TITLE: Thoughts on Übergeek Immersion AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/09/2007 10:15:00 PM ----- BODY: This post has been a long time in the making, both in my head, and now in type. Many people have written about this subject before, and certainly many people will after me, so this is just my take on things and from my point of view. Take is for what it’s worth. I suffer from what I have best seen defined as N.A.D.D. If you have not read this article, please do so now. (Command + Click the link) I’ll wait. That’s Rands’ way of putting things, and it is what resonates most with me. It describes how I can’t sit still on a computer. There are a thousand different things I could be doing, therefore I must do all of them. And the only way to be remotely successful at doing everything is to multitask - do many things simultaneously. This behavior comes in many forms - I browse the mobile version of bloglines on my iPhone with the latest album blaring when I ride the bus for instance - but manifests itself most strikingly when I sit down with my computer at any given point. When I open my computer, I have e-mail, a feed reader, my IDE, tomorrow’s presentation, and at least a half-dozen browser tabs open on any range of completely different topics. I’m at the point where I read both Digg and Slashdot daily, peruse Engadget and TechCrunch and even Valleywag on occassion. I’m subscribed to over 100 feeds - all of which ping me when they’re updated. Not to mention AIM, which I’ve been known to live on for days at a time. It’s information overload. And more and more I’m finding out that none of it matters. Or, I should say, very little of it matters. I was tipped off with my trip to Seattle a few weekends ago. We left on Thursday night and didn’t return until the wee hours of the following Monday morning - a full 3 days away from home - and I didn’t take my laptop. I limited myself to just checking email on my friend’s iMac once per day, something most would consider “normal”. I wanted to see if the world would keep spinning if I left it alone for a few days. It did. When I returned, I had nearly a thousand unread items in my feed reader, pages of digg to catch up on, and scores of forum posts to read and comment on. It was overwhelming to say the least. What I did haunts me to this day: I pressed “mark all as read”. I didn’t open a single one of them. Nope, not a one. I went to class on Monday, as usual, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I didn’t miss out on any random conversation before class, nor did anyone laugh at me for not knowing that Samsung’s new ZX-8000 had spy pictures leaked in Japan. I didn’t know that Kottke had posted linked a New York Times article about a restaurant owner being sued over his tomato soup and how ridiculous the world is. I had no idea. And I was strangely comfortable with it. I thought about it some, and checked a few things out. I realized that I have a choice in the world I live in. One is a world of A-List bloggers that keep up with the latest Web trends, already talk about Web 4.0, and link to each other with articles from other A-List bloggers until nobody remembers where shit came from anymore. There’s nothing bad about this all-digital world, and I would love to be in it if I had the time. But that’s the most precious resource to this group - time. If you aren’t in the first 10 comments, you might as well pack up and go home. If you link to something half a day late, you’re toast. If you think you have a scoop only to find out that Michael Arrington has had beta access for a month and a half, you fail. There’s something I found out about these people that live. This Lifestyle is their full time job. They literally get paid to live The Lifestyle. From Gruber to Kottke to Arrington to CmdrTaco, it’s the life they live, and we reap the benefits as consumers and they reap the benefits for doing us their respected service. I had the pleasure of spending some time with Anil “LOLCats and Goatse” Dash, who turned out to be an incredibly nice and down to earth guy, but he is just plugged in. He can’t get away from it, or he’d almost be doing a disservice to his cultish following. It sucks you in, this life does, and it’s incredibly hard to escape. Enter Me. I’m a 4th year (going on 5) Computer Science student who doesn’t really care about school more than just graduating and moving on. I’m not an A-List blogger, but I keep up with and read the best of them. I’ve been beta tester on some cool Web Two Dot Oh apps, and had a gmail invite before they hit eBay. My problem is that I don’t have a niche yet. I am a self-proclaimed Jack of All Trades, Master of None. I “sorta-kinda” know a lot of things - most of the major scripting languages, some database stuff, some sysadmin stuff, some embedded systems programming, a bit about hardware; I know how the internet works, and how to make a browser do a bit of DOM magic; I also keep up with all the internet memes. I know all the references in the Internet People YouTube Montage. So where do I fit in? My problem is that I’m not plugged into any of these things, I just know enough to get me by. I can’t focus on any one thing for some reason, and my guess is that it’s for fear of “wasting time”. In this world of N.A.D.D. it doesn’t take any time at all to check a blog. I find myself skimming the long posts because they take too long to read, or I keep marking them unread until I just say fuck it and move on with my life - if the author can’t say something in 2 skimmable paragraphs then it is not worth my time. I browse slashdot at +4 or +5 because anything else just doesn’t matter. It’s the thought that “I’m not wasting time if I check my feeds”, because I can get through them in 2 minutes anyway. Of course it’s only because I just checked them 5 minutes ago, and only one of them has updated. Where does this leave me? I’ve been incredibly unproductive for the last few months. I can’t seem to finish anything, and I can’t focus on school or work or even my own blog (which has been on a near two-month hiatus). I put this all together in my Software Engineering class when my teacher mentioned a thing called Flow. Flow. It’s a mental state that you’ve experienced before. It happens when you line up a shot in golf. You feel it when you drive fast in the rain and your tires slip, putting you in that hyper-aware mental state. Or, in the context of my class, you experience it when you are coding a big project. You are in the zone completely. You know what variables are instantiated in what scope and exactly what they’re doing and why. Every function is in your own human RAM, callable at a moments notice when you need it. You feel Flow. It’s a mental state that is difficult to achieve, and perhaps more difficult to obtain. It can take hours at a time to get to that state, but a single second to snap out of it. It can be the ring of a telephone or the bleep of an email notification that snaps you out of it, but it’s complete programmer’s bliss while you’ve got it. The problem with The Lifestyle is that it doesn’t require Flow to maintain it. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. You live in 15 second blurbs. You read a page while you have 3 more loading in the background because you don’t have time to wait around watching the page take form as the data is transferred from the remote servers. All this is happening, of course, while you’re debugging that 5-line script you are writing - any longer, of course, would require a train of thought that lasts longer than half a minute. When your email beeps, you command-tab-command-1 it, grok it, take action, and move on in mere seconds. The Lifestyle Becomes your Flow. If you can’t use quicksilver to eject a disk image (after calculating the number of milliseconds saved over using expose to view the desktop, select the image, and command-e it) then perhaps you don’t understand where I’m coming from. So what now? I’m addicted... Turns out, it’s a choice. Ask anyone who’s had a company-wide productivity meeting. Set a time - once an hour or twice a day perhaps - to check your email is what they say. Same thing with your feed reader. If you can’t read through all of them in one block of time once a day, then perhaps you have too many. Categorize them into “Must Read” down to “Only read on a Lazy Sunday”. Don’t even visit Digg. Unsubscribe from Engadget - you will thank me later. You have to realize that Life will go on whether you are caught up in the details or not. My grandpa used to let the phone ring (there was no answering machine) while he was watching Wheel of Fortune, lest anyone interrupt his TV time. “If it’s important”, he used to say, “they’ll call back”. It’s true. If the news is really that important, it’ll find you, I promise. Even as I write this, I had to close out everything else. I turned off my wi-fi, and migrated to one Space. I’m even writing in a plain text editor because anything else has too many buttons. As it is, I’m in the window of a coffee shop and am distracted enough by people watching. So I have to ask, did you skim this article? Was it “tl;dr”, or did you go through it line by line? I’m not offended either way, but take a look around, seriously... how many apps you you have open right now? :P

