• Varnish

    Rae performed at the Varnish Art Gallery in San Francisco last week. Facing East’s Sue Li-Jue organized an event of women performers for the evening, including Yumi Thomas (Solo classical voice performance), Anamude (Vocalist and guitarist), Jenny Zhang (Performance artist), and Nitya Venkateswaran (South Indian Classical Dance). Rae performed The…

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  • A funny thing happened on the morning of the last COBA meeting of 2004, my primary photo hard drive crashed! I was working on the computer when I suddenly heard this awful clicking and scratching noise emanating from one of my hard drives. When I realized that it was the…

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  • Halloween

    It’s Halloween again in Clubertino! The kids (and their parents) were out in full force last night. Randy transformed the house into one of the coolest houses on the block. With black light and highlighters, he created a board on which the kids could write their names and costumes. Dressed…

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  • RT Halloween Party

    Rotten Tomatoes held their annual Halloween party at Suede in San Francisco. Rae and I, with the help of super-seamstress Rae’s mom, transformed ourselves into the characters from Hero. With my long hair and 2-week mustache and goatee, I played the role of Tony Leung, a.k.a Broken Sword. Rae became…

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  • Hao's BBQ

    I thought that I knew the Stanford campus inside and out, but I guess the old Farm still has a few secret hideouts waiting to be discovered. This weekend, we went to a BBQ and housewarming at Hao’s foothill retreat at the Wilcox Solar Observatory. I remember running through the…

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  • Wushu Central Demo

    Wushu Central gave a wushu demonstration at the Kid’s Fair held at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds this weekend. Demo practioners include Coach Chang, Liz, Landy, Rae, Lawrence, Sean, Brandon, Kevin, Krista, Tracy, Ashley, and Michelle. They performed various wushu sets such as straightsword, staff, spear, broadsword, drunken sparring, fanzi, straightsword…

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  • The October 2004 COBA meeting featured a wrapup of the recent Photokina conference in Cologne, Germany, a preview of Canon’s latest products, including the Canon EOS-20D and the EOS-1Ds Mark II, and a demonstration on using graphics tablets. There was a lot of DSLR news coming out of Photokina. In…

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  • On Sunday afternoon, Rae and I attended the wedding on Supriya and Mitchell at the San Mateo Garden Center. Though I’ve attended numerous Bar and Bat Mitzvah’s growing up in San Diego, I had never been to a Jewish wedding until this weekend. Rabbi Ari Cartun did a great job…

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  • Year in 480 Seconds

    Last school year, I received an email from the principal at the Mt St Patrick College in Murwillumbah, Australia. He wanted to show his students my Year in 60 Seconds movie to impart the wisdom that “every day is special” and emphasize “the importance of memory.” I created a slower,…

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  • I returned Tuesday evening from a month-long trip to Europe. The highlight of the final weekend was the inaugural Worldwide Newton Conference 2004, held at the Hungarian Institute in Paris, France. 8 years ago, I remember practicing Tai-Chi in the mornings right in front of that building! At the time,…

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