War veterans tell the best stories – testosterone-filled men crammed in compact spaces doing something dangerous/awesome produce the best stories. Geeks? We have deployments to Silicon Valley, that’s where our best stories come from. The greatest story my life has to offer comes from my first stint at Silicon Valley – this summer, interning for [...]
Science Wednesday is a category I’ve wanted to create for a while. It will feature a weekly summary of an interesting academic article or other piece of science that I find – the primary reason being to force me into reading original sources and hopefully give you guys something interesting. Even though the world is [...]
Today I learned that yesterday there was some confusion about the dates of when I learned the two things because I was writing just past midnight. Well, ok, I just learned that right this very instance. This is the real 16.8. post, the other one is actually 15.8. and I don’t want to go gallivanting [...]
Today I learned that San Francisco is a really awesome city to just ride around on a bike pretty much without a set direction. You get to discover a lot of very interesting things, like this epic breakfast place in Mission called Boogaloos. It is in fact so awesome that there was a whole bunch [...]
Let me break your suspension of disbelief and admit that I am not writing this “today” … well it is still today by my standards because “tomorrow” starts at 6am and it’s only 5am right now … but WordPress is going to disagree with my definition and claim I have posted this tomorrow. But despite [...]
Image via Wikipedia Now that it’s been a weekend since my return from the US and I’ve had plenty of time to get over the cold of epic proportions that hit me on the way to the airport (literally, I was buying and popping fever reducers at the airport before boarding) and I’ve had plenty [...]
It is 8 o’clock airplane time and I just got caught red handed making some unauthorized tea. It’s a bit boring up here, I’ve already watched two movies, did some actual work, read about 70 pages of Ulysses, transfered a bunxh of music to the iPad, drank hundreds of cups of water, three cups of [...]