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BLOGGERID: 5598968362223597248 -------- TITLE: AUTHOR: david DATE: 9/19/2007 12:29:00 AM ----- BODY: After returning from the cruise to Alaska, I've managed to keep quite busy. Busy enough indeed to neglect this blog for over a month! Certainly not for lack of anything to write about! I've got a bunch of progress on the autonomous car project (okay, someone think up a good name for this thing, quick!) but I think I'll hold off on that for a bit more until I can do a full write-up. I'll just note that I've got the i2c bus working across the board, which means that the sonar is hooked up and the thing can finally move! Quite exciting indeed. Last Sunday I went on a mountain bike ride with Router Dave on a couple trails I'd never been on before. We Chicoans are so lucky to have such a nice park so close to us. After a ~4 mile trek straight down the canyon, I thought it would be a good idea to cool off by jumping into the creek at Bear Hole. It was nice, but when I was climbing a rock my foot slipped a few inches straight into a pile of broken glass where someone had smashed a bottle. Much blood and pain followed: Sorry for the graphic image, but that's my foot after all! Please note that this happened about a mile above where the gate was locked and across the creek from the road, so there was a fair amount of gunk accumulated in the wound after a nice swim and bike ride down to Dave's waiting parents. (thanks again for the help!) I am also in a fair amount of (non-physical) pain because my trusty MacBook Pro's keyboard and trackpad suddenly stopped working last week. Of course I feel naked without having a computer I can tote anywhere - sans external keyboard and mouse. After a couple phone calls to the Apple store, it was made clear that I'd have to send the computer in and sell my soul to pay for it. Did I mention I was just under 20 days out of warranty? *sigh* I went to the bookstore on campus - our local Apple authorized reseller - and begged the manager to order me the part and let me install it myself. After 2 trips and much pleading on my part he finally gave in and ordered me a new topcase for wholesale price! What a nice guy :) Of course this means that I'm on my own for installation and I can throw any warranty out the window, but I love excitement. I'll keep you posted how the install goes next Thursday or Friday when the part comes in. That's all for now. Until next time, keep on truckin'.

