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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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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…
Adam, here
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!
