This weekend we’re back to normal summer weather in the Bay Area: beautiful sunny days, cool nights. Last weekend we were in the middle of the worst heat wave to hit California. In 14 summers in the Bay Area, this was the first time I ever felt the need for an air conditioner. Our house …
Category Archives: Life
Done uploading photos
I’m finally done uploading all of my photos to Flickr. And I’ve fixed all of the photos in this blog to point to those photos. Whew, I’m beat! If you want to look through them, you could start at the beginning and browse through all 1,565 photos (and counting), but I suggest looking through my …
Cars; Willow Glen
I saw Cars over the weekend with Jon. Cars, of course, is based on a true story: the life, death, and rebirth of Route 66. It was astonishingly accurate in its renditions of roads, road signs, and maps. Pixar definitely had some roadgeeks advising them. In addition, Pixar got the author of one of the …
Giving in to the Flickr juggernaut
I've finally started uploading my photos to Flickr. Since I'm starting from around the time I got my digital camera in 2003, it'll take a few days to make my way up to now. Then I can finally have some photos to go along with my blog.
Bank of America customer service phone number
Updated August 5, 2006: I’ve found a new way to reach a BofA customer representative, at least in California: Call 1-800-622-8731, which is listed in the BofA’s Contact Us page. Press 1 for more options, then press *. I’ve removed the old information, since it just seemed to be confusing people.
Montreal
Last month I was in Montreal for the CHI conference. I came away impressed by the city; it really is a wonderful blend of Europe and North America. (The signs are all in French, but everyone speaks English!) The original city center still has blocks and blocks of historic buildings intact, while downtown and surrounding …
PhD Comics creator at Stanford
Jorge Cham did speak at Stanford after all, which was good for me since it made my drive a lot shorter (although I was prepared to drive up to Berkeley…). And his talk was one of the funniest I’ve ever been to. It was also packed; the Clark Center Auditorium was filled with guffawing grad …
PhD Comics creator speaking at Berkeley
I'll take a day off if I have to: Jorge Cham, the creator of the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, is speaking at UC Berkeley on May 4. (For a while, he was also tentatively scheduled to speak at Stanford the next day, but that just disappeared from his web site.) It's the Dilbert …
Visiting Mars and Cuba… in San Jose
Two Saturdays ago Brian, Will, and I went to the Tech Museum of Innovation to check it out. None of us had been there for years, so we wanted to see what it was like now. Well, sadly, we all found that it was mainly focused on kids and that we had outgrown it. So …
My del.icio.us bookmarks
By the way, in case anyone is interested, my del.icio.us bookmarks are at del.icio.us/jlin45d. They are even more random than this blog.