Down and out for nearly two weeks! It's been frustrating. But I'm finally out and about.
Man!
Apparently, the pneumonia is going around though. Another friend just came down with it. What?!
Category: life
Pneumonia is the worst.
This sickness swooped in out of nowhere! I've been out of action for 7 days and counting now!
Daily social media digest for June 2nd
A summary of things I've shared around the Internet today.
 | The World Cup is guaranteed to be exciting if for no other reason than Argentina coach Diego Maradona's antics: http://dave.ly/maradona [rockbandit] |
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 | Shared My past AT&T data usage. |
 | Published Blu in Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Why so much negativity over AT&T's data plan pricing changes? I know it's the fashionable thi... http://gdg.to/a3DGaz [rockbandit] |
 | Shared Cleavage on Cool Hunting. |
| It's like a photographic pun! "[...] the cleavages photographed are actually the butt cracks of men and women." http://dave.ly/notcleavage [rockbandit] |
| Published BP parody billboards. |
 | Shared [Using Yourls With Tweetie 2 for iPhone |
| RT @huffingtonpost: WOW: Pitcher loses perfect game with controversial call in 9th inning. http://huff.to/amEIv3 (via @HuffPostSports) [rockbandit] |
This often happens...
I get the strangest email.
There is a group of people who have me mixed up for someone else and keep sending me email. I've replied and emailed them on numerous occasions that I am the incorrect person, yet I still receive weird and even awkward emails.
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Err... what? Here's another gem. Names blocked out.
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Yikes! I feel bad for the poor little dude, whoever he is. That said: Reply to all -> "Hi, I think you have the wrong person."
A few weeks later, another email.
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Ahhh!
What did Grandpa just say?!
"David is a whore..."
That's not something you expect to hear at a family party, let alone come out of your grandfather's mouth.
I'm in Southern California for the weekend to celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday with family and friends. Since I'm traveling light and with my new toy, I decided to bring along my iPad.
After arriving and saying our hellos, I gave the iPad to my Grandpa, who was sitting at a table with a number of his friends. He briefly looked at it and passed it around. After getting it back, he opened up the Notes application and read something off the screen.
"David is a whore..."
What?!
Everyone started laughing, and I did too. I knew my Grandpa was a funny person, but I'd never heard him make a joke like that before. I was pretty confused and wondered if we've crossed some new line of humor with my family. He looked at me and said, "No, really. That's what it says!"
He handed the iPad to me. And sure enough, I saw this on the screen:
It turns out that my sister had apparently used my iPad without my knowledge and decided to leave me a special message that I might find at a later time.
Well played, Sister. Well played.
Grocery divider etiquette
Are you constantly confused on who is responsible for putting a grocery divider down when in line at the check out stand? It's a dilemma that I often find myself in as well. Stephen Pastis breaks is down.
I am constantly confused by the rules of etiquette for the little plastic dividers you use to separate your groceries from the other guy’s groceries on the conveyor belt at checkout. I never know if it’s my responsibility to lay it down behind my own groceries, or if it’s my responsibility to lay it down behind the guy’s groceries ahead of me. Sometimes I end up doing both, guarding the front and the rear. That makes me mad, because it means someone in line has shirked their responsibilities. It’s people like that who deserve to pay for my wandering Wonder Bread should it stray across our shared border. [...] But yesterday, I decided to do something new. Rather than set the divider down perpendicular to the conveyor belt, thereby neatly walling off my groceries from everybody else’s, I laid it down parallel to the belt, right down the middle of my own groceries.
Picked up a new bike!
I picked up a new bike this weekend from someone on Craigslist! A ~1995 Schwinn Passage in perfect condition. It's a great little touring bike and I've already put 25 miles on it.
The Haitian Earthquake
Photo via the United Nations photo stream on flickr.
The latest news and the images coming out of Haiti are absolutely tragic and indescribable. My heart goes out to those affected by the earthquake. I wish there was more that we could do. For now the best thing to do is donate toward the relief and recovery efforts. Google also has a pretty comprehensive page for Haitian disaster relief.
