Jump to PhotosIf you haven’t already, you might want to read part 1 Now came the hard part, should we make an offer and if so, for how much? We had not previously reached this point in the process and having < 12hrs to make a decision on a house we had seen for the […]
I graduated college in 2000 and after spending the summer in student co-operative housing, girlfriend and I moved into a < 500sqft studio apartment in Berkeley on the corner of Ellsworth and Dwight. Location and price drove our decision as she still had a year of college left and I had a job in San […]
Jump to MediaI have been a Yankee fan for almost 25 years; the Yankees failed to make the playoffs during the first 9. In 1995, I got my first taste of the postseason, which ended with a crushing extra-inning game 5 loss to the Seattle Mariners in the American League Division Series. Luckily, the next […]
Growing up I played baseball, ran track & field, studied piano, participated in the cub/boy scouts, etc. During that time I accumulated a number of trophies, medals, plaques, ribbons and so on. Of course I didn’t win/advance to the next level all the time or on the first try, and the reasons for receiving them […]
I took a break from projecteuler to whip up a webOS application before my Tahoe Rim Trail Thru-hike. Upon returning I started skiming some technical books and started playing around with the Facebook Puzzles. In general, starting lots of threads is exciting and gives me the feeling that I am learning a lot; however, I […]
My wife and I took a short road-trip up the northern coast of California over Labor Day Weekend to visit the old growth Redwood forests. I have had an interest in the Giant Sequoias and Coastal Redwoods, the largest and tallest living organisms respectively, for some time now. Standing next to a 1000 year old […]
Last night my 5 year old Dell Latitude 600 laptop started chugging along more slowly than usual. It had been a week or so since I last rebooted it, and a reboot almost always seems to have some short term positive impact on its performance. It took an extremely long time for it to start […]
Last month I completed a thru-hike of the Tahoe RimTrail and became the 915th member of the 165 Mile Club. I took a number of pictures and tried to keep something of a journal during the hike. It’s not the most thrilling piece of prose, but it’ll have to do. Originally I thought I would […]
I don’t know anyone (though not doubt they exist) who debates the merits of natural languages and chooses which one to communicate with based on characteristics such as whether they’re fusional vs. agglutinative, but I know plenty of people who discuss the virtues of various computer programming languages and think one is better than the […]
I finished version 0.1 of my first Palm webOS application last weekend. The Palm Pre has a GPS chip in it but there are no applications that expose the raw data, as a dedicated GPS would. As I’m about to embark on a 9 day hike around the rim of Lake Tahoe, I decided to […]