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BLOGGERID: 1098614558344287137 -------- 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: zomg twenty one at last! AUTHOR: david DATE: 5/30/2007 08:36:00 PM ----- BODY: I'm still kinda hungover, but that's the news: I'm now legal to go into bars :) Check the madness on RMFD's Flickrset. That look in my eye about halfway through... yeah, that's the look of "I'm not going to remember this tomorrow, but am okay with that."

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BLOGGERID: 8407274129460812978 -------- TITLE: 3 day weekend in the bay AUTHOR: david DATE: 4/02/2007 08:34:00 AM ----- BODY: We got Friday off from school (and therefore work for me) thanks to César Chávez, so I took the extra day to go down and take care of business in the Bay Area. On Thursday, I drove with Lauren down to San José in time for my sister's birthday on Friday (Happy 25th, Sarah!) which was pretty sweet. On Saturday, I drove north and dropped Lauren off at her home in Millbrae for her to spend the day with her family, and continued up to San Francisco where I met up with Michael and Andrew for the day. We geeked out for a bit - Andrew just announced the Partigen component for Adobe Flash he's been working on for almost a year. It's pretty amazing, check it out! After spending the night in San José again, Lauren and I drove south to Santa Cruz where we spent Sunday afternoon lazing around on the beach. Then - you guessed it - we drove back to San José to have a wonderful dinner with my family before driving north yet again - by way of San Francisco - to Chico where we finally got in just before 1am this morning. Phew, that was a lot of driving, but more than worth it :)

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BLOGGERID: 4638583130406472736 -------- TITLE: spring break '07 - better luck next year AUTHOR: david DATE: 3/25/2007 04:03:00 PM ----- BODY: This year for spring break (which was all last week) I didn't do a heck of a lot. I spent the first half of the week or so up at "the cabin" - my family's house up in Trinity Center. While there, I guess my body decided enough is enough, so it decided to get sick just to make me miserable :P That didn't stop me from doing a bit of brush clearing (I swear I felt like George W.) and even digging a hole to fix a burst pipe: Upon returning, I lazed around the house a bit, went to work, and tried to get over the sickness. Well, it's Sunday - my last day of freedom - and I finally feel borderline human again. Just in time for classes to start up again. Wonderful. Better luck next year, eh?

