| Farewell, Yahoo! |
[Mar. 20th, 2008|04:52 pm] |
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It's official. I quit my job at Yahoo, and I will start working at Gaia Online at the end of March. |
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| Gaia |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|08:25 pm] |
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Are any of you familar with Gaia online? If so, what are your thoughts? |
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| Deathly Hallows |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|10:26 pm] |
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I finished Harry Potter 7, and it was extraordinary. |
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| Photos...now with geotags! |
[Sep. 28th, 2006|09:38 pm] |
Flickr released a new feature about a month ago that allows users to geotag, add geographical data, their photos. So, after some hard work, research, and some help from Liz, I've geotagged nearly 800 photos! You can check them out on my flickr map! Note, that in the upper left corner there are map "pages." This is a bit odd (even some flickr folks admit so), but getting data for potentially thousands of photos and putting them on a map could be a bit costly, so this was the compromise. |
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| Update |
[Aug. 20th, 2006|12:26 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | bike, blockbuster, dr. pepper, fantasy football, liz, malkin, move, pablo francisco, patent, random, san mateo, snakes on a plane | ] |
I haven't updated. Here's news and notes.
-I moved north to San Mateo. I live in a house with a couple other guys. My ex-roommate fined me for not cleaning the apartment (which I did). What I didn't realize was that by "clean" he meant "sterilize." He wasn't around when I moved out, so I left him an email stating that I'd be happy to reclean anything that wasn't up to par. Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity he elected to clean it himself, send an angry email about it, and fine me. Ridiculous.
-Snakes on a Plane is fantastic. Just a hilarious movie. Hooray for gratuitous nudity! Sam Jackson's m*therf*ckin snakes line comes at an unusual time, but it didn't prevent the audience from erupting!
-I bought a new bicycle. Woo!
-I failed to mention that I went to a comedy club a couple months ago and saw Pablo Francisco live. He's best known for his "Little Tortilla Boy" routine, which he didn't do. In all honesty, he wasn't that great. He's too off the wall, and too scared of silence. He just fills dead air with constant sound effects (his bread and butter).
-Evgeni Malkin is a superhero.
-Safeway has an imitation Dr. Pepper named "The Dr." That's almost as good as Eckerd's elusive "Dr. Riffic."
-I started my almost-famous Fantasy Football league. If you want in, let me know.
-Liz and I have signed up for Blockbuster Online. Their rates are identical to Netflix, but they also throw in a couple free rental coupons per month for their retail stores, making it a better value. We're on the cheapest plan: 3 DVDs per month, one at a time, plus 2 monthly coupons. It equates to approximately 1 a week or so, which is a nice pace. We're using it as an opportunity to see some classic movies that one or both of us haven't seen. Among the recent selections include The Godfather Trilogy and The Shawshank Redemption (amazing!)
-I may be able to file a patent for some things I did at work (neat!)
/update |
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| July 4th weekend in Rahchacha |
[Jul. 11th, 2006|08:36 pm] |
Since I had an extra-long July 4th weekend, I took the opportunity to see some friends in Rochester. Upon arriving in Buffalo's airport, Liz and I were heartily greeted by Eric, Steve, and Scott. Liz stayed behind with her family in Buffalo, so I got to chill out and catch up with everyone.
Among the highlights:
- Eric's mysteriously comfortable couch. I haven't slept that well in ages.
- DiBella's Old Fashioned Subs
- Watching Steve fall on his ass. Oh the memories.
- Eric's hilariously pink bathroom
- Puking in said bathroom
- Lunch with Frank
- Bocce with the Rhino
- Free Bowling at L&M
- "Thank You For Smoking" at the Dollar Theatre
And the lowlights
- Not seeing Coach
- Losing to Matt in Bowling and being forced buy him a "Soda" (Whatever that means).
- WoW. I hate WoW. I dislike flying 3000 miles only to be second-fiddle to someone's obligations to a video game. The hardest part of moving to the West Coast was leaving my friends behind, and I feel that many of them are foolishly squandering a very limited opportunity to hang out, make memories, and have fun by excessively playing a mindless game. In 10 years, when they look back, are their fondest memories going to be the times we hung out, or the NightElf Dance. Stupid.
Anywho, aside from the rant, I really had an awesome time! Thanks again guys! I hope I can come out again soon! |
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| Feed Reader |
[Jun. 25th, 2006|10:11 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | rss | ] |
| [ | mood |
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Does anyone here use a good RSS feed reader/aggregator? Something like Bloglines, but better? I'm looking for a good one, preferably web-based... |
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| Scribbler: Yahoo Messenger Plugin |
[Jun. 20th, 2006|08:07 pm] |
Yahoo Messenger released 8.0 Beta yesterday. The newest functionality includes an open-plugin API. I co-authored one of the Plugins that come bundled with the product. It's a shared drawing application called Yahoo Scribbler. (Marketing renamed it).
It'd be really cool if you guys could check it out. You need to be able to chat with somebody, so after you download it from http://messenger.yahoo.com send me an IM at j0nnew. I'm online every weekday during west coast business hours.
