TITLE: I'm famous (sort of) AUTHOR: david DATE: 6/25/2007 05:15:00 PM ----- BODY: I was waiting in line for the Apple Store on Stockton to open last Friday when a nice young woman approached me and asked if I would be open to be interviewed. Never one to be shy, I agreed and divulged some personal details such as my name, job, etc... and some thoughts about the iPhone I had. She was doing some interviewing to help out a colleague from New York from the AP, and the story got published today. You can check it out all over the net: CNN.com WTOP News Courant The Washington Post I haven't seen a printed copy, but I'll keep my eye on the local papers. Kinda fun :) Even if I am a "Oakland Web Programmer, 21..."

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BLOGGERID: 4443128476608449211 -------- TITLE: shasta with snow! AUTHOR: david DATE: 2/24/2007 06:56:00 PM ----- BODY: It has been raining around Chico for the last couple days, which means it's been snowing up at Tahoe and Shasta! At work on Friday, Cavan asked me if I wanted to go to Mt. Shasta with a friend of his. Not one to turn down a snowboarding trip, I agreed and we were off at 5:30am this morning (bleh.) What I didn't know was that his friend is from his from home town, which happens to be Maui, Hawaii. This guy has never seen snow. Well, until today :) We drove north on I-5 in the rain and, sure enough, just past Dunsmuir the rain turned to sleet which turned to fully-fledged snow. We started seeing patches of snow on the ground. I tend to get excited when I see the snow, but I can't even remember the very first time I saw snow. This guy was freaking out, taking a couple dozen pictures through the window and marveling and how cold the whole experience was. Needless to say, there is currently about 4 feet of snow at Shasta, and it dumped about a half-foot on us today - with no sign of letting up! Here's a snapshot of the parking lot of the hotel taken with the iSight of my MBP: snow Anyway, I still love snowboarding. I really do. But I'm pissed at the guy because he'd never been snowboarding a day in his life, and totally rocks the board now. He barely fell at all, and never once off the lift :-/

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