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BLOGGERID: 8786426420753528567 -------- TITLE: dave + mountain board + pavement = ? AUTHOR: david DATE: 2/28/2007 09:30:00 PM ----- BODY: Yeah, so about that previous post. That is indeed a picture of my chin, taken with my cell phone a few hours ago. Let me explain. I was on my roommate's mountain board, mobbin' down this crazy hill and took this 12' kicker and tried to do a rodeo stalefish, but when I got inverted, ... Okay, so it's a bit more awesome embarrassing than that. I'm not going to go into the details, but it happened in my backyard on a newly-built ghetto ramp courtesy of Beau. Long story short, I hit the pavement face-first. Arlen was kind enough to leave his WOW game to drive me to the hospital to have it checked out by someone with a license to practice medicine. After a minimal wait, and a few bad jokes with the assisting nurse, the tech came in to my corner-gurney to give me a tetanus shot and apply the local anesthetic. Several pokes with a needle (some going straight into the meat of the wound - did I mention pain?) later, the real doc' came in and stitched me up. There are 4 stitches on the inner layer of skin which will dissolve away with time, and 8 stitches on the surface of my face which I'll have to get removed in about a week. So, what you've all been waiting for, the carnage :) If you have a weak stomach, I'd watch out... Getting ready to take off the band-aid for the first time My face after the fact A close-up of the stitches (for my geek dad) You know, it's funny. I've done some pretty crazy, pretty dumb stuff over the years, but I've never broken a bone or had stitches before (save the time I was 4 and broke a china cup...). I almost consider myself lucky. Anyway, my chin hurts, and I think I have a leftover vicodin somewhere. That sounds really good about now... *** EDIT Just uploaded these little gems from my cell phone: Inside the hospital, taken by Arlen (thanks for everything, btw. I owe you!)) There's a bunch of these all over my back patio now, as well as in Arlen's bathroom (okay, I really owe you!)

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BLOGGERID: 7404242362154958983 -------- TITLE: A Picture Share! AUTHOR: david DATE: 2/28/2007 05:47:00 PM ----- BODY: Ouch.

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BLOGGERID: 148158758420640371 -------- TITLE: recap AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/14/2007 04:08:00 PM ----- BODY: I found myself in San Francisco yet again yesterday. I met up with Shawna again, who moved there last Sunday. We did the downtown thing, I spent my AE gift cards (and then some) and perused the mall and the such. In the afternoon, I met up with a guy I met in Chico who helped start strangecode, where I might do some work in the near future. He is currently employed by sixapart on the MT team in downtown SF, and he was kind enough to give me a quick tour of the office. I was able to snap one pic of the main conference room, note the slim PS2 in the center :) The entire floor was really nice. They had an amazing office for the ~100 employees there; I had no idea SA was such a big company with so much going on! I might try to get an internship with them this summer. On an unrelated note, I came across an article on engadget, where a woman died from water intoxication trying to - get this - trying to win a Wii. And we thought CSU, Chico was the only place stupid enough to do this. A radio station put on a contest to see who could drink the most water without peeing, and apparently she lost - big time. And

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BLOGGERID: 8590163708495408334 -------- TITLE: delta scares me AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/10/2007 08:47:00 PM ----- BODY: And not just because of the ghetto planes! I flew delta today, from Fayetteville, Arkansas to San Jose, CA by way of Atlanta, GA, Delta's nationwide hub. After boarding the pane in Atlanta in preparation for the 5+ hour journey to San Jose, the stewardess made an announcement about a set of lost keys found by a baggage handler. She said the handler found them and assumed that they had fallen out of a bag that was on our flight. It was the usual "describe to claim" situation, but I didn't give it a second thought. When she passed by just before takeoff, I remembered sticking my keys in my checked baggage's outermost pocket just before sending it to whatever abyss lays beyond the flaps of the conveyor belt. I have a swiss-tech multi tool on my key ring, which includes a blade about an inch and a half long; I didn't want to chance getting stopped at security with it and never seeing it again, so I threw it in at the last minute without a thought. I flagged the stewardess down, and asked casually if the homeless keys had a caribeaner attached to them. She mustn't have known what that was, because she asked back "you mean a D-clip?" I made the connection and sat up a little bit. "Yeah! It's black, with a LED flashlight and a couple keys..." She moved forward to the head of the plane, and another stewardess came back and asked for the description of the keys again. I told her, and viola, out came my keys! While this is an amazing story for the mere fact that everyone involved was quite honest and kind, but what worries me is that the stewardess handed me - albeit unknowingly - a serrated edge knife aboard a cross-country flight just before takeoff. In fact, as I write this, I'm 38,000 feet above the ground holding my precious multi-tool at the back of the plane. Quite unnerving to say the least. All caution aside, I am returning from a 5-day visit with Michael of bodyvisual fame. We had a blast hanging out and talking geek for a few days, as well as gaping in horror at Apocalypto, marveling at the wonders of Wal*Mart and spelunking, among other things. I am very sad to have to return after such a short visit, but with any luck, he'll be moving out west soon anyway :) *** Post-flight *** I'm in San Jose now, and going to MacWorld tomorrow, after I get some sleep tonight. I'm sure I'll have my $0.02 about the iPhone and ?tv and all that tomorrow.

