolled over on my ankle on a hike a week ago and now it hurts more than it did an hour after I injured it. Damn. Well, I guess I have good excuse to skip running for the rest of the week.