October 28th, 2007
I haven’t been posting much lately, and most of you know why. The last 10 days for me have been very intense with travel, job changes, and moving. I have covered San Diego, Minneapolis and Phoenix/Scottsdale in one week, and come very close to losing my mind on a few occasions. While on one hand this has all become normal over the last few years, the last week has been more intense than usual, and I’m starting to reach serious sleep depravation.
On the plus side, had some really exciting things happening at work, and we are of course very excited to be living in the Bay area, which is a bit of a dream come true. It is sad to leave friends, but that is why we have a second bedroom, there is always room at our place.
Next update will probably be from SFO, but you can also follow me on Twitter here if you are interested in what town I happen to be in, and if I’m in your town, have dinner or something.
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October 27th, 2007
… is where all our stuff is right now. Our moving company has this lil’ feature where computer geeks can track the GPS positioning of their cargo on-line. And of course I need to check in with that website a couple times a day 
It is very odd to see our apartment so empty — it looks huge and not ours anymore. Another note to self: sleeping on an air mattress is rarely worth it. Last week has been crazy busy with work and packing, and now the weekend is crazy with cleaning and partying. While all I honestly want to do is sleep, I do realize this is my last weekend in a while to hang out with all my dear friends so staying at home would be a shame.
The good news is that despite all this stress, I am slowly getting very excited about the move– see you in San Francisco!
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October 10th, 2007
This morning someone very close has forsaken me. We have been together for almost two years. The relationship has been intense: we keep in touch several times a day every day. I would even check up on them from abroad while traveling. You might even say I have developed an unhealthy dependency — but it didn’t really matter because we were always there for each other and never got bored. Then, all of a sudden, without a warning or explanation, we went our separate ways. There were no parting words, no apologies. For a little while, I pretended that it was not happening, that the magic would just come back. No such luck. It has been almost a full day alone and my stress level is going through the roof, I am feeling vulnerable, disoriented, and very helpless. And yet, despite the sense of loss and betrayal, I still hope that we can mend things between us. Call me a dreamer but I keep looking for what I have lost wishing that we can pick up where we left off, get together like nothing has happened, and move on with our lives and our special friendship.
This morning my Gmail account stopped receiving incoming messages.
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October 9th, 2007
3 weeks before our big move, and we finally got an apartment out in San Francisco! What a relief– I now have an address and can stop my daily inspections of craigslist. The unit is centrally located, reasonably priced, has space for visiting friends (that would be you), its own private rooftop, a garage, and (drum roll please!) an extra parking spot for the guests. Can you believe it? Pictures to come soon, and if I know you personally I will send you the physical address too.
Now if we can only find a renter for our condo…
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October 7th, 2007
I spent most of my day today as a course marshal at Twin Cities Marathon. I was patrolling the 24th mile mark which made for very emotional people watching. A big obstacle for this year’s runners was the heat– the temperature got as high as 83F with 87F heat index. In Minnesota. In October. People were complaining of heat and water shortages and I saw plenty of heat exhaustion on the course. Luckily, our weather was not as bad as the conditions at Chicago marathon that happened to be on the same day this year — over there the course was shut down 4 hours after the start after 1 person died and over 49 were taken to the hospital due to the heat. Just imagine struggling through humid heat for several hours only to be stopped a few miles before the finish. No wonder a lot of the runners in Chicago ended up finishing the race without the support of the volunteers and the water stations.
I am not going to insert a global warming comment here as not to attract comments that I am confusing weather for climate but still. Normal? I don’ think so.
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October 6th, 2007
I was really impressed the amount of coverage around the blogosphere surrounding Radiohead’s recent decision to allow fans to decide how much to pay for their next album. First, great PR, considering the coverage, and second, a great experiment in what music is worth in the 21st century. Here’s an overview of the coverage I’ve been seeing.
And this is just a few from sources I’ve been following. For a while I was rather pissed at Radiohead for so specifically avoiding iTunes, which is the most convenient and quick way for me to get music (I’m happy to pay for music, if the prices are reasonable and I have some reasonable level flexibility in how I can use the tunes). And it is for this reason that I will be paying an iTunes like price for In Rainbows - somewhere between $9.99 and $14.99, or possibly $0.99 per song, just to make the point.
UPDATE: Also found good coverage at last100 and Mashable.
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October 4th, 2007
I was scanning through yet another brain candy top 20 list, this time of innovations that have redefined college experience, when I realized that either a) technology moves too fast b) I am old c) all of the above since only old people think that technology moves too fast.
Look, I am not THAT old. I am still in my 20’s and I graduated from college in 2001. Still, out of 20 items on the list, I can only count 4 that were actively used on my campus. While some of the things are obviously too new to have been popular in a small Iowan college in 2000, such as Facebook or an iPod, others were already in existence but anywhere near the state they’re in now. Of course, we had the internet but Google was not a household name yet and wikipedia was not around to help us during test time. Cell phones were available but SMS epidemic hasn’t picked up yet. Only one in about ten students had a personal laptop. Redbull was not keeping us up at night. The library didn’t have the Wi-Fi and people were not using bitTorrent either. I actually had a land phone line and the computers in the student center didn’t have the peripherals to support VoIP.
Oh-my-sweet-friggin-jebus! How did I survive and succeed in those dark times? Can this even be counted as college education or should be rendered obsolete by technology police? I am old!
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