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Continue reading →: Halloween 2000
Halloween 2000. This year, I thought about dressing up as Greedo, the tragic Rodian from Star Wars; alas, I never ended up buying the mask or his long rubber hands, nor the funky green jumpsuit he wore. So, I dressed up as Elsa, everybody’s favorite photographer and cyclist. I took…
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Continue reading →: WISE Offsite at Planet Granite
On Friday the 13th in the month of October, the fearless Wireless Internet Solutions Group at Palm, Inc., braved deadly guppies at the Planet Granite river crossing and indoor climbing gym. They returned to Palm with sore forearms but also with a sense of great achievement! Climbing? Climb on!
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Continue reading →: Philosophy 160A
Logic is only the beginning of wisdom. — Spock, Star Trek VI If you didn’t have prior experience in Modern Algebra, Philosophy 160A was one of the toughest courses in the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University. If you eat Modern Algebra for breakfast, stop reading this musing immediately! If…
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Continue reading →: No Digital Cameras!
Hey! Is that a digital camera? That’s really small. You, you, you can’t take that inside! The other day, I got free lawn tickets from work to a k.d. lang and Sting concert that was sponsored by KFOG 104.5/97.7. The first set of people that I asked to go were…
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Continue reading →: Tour du Jour Training
For the past two years, I’ve ridden on the MS Society Tour du Jour, a sponsored ride along the Peninsula, with cyclists from Stanford C-Ya!. In previous years, the weeks leading up to the ride, we often got together for some training rides. While I will not be making the…
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Continue reading →: Tales from the Teahouse
A Place Like Cheers Over the three years that I was manager, I was happy to see that the establishment had become a place where people knew your name and came to enjoy the ambiance and atmosphere. Unlike the more stuffy eating locales on campus, such as the CoHo or…
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Continue reading →: Hair
The length and style of your hair often determines how you remember an important event or time in your life. When you see a picture of yourself from the past, the most distinguishing feature of you, aside from your clothes or glasses, is your hair. If it was long, a…
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Continue reading →: Journal Writing
There’s one lesson to be learned from reading this article: Write in a journal! I’ve been writing in a journal since I was in ninth grade. The earliest dated entry was January 18, 1990, which is over ten years ago (today, my journal weighs in at over 9 megabytes)! Because…
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Continue reading →: Four-Leaf Clovers
Four-Leaf Clovers, fact or fiction? The finder of one of these rare flowers is said to have found good luck and fortune. Four-Leaf Clovers, fact or fiction? The finder of one of these rare flowers is said to have found good luck and fortune. Have you ever found a four-leaf…
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Continue reading →: Digicam History
During my travels to France my third year at Stanford University, I had brought along my family’s film-based camera. The first camera that I could call my own was digital, an Agfa ePhoto 1680 (pictured below). The 1680 is a 1.3 megapixel camera with a very handy swivel lens design…
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Welcome to tow.com, my home on the internet since 1995. I’m an indie software artist and creator of apps such as Action Phrase, MixEffect, MsgFiler, RouteEffect, Wipe My Screen, and more. I’m also the producer and co-director of Autumn Gem. Enjoy your visit here!
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