Browsing the blog archives for June, 2005

First set of pictures uploaded

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I still havn’t ripped down all the images from my camera, but there is a bunch that I did in San Jose before I left, I’ve set up a photo gallery and put them up here. I especially liked this picture of Jeff “chowing down” on some San Francisco bay seafood: I didn’t number the photos so [...]

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Coteau Twins Rock

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While I was in the US, I bought the Cocteau Twins album: Blue Bell Knoll. Very much like the other album I have of theirs, it is full of ringing guitar sounds and hauntingly beautiful voice. A good listen. In other news, GOOG is up to 286c today, and growing. Amazing. I keep kicking myself that [...]

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Back home

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Didn’t get much sleep the day before I left. Drove to the airport. Bought a suitcase and moves some crap into it to make my other bags lighter. Flight back was 10 1/2 hours long. I was sitting next to an obachan with pointy elbows. She was quite sweet but i wish she would just sit [...]

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On the wrong side

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So, I picked up some Chevy somethingorother at the airport. Its a two door, six cylinder car that is really quite a shitheap, but it works. The plan will be to drive it up to San Francisco tomorrow morning sometime. Remembering how to drive on the right hand side of the road is … hard. I [...]

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Where have I been

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create your own visited country map or check our Venice travel guide I thought this was cute. Right now, I am in San Jose, CA. Its a nice place; I could live here quite comfortably I think. I’m in San Jose to be at a training course for Foundry Networks. I’m being taught by a guy that I’ll [...]

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