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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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    Michael's Graduation

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    January 9, 2004

    Elaine’s husband, Michael, graduated from the Primary Care Associate Program at Stanford on Friday afternoon. The program’s mission is “to train physician assistants and family nurse practitioners for practice in primary care and underserved communities” and to “increase the enrollment and deployment of underrepresented minorities while being responsive to internal…

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    MacWorld

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    January 7, 2004

    This year’s MacWorld featured the iPod mini, newer XServes, and updates to iLife. Add it all up and you’re looking at a far smaller MacWorld than in previous years. I will dread the day when the conference fits in either the South or North Hall but not both. I think…

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    Blowfish

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    January 2, 2004

    Happy New Year! On the 2nd of January, I went with Rae, Steven, Susan, Patrick, Bryan, and Elisa to Blowfish Sushi in San Francisco (there’s also a location in Santana Row in San Jose). The place is a typical high-priced Asian fusion restaurant. There was loud music playing in the…

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    Best Buy and Lunch with Yuji

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    December 15, 2003

    Today, I went to Best Buy with Randy to check out their cheap laptops. What rebates dropping the price of some laptops to $599, I have to wonder if the manufacturers are making any money on these computers. We checked out Best Buys at Santana Row in San Jose and…

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    Palm White Elephant Party

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    December 12, 2003

    The former Palm WISE group got together at Vive Sol restaurant in Mountain View for its annual White Elephant Gift Exchange party. It was great to see the old gang together once again, including Vinay, Carey, Gary, Vijay, Carl, Charles, Fermin, Greg, Raja, Debbie, Tatyana, John, Trevor, Glenn, Vince, Fanny,…

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    War Photographer

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    December 10, 2003

    Bulletproof. Only hours after we screened War Photographer at the final COBA meeting of 2003, I learned that James Nachtwey — the subject of the documentary — was injured by a grenade attack in Baghdad. A former editor of his from the 80’s mentioned in the film that older combat…

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    Vienna Teng at Best Buy

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    December 7, 2003

    Best Buy would be one of the last places I could think of as a venue for Vienna Teng to perform. There she was last week, however, performing in front of fans and Christmas shoppers at the Best Buy in Santana Row in San Jose. Some of the usual fans…

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    Filming

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    December 6, 2003

    Po’k and Tom came by the house last week to knock out some scenes for his upcoming film, Pupil. In the drizzle, Po’k, Randy, and I filmed Tom exiting the house and driving away. It’s always fun to see the creative process in progress at Clubertino. We’ve had parties, documentary…

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    Christine and Ben

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    December 6, 2003

    Rae’s friend from college is getting married! Christine and Ben had their wedding engagement party at Andy and Amy’s in Berkeley. Rae had a good time reconnecting with her college friends, Christine, Nicole, and Jen.

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    Salim's Birthday

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    December 5, 2003

    Catching up on events the past few weeks… on the 5th, Rae, Levi, Vanessa, May, and Salim headed out to Hanamaru in Sunnyvale to celebrate Salim’s birthday with sushi. I don’t understand why people have an aversion to eating a nice nigiri or sashimi. Sushi is nice and yummy! Maybe…

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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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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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