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BLOGGERID: 441371870496725010 -------- TITLE: Arkansas AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/05/2007 06:47:00 PM ----- BODY: Yup. Arkansas. Many people have called me crazy, few have doubted it, but here I find myself in the nice town of Fayetteville, Arkansas for the next 5 days. I'm visiting a friend of mine I met a few years back online who I've always wanted to meet in person. So I had some time off in January, and enough cash for a plane ticket, so I asked myself "why not?" I didn't think of any reason not to, so I did. And here I am. So incredibly random, but so incredibly cool at the same time. I flew in this morning, through Salt Lake City, Utah of all places. It was a gorgeous 19 degrees Fahrenheit outside while we were waiting to board our plane. Anyway, just an update to let everyone know I'm alive and well in AR. Peace.

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BLOGGERID: 4622264711484153554 -------- TITLE: New Year, First post! (Score:-1, Troll) AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/01/2007 05:05:00 PM ----- BODY: Sorry for the slashdot joke, but I figured it was appropriate. At the nerdery, we rung in the new year with style! We had a classy party with all the usuals who hadn't skipped town for the holidays; I'm sure the pictures will surface on the internet shortly :) It's still a small world I guess, because Jay (see previous post) was in town and stopped by with a few people including Jeff Shoffner and Eric Williams. What a weird mix of seeing old friends it has been lately! Happy New Year Everybody! ***EDIT*** from Router Dave's Gallery from Lauren Chang's Album

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BLOGGERID: 9196257803645904192 -------- TITLE: old friends AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/28/2006 11:32:00 AM ----- BODY: I was facebooked a while ago (akin to being googled, facebooked is now a verb I've heard in conversation) by an old friend of mine from years ago, Ethan Pickering. He claimed to be going to Redding over winter break, and wanted to know if I would like to hang out and get some coffee and catch up and whatnot. This shows how old of a friend he is, as neither I, or my parents, have lived in Redding for nearly 3 years now. I replied and told him I wasn't going to be in Redding again, (ever) (god help me) but told him to look me up in Chico as it's not too far. I never heard back. So I forget about it, go home to San Jose to hang out with the family for Christmas. Lo and behold, my mother tells me that Victoria Pickering had called her and wanted to know if we could get together the day after Christmas! What a trip! So they both came over (mother and son) and we had breakfast, caught up on where we we're all at. He's at the University of Michigan now, and is doing well. We were trying to think back... he moved away to Indiana when we were in the 5th grade, so it had been at least a decade since we had last seen each other in person. It's hard to imagine that! That's half my lifetime! So we reminisced about old friends for a couple hour or so before they had to be on their way. I asked Ethan, and he said they were driving up to Redding and he was goin to see some old friends, including Zach, Jay (who we both know separately), and Jeff, who we were in cub scouts together with. Okay, time jump 24 hours later. I'm in San Francisco with my mom, and we're shopping at H&M on Powell. I'm trying on a coat when I turn around and meet eyes with someone familiar... We both kind of look at each other for a second before I comprehend that it's Jay Mantri! We smile, greet, and marvel at how it's such a small world before going our separate ways; I wound up getting the coat :) Quick recap: I see an old friend from a decade ago from Indiana who's out to visit. We talk about a guy who we both know from different circumstances. I go to SF, and see that same guy - who I havn't seen since high school - 200+ miles from his home. What a weird world we live in :)

