November 2011
5 posts
Rockettes Xmas spectacular with the kids! (@ Radio City Christmas Spectacular Open House w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/xUHrdRqJ
I forgot that sometimes companies don’t have their parties in abandoned offices. (@ Culture Club w/ 6 others) http://t.co/m2iA5Gf1
.@benpopper & @betabeat have confused my love of poached eggs with my “poachability”. I love that @harryh made the list - as if.
RT @zackzachariah: This article sums up why I am glad to use a type-checked, compiled, and debuggable language server-side: http://t.co/ …
I have no idea how the groupon IPO will turn out, but all the negative coverage reminds me of the stories right before Google’s IPO at $85.
October 2011
9 posts
So now I own a chainsaw. Had fun bonding with other guys complaining about the storm in the chainsaw aisle. http://t.co/sFuQRvOr
Dumb happiness hack: I made a todo list for tomorrow, then I stayed up late and did it all tonight!
Nerd conundrum: I want to say “I’ve found a way to radically optimize …” but my internal grammar nerd won’t let me split an infinitive.
Aaaand I just made a pot of coffee without putting in the actual coffee #signsyouneedmorecoffee
This is pretty much the hottest NYC startup social event ever. Everyone is here. (@ New York Stock Exchange) http://t.co/IkqUyWW7
RT @brandondiamond: Who else is wearing jeans and black tomorrow?
You should go to apple.com right now, then watch http://t.co/CLnyR8zd … “The only thing you can’t do is ignore them” Think Different.
RT @shontelaylay: As someone who’s been waiting for the iPhone 5 for over a year now, i’m pretty bummed.
As @dingbetz puts it, “People who buy cars have jobs. They work during the week. They want to buy cars on the weekend.”
September 2011
4 posts
I love it when a plan comes together.
Why does high adrenaline make me want MOAR COFFEE? I’m considering asking for a super-venti… (@ Starbucks) http://t.co/LgI6hgdO
Made it for the green belt test!!! (@ Talium Tae Kwon Do) http://t.co/PivSqDzA
Back again! (@ The Coffee Shop w/ 3 others) http://t.co/2y725hwb
Trying to explain to children how suspension bridges work. (@ Golden Gate Bridge in SF) http://bit.ly/2Mk8Cv
Drinking moonshine @stanley00’s wedding. Yum!
Congratulations @stanley00!! (@ 1045 Divisadero in SF) http://bit.ly/YUNsg
I’m at Pauline’s Pizza (260 Valencia Street, 14th St, San Francisco). http://bit.ly/oWsfG
First really interesting @foursquare experience: noticing that @harryh is also visiting SF today.
I just ousted Miles R. as the mayor of Hotel Kabuki on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/Rami2
Rick Rashid: “If you’re using a mac or an iPhone, you’re using code that my grad students and I wrote in 1983”. #gatescenter #cmu
Oh hey Bill Gates just walked by! #cmuGates.
Watching demos of snake robots @ CMU - fewer than 60 days until first use in an operation on a human! #cmuGates
Rick Rashid: “During the summer, Microsoft Research is the largest academic computer science institution in the world” #cmu #gatescenter
Bill Gates: “I think people will be very surprised by the pace of progress in robotics.”. #cmugates
Bill Gates: “the connection between CMU and Microsoft has never been stronger”.
Randy Bryant: “we live in Pittsburgh, where navigation is a three dimensional process” #cmugates
Ready for Bill Gates keynote @ CMU - close enough to the front to enjoy playing “spot the Computer Science celebrity” #cmugates
Bill Gates: “That’s how to give away $30 billion, if you have that problem. Warren Buffet did.” #cmugates
Gates keynote: short, sweet, inspiring. #cmugates.
Bill Gates on piracy: “I’m sure people who get my vaccinations don’t think ‘i’m glad somebody paid for software’ ” #cmugates
Bill Gates can disappear faster than Batman. #cmugates
Pulled out my iPhone 3GS at a birthday party today.A mom asked “does that have a camera?”.It seems there is life outside the tech bubble.
Reading about soda tax (http://bit.ly/30ZuAc) - it does not seem to include sweetened coffee. If it passes, I’m putting all my $$ into $SBUX
Looking forward to the opening of the Gates/Hillman center at CMU next week. Let me know if you’ll be on campus.
Please Drive Your Kids to School →
The article in Sunday’s Times about driving your kids to school has generated a lot of discussion. I just posted a mini-rant in Reader about this, and figured it was worth…
Who else expects Mint to languish at Intuit? Maybe now is the time to enter the web personal finance space. http://bit.ly/wdaZp
Finally tried out http://diagrammr.com. @krave++!
I just unlocked the “Bender” badge on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/s4BhJ
No kidding, the more I watch Mad Men, the more I like books.
I just became the mayor of NJ Transit on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/nuLpE
August 2009
6 posts
Bourbon and BBQ! (@ Blue Smoke in NYC) http://bit.ly/mnWmt
I just ousted @ostatus as the mayor of Blue Smoke on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/mnWmt
I’m at Black Door (127 West 26th St, btw Sixth and Seventh Avenues, New York). http://bit.ly/1QXAc1
Woohoo! Ran 12.5 miles this morning @ 10:28/mile. Great way to kick off the weekend. Let me reiterate: Woohoo!
Wow, Facebook just brought in a load of amazingly talented engineers: http://bit.ly/2zMucK