September 2009
27 posts
Trying to explain to children how suspension bridges work. (@ Golden Gate Bridge in SF) http://bit.ly/2Mk8Cv
I’m at Pauline’s Pizza (260 Valencia Street, 14th St, San Francisco). http://bit.ly/oWsfG
Drinking moonshine @stanley00’s wedding. Yum!
Congratulations @stanley00!! (@ 1045 Divisadero in SF) http://bit.ly/YUNsg
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
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: “If you’re using a mac or an iPhone, you’re using code that my grad students and I wrote in 1983”. #gatescenter #cmu
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 can disappear faster than Batman. #cmugates
Bill Gates on piracy: “I’m sure people who get my vaccinations don’t think ‘i’m glad somebody paid for software’ ” #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