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Month: July 2006

  • One Hot Summer Weekend

    So it was one hot weekend to be sure. 90’s in Seattle? No thanks. On Friday I took a ferry home to my parents house and spent the evening with family. I made cupcakes my cousins. Or rather, ate cupcakes my cousins made. My Dad even busted out the sparkling cider for the ocassion, hah.…

  • Purple Dot Cafe

    Today we went to the Purple Dot Cafe for dim sum to celebrate Ryan’s birthday (7/24) and it was pretty good. I tend to go to only two places in Intl. District for dim sum: House of Hong and Four Seas (mainly out of familiarity), so it was nice to try somewhere new. We found…

  • Tufte Nerd Out

    “…the nature or matter of the Milky Way itself, which, with the aid of the spyglass, may be observed so well that all the disputes that for so many generations have vexed philosophers are destroyed by visible certainty, and we are liberated from wordy arguments.” Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius (Venice, 1610). As mentioned earlier, I…

  • Fourth of July Weekend

    I always start writing blog entries and then never post them. My list of drafts saved in WordPress testifies to this. I don’t think it’s perfectionism, but I will admit though that I spend an odious amount of time on my blog entries, regardless of how trivial the subject matter, ultimately deciding to “finish is…

  • Edward Tufte Course

    I went to an Edward Tufte seminar today at the Westin for work. I completely geeked out; it was a lot of fun. More on this later (after I consult my notes).

  • Tired of the Pike

    Yesterday I went to the Pike Pub and Brewery with some co-workers. Interestingly enough, this is probably the fourth time I’ve gone there where it took 30-40 minutes for our food to arrive. Not to mention it’s the third time they’ve been out of their Pike Weiss beer. I like their food and all, but…

  • Domokun Remix of Balmer’s “4 Words”

    For those familiar with Balmer’s “Developers, developers, developers, developers” line, here’s the Domokun remix. Makes me laugh to no end. On another note, here’s a video of Steve Balmer at the Avenue A | Razorfish Client Summit with a new spin on the four words.

  • End of Quarter

    So this week was a tizzy. And when I say tizzy, I mean a week of late nights at the office and two client presentations within 24 hours in two states. That aside, the work was good (AOR). Thank God for the four-day weekend. Sunset View from Work Funny, for the first time it truly…