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I was walking to work today, when I briefly passed by an older, slightly drunk white gentlemen, rambling to himself on the street. That’s not really uncommon, so I nod as we pass and enter into work. When my co-workers and I departed for lunch, the same gentleman was sitting on the sidewalk on the [...]
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SF Nostalgia
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Belated Stories: The Bay Area Society of Freeloaders
One of my friends had an HTC phone and it reminded me of this: Sometime in mid 2010 (that year sort of blurs together for me now), I was living in San Francisco and happened across a Facebook post for an HTC party. Being the geeky technophile I am, the idea of a party for [...]
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Home Security
Office Depot had a fire resistant file box on sale, and since the evening news seems to have at least one or two major apartment fires every couple of nights, I figured it might be a good idea to get one so some of my more important documents had a chance to survive in case [...]
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Remembering to Use Technology
I recently took a 1 day seminar at the Knight Digital Media Center that served as an overview of using new media [primarily in journalism] but also for our new website. For me, it really was more validation, but they explained things in a clear way to my coworkers that I have always struggled with. [...]
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Holy #*@ I’m back
I had made this blog with the promise of reporting the mundane, yet slightly interesting parts of my life. I guess my excuse for the lack of updates is that I had been doing nothing but interesting things since christmas 2009, the highlight of which was going to India. I have a pretty filled written [...]
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Ticket Master
In the course of a week I was graced with not just one but three parking tickets. Averaging $50 dollars each, this has almost justified renting a garage in my neighborhood at the barging rate of $200 dollars a month. On the other side of the spectrum, I could also just sell my car and [...]
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