Got rained on pretty bad today. Now I smell like damp laundry which is pretty gross. It was a much appreciated respite from the heat but now I’m just sticky and icky.
Had goat for the first time (that I know of) yesterday. It’s not too bad. Not sure I’d be able to distinguish it from [...]
Finally got some time this weekend to do some of the more cultural activities and spend quality time with the family. Got to meet some interesting new people as well, and karaoke that actually scores you on your performance lends itself to interesting drinking games.
Work is going well. Living the mantra of working hard and [...]
Of course no trip to Asia is complete without eating the street food and flirting with danger, but so far things have been fairly tame. Grilled rabbit at the table once. Lots of seafood, exotic fruit, and home cooking. I’m finally losing weight. For the first time in years I caught a glimpse of what [...]
Bravery - Time Won’t Let Me Go
Whenever I look back
On the best days of my life
I think I saw them all on T.V.
I am so homesick now for
Someone that I never knew
I am so homesick now for
Someplace I will never be
Time won’t let me go
Time won’t let me go
If I could do it all again
I’d [...]
I’ve had the honor of experiencing the notorious Saigon traffic in its fullness. Last trip I had merely seen the downtown tourist chaos. This time I get to see what rush hour in knee-deep flooded water is like. You can’t help but feel for your loved ones who endure this day in day out. There [...]
no internet at the hotel nor am I home much anyways. work is great but can’t have people see me goof off. all in all, things are fantastic.
It’s been an exhausting red-eye. Flying out at 1:15 means I should have slept on the flight. However sitting next to a rather bothersome old man and his flailing about in his sleep, combined with his hourly bathroom left me weary eyed and agitated. Also the games on this flight sucked, and 4 bad movies [...]
I’ve thought about creating a new blog for this next adventure, but chances are I won’t keep it up to date anyways. Because of the ease of uploading pics from the iPhone directly to facebook, that will most likely be the extent of my publicized journal.
Bye bye
Theory
It’s quite amusing how I spent the last 6 months waiting to go back, and now that the time has come I only think of who I am going to miss terribly. But things have fallen together quite nicely these last few weeks. It is nice to not have to stress about the security of [...]
So we’re going to try to create our own tiny blackholes in France. What an exciting time to be living in. It’s strangely familiar to an episode of Stargate Atlantis where a failed experiment gobbled up an entire solar system. Then there’s the irony that in our search to recreate the big bang and learn [...]
A long time ago I found a little buddy named Phil. I fed him, piled dirt on him so he had something to dig through, and poked air holes in the lid of his plastic cup world. Those were the good ol’ days. When people understood when I did weird things like keep potato bug [...]
Seeing as how I’m programming in the cloud, my head might as well be there too
Even in beta, it causes so many problems I don’t know why they bothered even releasing it. It’s funny, IE7 caused people to clamor for a downgrade patch to go back to 6. Windows Vista fell flat as many turned tail and ran for the safe haven of XP.
Stanford has a class for programming Facebook [...]
For once I’m on top of things. Beginning the packing process early should take the edge off when this weekend comes around. Just some last minute shopping and visiting people. I even got off my lazy keyboard and got around to unlocking the iPhone, which turned out to be a fairly painless process.
Automatic bill payments, [...]
It finally happened… Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to get bailed out by Uncle Sam. And the FTC continues to push for more stringent telemarketing laws. Good times.
But hey, all this biking has given me a tan to die for.
hello, my name is… my name is… slim shady.
So google’s new browser is already stirring some commotion. Frankly I’m surprised how easily people are duped into thinking Google is some benevolent counterpart to the Microsoft’s evil empire. For a company that makes billions from highly intelligent ad filters tailored to your specific behavior on the web, using their browser seems like opening the [...]
Was pleasantly surprised for a second, and then back to status quo.
I guess things always work out as expected. Don’t know why I still care.
I’m not much for small dogs, but you’d have to be a zombie not to fall in love with the ginormous heart of a Jack Russell. He’s a bit on the high energy side but shockingly astute about observing your moods. And I got lotsa moods. And there’s nothing more eerily human than the way [...]
Poking around facebook can be quite enlightening. I’m especially fond of my high school classmates and their impressive degrees from the most prestigious of schools. Stanford undergrad, MD, PhD from Harvard. There’s a whole slew of friends making their way through med school. Another group already done… sometimes I wonder if I’m actually taking the [...]