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BLOGGERID: 7441477740116047532 -------- TITLE: merry christmas AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/26/2006 04:51:00 PM ----- BODY: A day late, and a dollar short my mum used to say. Well, Merry Christmas anyway! I made it down to San Jose for Christmas again this year in time to celebrate with my extended family on the 23rd (as they all had "other arrangements" for Christmas Day). On Christmas Day, my immediate family and I spent the day opening presents, then drove up to San Francisco for a wonderful dinner at a cozy Italian place downtown. I won't give a list of presents, but Santa pulled through this year with a gorillapod that is going to make a perfect addition to my camera bag. Since we went to the city for Christmas dinner, we are having our "real" dinner tonight, complete with a ham and the whole bit. It looks something like this: I can't wait!

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BLOGGERID: 8356974768780045325 -------- TITLE: pandora and Tim Westergren AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/14/2006 10:31:00 PM ----- BODY: Tim Westergren of Pandora fame visited Chico this evening for a semi-round table discussion of the product, it's future, and music in general. As it turns out, Tim is a very nice, down-to-earth guy with a real passion for music and the Music Genome Project he started in 1999. It was great to sit down with the 30 or so other people who showed up and openly discuss what we liked and disliked about Pandora and converse with Tim. Here's a pic of 3/5 of teh nerdery with Tim: That's me next to Tim in the beanie. We got some sweet swag (hats, shirts, buttons...) for free as well. I quickly cut up the shirt to make a new screen protector for my MacBook Pro. It looks something like this: Anyway, more thoughts on this later...

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BLOGGERID: 6733900211736876676 -------- TITLE: christmas is coming... AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/11/2006 11:05:00 AM ----- BODY: ... and if you have a spare $16 grand, get me one of these: SR20 UAV Electric Helicopter System

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BLOGGERID: 6609849701257812472 -------- TITLE: rusty mills AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/04/2006 08:28:00 PM ----- BODY: Earlier this year, Chuck Harvey gave a lecture on campus about life and work as an animator at Disney and Warner Studios. Well, the series continued this afternoon with Rusty Mills giving a great talk about his work directing over 100 episodes of Animaniacs and 65 episodes of Pinky and the Brain. He also talked about the animation process from inception to final product, as well as the move from hand-drawn cell animations to a fully digital workflow in respect to 2D animation. I'm sure glad I'm on the computer side of the issue on this one :) But much to my disappointment, no steak dinner followed :(

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BLOGGERID: 5032305072244785954 -------- TITLE: dave's disk AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/03/2006 08:08:00 PM ----- BODY: So I went a little bit overboard with the vinyl cutter at work and my new 250Gb LaCie external hard drive today: Oh well. Johnny, if you read this, I used my own vinyl. ;)

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BLOGGERID: 8965445400287224819 -------- TITLE: school spirit AUTHOR: david DATE: 11/30/2006 01:01:00 PM ----- BODY: It was almost exactly one year ago when I went off on a rant about chico and what it means to be a Chico State student. Everything I wrote then still holds true. I was reminded of it just now when I was walking on campus in front of the Library. I was stopped by a guy holding a clipboard, and he asked if I had been to a CSU, Chico sporting event this semester (which is just a couple weeks from ending). Without missing a beat or step, I said "nope" and gave him a smile. Before I was out of earshot, I turned around and half-jokingly said "I went here for a year and a half before I knew we were the 'wildcats'". He laughed and made a scribble on his pad. I continued on to my destination (a coffee shop on campus with free wifi), and not two minutes later, my new clipboard-bearing friend shows up and says "not to be a stalker or anything, but I really liked that quote, can I get your name?" I told him my first name and what year I am, noting that it would be embarrassing to have a quote like that attributed to my name (our campus ID cards are called "Wildcat Cards" after all) I don't know if he'll use it or not, but regardless, I can't wait to read whatever he writes :)

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BLOGGERID: 820357122941750563 -------- TITLE: at the beach AUTHOR: david DATE: 11/25/2006 02:34:00 PM ----- BODY: I drove up Highway 9 with my mom today, then up Highway 1 to the Moss Beach Distillery that's just south of San Fransisco. It was grand.

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