You can see some of the latest images from Port-au-Prince here (via flickr).
Photo via U.S. Department of Defense on flickr.
Photo via U.S. Air Force on flickr.
2009 - The Year in Review (Photos)
A new year, and a new decade are upon us! Here is my annual photographic review of the year. More travels, moving, a new job. So sit down and come along for the ride.
You can also see my past year in reviews for 2008 and 2007.
January 2009
January started out with a short, surprise trip down the coast to Half Moon Bay and Moss Beach. Kerry surprised me for my birthday, and we stayed at a phenomenal bed and breakfast for the weekend.
MacWorld came to town. It was my first time visiting the convention. Naturally, we geeked out on all the cool companies that were demoing products.
San Francisco residents wasted no time in finding something to protest over.
One of my favorite punk bands of all time, Tsunami Bomb, reunited for one final show in Petaluma.
February 2009
A number of friends embarked on the great Burrito Ingredients Scavenger Hunt: scouring the city's taquerias for the best individual ingredients they have, and building our own, epic burrito.
My sister was in town for a brief visit.
This year, instead of checking out the annual pillow fight, a few of us decided to check out Toronado's annual Barley Wine Festival.
We paid a visit to the Mission for the Grilled Cheese Sandwich battle.
March 2009
Donated some blood. (Gross!)
Awaited the results of the California Supreme Court's ruling on Prop 8.
Had a good view from my apartment of a rally for Tibet, as they marched towards the Chinese Consulate.
I walked across the entire Golden Gate Bridge for the first time in my life.
Pi-Day celebrations! 3.14
Took a stroll through Golden Gate Park. Beautiful as always.
April 2009
We went on a backpacking trip to Big Basin State Park
May 2009
Another month, another backpacking trip! This time, to California's Lost Coast.
Attended the Maker Faire and saw some great art and inventions.
June 2009
A curious cat.
Robogames 2009!
July 2009
Enjoying some drinks on a lazy summer day.
Kerry and I took a whale watching trip out to the Farallon Islands.
August 2009
We had our gdgt SF party to celebrate the launch of our website!
Big road trip time! We embarked for Canada.
Sawtooth Range in Northern Idaho
More of Idaho
Hamilton, Montana
Kootenay National Park, Canada
Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada
Banff, Canada
Vancouver, BC
Victoria, BC
Space Needle in Seattle
Mount Rainier
Mount St. Helens
Oregon Caves National Monument
We returned from our road trip to cheer our friends on in SF Food Wars.
September 2009
Got to shoot an Apple Keynote / Stevenote for gdgt!
Cal Academy
Walked around San Francisco and took some random photos.
Someone in the neighborhood must have been pretty angry with Muni.
Flew to New York City at the end of the month for gdgt's NYC launch party. Hello Virgin America!
NYC!
October 2009
Visited New York City for the gdgt NYC event. While there, I visited the newly created High Line Park.
gdgt NYC at the Manhattan Center!
The Blue Angels came to town for Fleet Week 2009
Headed up to Tomales Bay for some friendly oyster shucking.
Wished my apartment of the past 3 years, so long!
Last sunset at the apartment. It was fantastic as always.
Adjusted to living with one of my new roommates.
The end of October meant that Halloween parties were neigh!
Walking through our neighborhood at night.
November 2009
Since I had recently purchased a Canon S90, I decided that the Cal Academy would be the perfect place to break it in.
Checked out the museum at SFO
Beautiful fall days in San Francisco
Beautiful fall nights in San Francisco
San Francisco sunset
December 2009
Kerry and I saw Cirque du Soleil's OVO show when it came to town.
(And I got yelled at for taking photos...)
Attended the Laughing Squid Un-holiday Party at the Gallery With No Name. And saw their neon Jelly Fish.
Don't forget, Santacon / Santarchy made an appearance in San Francisco!
Some of my companions during the day. (Because the only currency on the internet are cat photos).