Chris Daly, this was the "Super Secret" project I was working on. |
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| Pictures, My Mom's retirement, and other random goodness |
[Jun. 18th, 2006|05:18 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | photos | ] |
| [ | mood |
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I went to Pittsburgh last weekend for my Mom's retirement party. For those of you I couldn't visit (which is really all of you), sorry, but I really had very little time. I arrived Saturday afternoon, and left Sunday evening.
The party was a lot of fun, and I took a lot of pictures, but chances are they won't be of any interest to...except maybe the plane made of money. Unfortunately, I had the responsibility of carrying the plane to the car which entailed walking through the bar populated with drunken patrons. Among the remarks:
Did you just graduate? Congratulations!
Hey, I'll give you a dollar for that plane!
Ooh, can I get a ride on that plane?
STFU!! (That was me, in my head)
It's always good to go back home. It's the only place where I get to see a statue of Franco Harris next to George Washington.
Some other random photos:
The piece of jewelry Liz bought
A tree fell in the pool at my apartment complex.
Cranberry Juice was on sale. |
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| Words that cause Liz to yell at me... |
[May. 31st, 2006|10:34 pm] |
Apricot (pronounced with a long a)
Slippy
Catty-corner
At least I haven't busted out yinz, n'at. |
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| User interface updates |
[May. 17th, 2006|11:21 pm] |
I'm curious as to what people think of the new Yahoo homepage, and for Flickr users, if you like the new menu/UI.
I won't be mad or bitter about any negative comments or anything silly like that. Just curious. |
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| Aquarium |
[May. 16th, 2006|11:02 pm] |
I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with Liz last weekend. Here are some pictures. |
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| Another blog? |
[May. 15th, 2006|10:28 pm] |
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If I created another blog about technology, design, and social trends, would you read it (assuming I updated it regularly)? |
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| I probably should update... |
[May. 6th, 2006|10:40 pm] |
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Ugh, it's been a painfully long time since I've updates. Lots of things have transpired. Here's a random sampling of updates.
- Liz is here! She's manufactured an impressive interest in her design skillz. She'll be employed soon.
- We spent Easter in Las Vegas (A nice, Catholic town) with my folks. I have pictures.
- I bought new shoes. They are red. Now, I'm a pimp like Chris Daly.
- I also bought a watch (which isn't red). Liz is attempting to make me stylish, which is very scary, and will inevitably lead to failure.
- I went to Maker Faire a couple weeks ago (from the creators of 'Make' magazine). Basically a bunch of crazy (and in some cases useful) creations made by people in their spare time. A recreation Babbage's Difference Engine, a homemade segway, a giant robot giraffe were among the many, many highlights. It was really inspirational. I only have a few pics because my camera ran out battery. Check out the Flickr pics tagged with "makerfaire."
- I recently had a question on PHP. So, who did I ask? The creator of the language of course! (He works at Yahoo).
- I played ultimate frisbee with one of the cofounders.
That's all for now. |
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[Mar. 11th, 2006|05:19 pm] |
Last week, I got to go to Seattle for the FlashForward conference. It was pretty sweet; I went to some interesting classes and saw some good speakers. Grant Skinner (gskinner.com, incomplet.org) has done some amazing work with Flash and webcam interaction. I got to chat with later. The highlight was seeing the Chapman brothers, the creators of Homestar Runner. They were very down to earth, and freely admitted that they probably knew less about Flash than most of the audience (they use Flash 5 which is outdated by several years). They were also hilarious, and we got to hear Matt Chapman make the voices for Homestar and StrongBad. It was great!
Other highlights included playing free games at Seattle Gameworks (similar to Dave&Buster's) and the FlashForward FilmFestival.
I also got to hang out with my good friend Nimesh for a couple nights.
FlashForward was sandwiched by a visits from Karen who interviewed with Google (she didn't get it...which is further proof of their evilness) and my brother who redeemed his birthday present and watched Stanford Basketball lose to UCLA.
Leila also briefly visited today on her way to the Reno Airport as part of her trans-California trip.
Pics.
So...when are the rest of the PGSITers coming? :) |
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| Sports. |
[Mar. 4th, 2006|01:37 am] |
Hockey
This quote from Malcolm Gladwell, one of my favorite authors, totally resonated with me.
"They say that Wayne Gretzky, as a 2-year-old, would cry when the Saturday night hockey game on TV was over, because it seemed to him at that age unbearably sad that something he loved so much had to come to end, and I’ve always thought that was the simplest explanation for why Gretzky was Gretzky."
Basketball
And this kid is incredible. Simply, incredible. |
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| Visitors and things! |
[Feb. 24th, 2006|11:06 pm] |
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So, I grew an amazing goatee...
...then I chopped it off just in time for...
...Liz to visit...
...then Karen came to interview with evil people...
...then I'm going to Seattle for the Flash Forward conference...
...and I'm hoping to see Nimesh...
...then I'm coming back on Thursday...
...by which time my brother will be in town...
...and we'll hang out, and hopefully watch some Stanford hoops...
...then Gateway is going to leave...
...the day after Leila is going to be in town...
...(note all the PGSITers)...
...then a week later Liz makes her triumphant return, along with her sister...
...and I work 50-60 hours a week...
...and I'm tired. |
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