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Continue reading →: Work and Life: WISE "Holiday" Party
On February 16, 2001, the Wireless Internet Solutions Engineering (WISE) of Palm held their belated holiday party at the MacArthur Park restaurant in Palo Alto. The party served as interesting subtext for a discussion on the distinction between family and work life. After a number of delays and false starts,…
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Continue reading →: Ultimate Dislocation!
Let me preface this photomusing by stating that I am typing this article with one hand, my left hand. My right arm is in a splint and sling, as it recovers from a particularly nasty dislocation that happened about 14 hours ago. From 100+ words a minute to 20 words…
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Continue reading →: Hawaiian Party in Menlo Park
Before the party, Randy and I went to the New Tung Kee Restaurant in Mountain View on San Antonio Road for some late night noodles. I tried not to deviate from my norm and ordered the usual #9 with no cilantro. I’m one of those people that my friend, Eric,…
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Continue reading →: John Blake and Eric Cheng Dinner
I’ve known Eric and John since high school. We were brought together by the computer bulletin board systems (BBS). I have fond memories of waking up at 6:00 in the morning to log into my favorite BBSes in order to play my round of TradeWars 2002. John and I have…
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Continue reading →: Canon D30 vs. Kodak PalmPix
Tonight, I went to the monthly Stanford Palm Users Group where we were demonstrating the new Kodak PalmPix. Wanting to mirror the elections that were happening today, I decided to wage a little friendly competition between the PalmPix and my Canon D30 digital camera. Let’s take a look at the…
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Continue reading →: Return To Boston
One of the classic lines from Total Recall occurred in the beginning of the movie, when Arnold’s brainwashed character, Doug Quaid, receives a message from himself, “Get your ass to Mars… get your ass to Mars… get your…” It wasn’t quite the same as I boarded the plane to Boston…
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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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