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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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    Waking Hour Release Party 2.0

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    November 6, 2002

    Last night, I attended Vienna’s Waking Hour Release Party at The Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco. The party was actually version 2.0, as there was one last year for the original version of the album. Now signed with Virt Records, Vienna went back to the studios in Nashville to…

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  • Journal

    Bottom of the Hill

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    November 4, 2002

    There’s no time to rest. No sooner than I get back from my backpacking trip to Sykes Hot Springs that I’m back on the road, my camera locked and loaded. The loud and harsh rock sounds continue to reverberate through my now unplugged ears. Tonight, I travelled to The Bottom…

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  • Journal, Travel

    Sykes Hot Springs

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    November 2, 2002

    Upon hearing of Maddie’s trip to Sykes Hot Springs in the Ventana Wilderness, I envisioned dozens of steaming water bubbling from enclosed rock pools alongside a raging river. This vision firmly planted in my mind, I quickly agreed to go with Maddie and the Stanford Redwood Outdoor Club to Sykes…

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    Halloween

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    October 31, 2002

    How I’ve settled into surburbia! No longer the one who goes from door to door asking for trick-or-treats, I’m now relegated to the one who hands out candy and turns the house into an interesting locale for the neighborhood kids. I handed out Kit-Kats, Mounds, and Hersey Kisses, along with…

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    Leon and Paula

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    October 26, 2002

    Leon, one of Rae’s friends from high school, tied the knot yesterday with his childhood sweetpea, Paula. The wedding was held at the Lakeside Presbyterian Church along 19th Avenue in San Francisco and was followed by a reception at the prestigious San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The SFMOMA’s lobby…

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  • Journal, Technology

    SNUG

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    October 22, 2002

    Two new people were at the latest Stanford Newton User Group meeting in Palo Alto this evening. Paul and Melissa told me that they were at the Apple Store Grand Opening last year and saw me on the rooftop taking pictures! Furthermore, they mentioned that they were in one of…

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    Stanford Reunion

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    October 18, 2002

    For four years, we spent every day, laughing, crying, and studying together at Stanford University. Absent have many become from each other’s thoughts and lives for the past five years. For four days in October, 2002, the past of the Class of 1997 returned to the present at Stanford Reunion.…

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  • Journal, Vienna Teng

    Vienna, Beth, and Rachel

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    October 16, 2002

    Tuesday night, Vienna Teng performed at the Espresso Garden & Cafe in San Jose. She was accompanied by fellow Virt Records recording artists, Beth Boucher and Rachel Gaudry. This was the second time that I’ve been to the Espresso Garden. Previously, I along with dozens others, was shooed away due…

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  • Journal

    Blue + Red + Yellow = White

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    October 15, 2002

    This afternoon, four years of blue, red, and yellow faded away as white returned to my former apartment. Despite the painters’ best efforts, however, small patches of color continue to peek around edges as if to say, “Look! I was once red, blue, and yellow!” to the future tenants. I…

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  • COBA, Journal, Photography

    COBA 8th Meeting

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    October 9, 2002

    Members of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area received first-hand looks at two exciting cameras Wednesday evening, the Canon EOS-1Ds and the Sigma SD9, featuring the Foveon X3 imaging sensor. Among the featured speakers were Jim Rose from Canon and Dick Merrill, Tim Whitehouse, and Eric Zarakov from Foveon.…

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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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