Here are my Twitter posts on the first day of my trip to CHI 2011, which was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. At SFO Terminal 3. Longest security line I’ve seen in years. I better make my flight, which leaves in 1 hour. @tsatracker SFO Terminal 3 economy security: 24 minute wait At YVR …
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Twitter highlights of my trip to New York: April 23–30, 2011
Saturday, April 23 When setting your alarm for a morning flight, make sure it’s set for AM, not PM. Parked in short term and just made it. Don’t remember so many NYC subway service notices, but managed to get to the hotel anyway. Late night pizza nearby for dinner. Sunday, April 24 For brunch, meeting …
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
@landay I find iPhone’s UI still has more polish. Plus, I’m still in an AT&T contract, and Nexus One doesn’t support AT&T’s 3G frequencies. in reply to landay # @j_lin Google Voice also avoids the annoyances of voicemail. in reply to j_lin # Whatever happened to the opening crawl in Star Wars? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8O8YbnworA (via Gizmodo) …
Busy busy
Last week was the most action packed I’ve had in a while. Between Monday and Saturday, I only spent Wednesday night at home: Monday: to the Computer History Museum for a panel on the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64, my first computer Tuesday: ice skating with friends at the Sharks ice skating rink near …
You took how long to graduate?
I was recently helping out Ron with his Ph.D. defense talk, and sent him slides from my talk as a reference. He said, “By the way, your last slide is amazing. best defense slide ever.” My last slide was titled, “What has happened since I entered grad school.” So are some of the notable products …
My life in two days
This past weekend kept me quite busy. On Saturday I met a college friend for lunch and then went to a potluck dinner with my high school friends. On Sunday I met up with another college friend to go the dragon boat festival, where a friend I’ve known since elementary school was racing. Afterwards I …
Avenue Q
Last Wednesday, I joined Jon and friends to go see Avenue Q at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. In case you haven’t heard of it, think Sesame Street meets South Park. A case of humans and Muppet-style puppets work through their 20- and 30-something angst, and sing about love, purpose, and Internet porn. (These …
Media appearances
I’m in the newspaper! Of course, it has nothing to do with my day-to-day job. Instead, I was photographed talking to the photographer of the new Lincoln Highway book: Along the Father Road, Contra Costa Times, August 11, 2007 This complements my appearance in Bay Area Backroads on KRON 4 about road rallyes: Windows Media …
A Month of Movies
From July 4 to August 4, I watched four movies in the theater, which is probably more than the previous two years. Transformers. Better than I expected — the action and graphics were quite good (of course), and the acting wasn’t bad (maybe because my expectations were low). It’s done amazingly well at the box …
Lincoln Highway Book Tour — San Francisco style
After work today, I made my way up to Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building to catch the endpoint of the tour for the new book, The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate, by Michael Wallis and Michael Williamson. The Lincoln Highway was the first road across America, yet …
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