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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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    Ann's Birthday

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    October 11, 2003

    Ann celebrated her belated birthday party at Clubertino this past weekend. Randy and Joon-Mo broke out the BBQ Grill, cooking up delectable carne asada, chicken, and salmon for the guests, which included Ann’s cousin, Jen and her husband Kurt, Hollin, Annie and Cam, Dave and Judy, Rae, Joon-Mo, Felix, and…

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    Full Moon on the Quad

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    October 9, 2003

    Full Moon on the Quad is an annual Stanford tradition whereby freshman kiss seniors (and vice versa) on an evening with a full moon in Main Quad. For some reason or another, both as a freshman and senior at Stanford, I never went to FMOTQ. I was probably too shy…

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    COBA October 2003 Meeting

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    October 8, 2003

    The October 2003 COBA featured a group brainstorm on improving the meetings and planning for the future. The Camera Owners of the Bay Area has been in existence for nearly two years now. I originally created the group as a face-to-face forum for digital SLR enthusiasts to meet and talk…

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    Oakland vs. Boston

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    October 1, 2003

    What a game! 12 innings lasting over 4.5 hours! A see-saw battle in the late innings, with the A’s winning on a smart baserunning play in the 12th inning! I’m exhausted, and I’ll write more about the game later. In the meantime, feast you eyes on some of the photos…

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    Flash and Olga

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    September 27, 2003

    I’ve known Flash since the early days of the Stanford Newton User Group. When I heard that he got engaged to Olga, I remember saying to myself, “Woo hoo!” Flash held a party with his friends at his place in Palo Alto on the 27th of September to celebrate the…

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    Stanford First Week

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    September 26, 2003

    So, the first week of the Stanford school year 2003-2004 is under the belt. The week started on Wednesday following six days of orientation for the Class of 2007. Not to sound like an old man, but back in my day, we only had five days of orientation. Not only…

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    Apature Film Night

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    September 25, 2003

    APAture 2003 Film Night was held Thursday evening at the SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. I was last at SOMArts for a butoh performance by Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre. Rae’s documentary narrative film, Jingwei Girls, was selected along with 10 other works from filmmakers around the Bay Area. Here’s…

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  • Digital Vision, Journal

    Jasper Ridge

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    September 22, 2003

    Today, the DVF group took a tour of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve just outside of the Stanford campus. It was hot, hot, hot! I had never gone to Jasper Ridge when I was a student, though I knew of it through Alex Rubio during my senior year on campus.…

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    Held So Close Redux

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    September 21, 2003

    Facing East’s dance performance, HELD SO CLOSE…remembering the poets of Angel Island concluded its run on Sunday evening. We had a much bigger crowd than the previous week, which was certainly a good thing. Perhaps the article in the Bay Guardian helped, or my flurried posts to a variety of…

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    AQW Party

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    September 20, 2003

    AQW moved into their new headquarters in Sunnyvale this past week, and on Saturday night they held their christening party. Javi, Osv, Daniel, and Felix, along with Mark, Randy, and the rest of the gang assembled quite the guest list of their friends and co-workers. They did not, however, inform…

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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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