I finally decided to go in on a Flickr Pro account, then after looking into the stats I noticed that one of my photos from Maker Faire 2008 was actually used with an attribute to me.
I thought they normally emailed you to let you know, oh well. Yay anyways.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/how-mythbusters.html
Earlier this week I biked to work again.
This time I caught the baby bullet and made it to work pretty fast. Only other problem was that I arrived with only a few minutes to spare. In the process of buying my pass I bought a zone 3 to zone 1 pass. When I saw zone 1 I thought 1 zone perfect. Only after getting in did I notice my mistake oops.
Will try to go again and more often as I actually enjoy the ride.
Tiff and I flew down for the fourth cause I had my friend’s wedding to go to.
Flew down in the moring and barely made it on time. Seriously minutes after we walked in the ceremony began.
It was a nice smallish wedding at Cannons in Data Point. The day was not too hot and both bride and groom were pretty accessible the whole time. Also, open bar…or rather prepaid bar, but we never hit the limit. Doing our duty we had Mac 18, Blue Label, and Jameson.
The wedding finished up after the fireworks. We had to take off a little early due to meeting up with the fam. The drive home was pretty rough even tho we left kinda early. 30 mins to the freeway at least.
I took a bunch of photos that I still need to process…oh well.
Congrats to Julie and Danny Yao!
In a good way.
Friday:
Iron Man hosted by Palantir. Tony Stark is the Engineer’s engineer. Favorite quote, “TONY STARK BUILT IT IN A CAVE… WITH SCRAPS!”
To those who have yet to see it…stay till the end of the credits.
Saturday:
Yoga 8-9:30
BBall 10-11:30
10.1 Mile Hike @ Purisima Creek 1-4
Huey’s Bday @ Medjool FAILED
Sunday:
Maker Faire 2008
Note: I ran into 5 of my coworkers at the faire and I heard more went on Saturday. Go team Geek!
Now I have to process the photos from the weekend into my Flickr
So after much asking of when’s your next post, here it is.
I’ve been pretty busy the past few months working, etc so I haven’t had much time to write recently.
Here’s the basic rundown on what’s been going on.
Work for a good 80% of the time. Release deadlines were coming up soon so I’d been mostly doing work.
Palantir Ski Trip: Tiff and I went up to Tahoe with the company and got in a couple days of snowboarding (I got in 2 days, Tiff bruised herself a bit the first day and took the 2nd day off). It was a pretty awesome time, props to the ops team for stocking the 5 cabins so well.
Palantir Wine Trip: Tiff and I again went up for a day of wine tasting with the company. Again with the drinking.
Palantir Warriors Game: My first bball game. Fun, but I thought it would have been noisier. Maybe it’s because the Warriors got knocked out of the playoffs. I did get some free fried chicken things since they scored over 100.
Yoga: Tiff and I are trying out the yoga place down the street from my work. They currently have an introductory thing where it’s $40 for 30 days of unlimited yoga. Bikram is very warm and causes much sweating. Bringing a frozen drink is recommended!
Photography: I gave in and got a dslr. The small and least expensive Nikon D40 is now my tool of learning. It’s now also armed with the moderately expensive Nikkor 18-200 VR lens. Now all I need is a flash and I’ll probably be set for a while.
Entertainment: Jdramas have been the new TV shows for us. They’re nice in that they end in 10-14 episodes. Just finished Lunch no Joou and possibly moving on to Hotaru no Hikari next. If you have suggestions let me know.
Misc: It’s wedding season or something. This summer we will be attending at least 2 weddings with the possibility of that number going up to 5 by the end of this year.
This past weekend Palantir was gracious enough to get everyone tickets to the Russell Peters show at The Improv in San Jose.
If you don’t know who he is, stop reading now and watch this.
Generally the comedians get better as the night goes on and in this case the opening comedians did a pretty good job warming us up with the exception of one of them. I’m not sure if it just wasn’t his night or what. His timing or pacing just wasn’t very on and he kept pushing his HBO comedy show that was going to be on after the Superbowl. He had his moments, but I think everyone was ready to move on to the main event.
I suggest you all go watch Russell live if you ever get a chance. It was obvious the guy was comfortable up there and he was really great at involving the audience and working those elements into his act. He still does a lot of the jokes centering around racial stereotypes, but this time he’s working in other things involving disabilities as well. I understand that saying it like that is probably making most of you guys go “WTF? That’s wrong man!” Well too bad I don’t really do it justice so just go watch it sometime. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
Mission: 2008 Prius Package 2 Black Magnetic Grey
Time looked: 6 Days
Emails Sent: 27
Phone Calls: 15
Final Price: $24051
We now own a Prius.
I am Green.
P.S.
If you’re looking for a Prius, one I can refer you to a few of the good dealerships/salesmen that I talked to.
I’ll write up my impressions in a later post. For now Tiff is going to try it out.
What better way to end the day working at the office on a weekend other than a super fancy dinner at a 2 star Michelin report restaurant.
I will say this week has been pretty busy what with trying to finish up testing and looking for the best prius deals out there.
Thanks to Tiff’s hard work at Goog we were treated to a what I would consider decadent dinner at Manresa in Los Gatos.
While we were eating there was some kind of food critic or food consultant. He had a massive stack of wine glasses and was giving all these comments to the chef and sommelier.
The place is tough to find hidden in Los Gatos but the service staff was excellent. Ordering at the place is pretty straight forward. Either you choose 4 courses out of the courses of the day (so you can get 4 desserts if you wanted to) or you go with the 7 course chef’s tasting menu. They take into account what you are allergic too and what you won’t eat for the tasting menu so it’s pretty great.
We opted for the chef’s 7 course tasting menu paired with wines. The wait staff pretty much kept out of our way except to give us the next course and explain it or to refill your wine glass.
Below was the mouth watering line up for the day.
Course 1 paired with a Rose:
Petit Fours with Rasberry Gelatin (this was like a fancy gum drop)
Beggar’s Pouch (xiao long bao with crab and pear inside)
Oyster and Sea urchin in Sea Salt Jelly (awesome…just awesome)
Poached Egg with vinaigrette foam maple syrup, and other yummy shit (it was complex, rich, sour, sweet, salty, yum)
Course 2 paired with a Sauvignon Blanc:
Japanese Sashimi slightly poached with geoduck and citrus sauce (the texture and flavor were superb)
Course 3 paired with Riesling:
Mussel and Crab in pine broth (so so damn tasty)
Course 4 Chardonnay (at this point I’m feeling the wine so forgive me for the vague descriptions):
Vegetable Garden (there were flowers here but it was still good and some of it was cooked)
Black Cod with Butter Beans (you can’t ever go wrong with black cod)
Course 5 Pinot Noir from France:
Abalone and Fois Gras (smells soo damn good. Tastes good too)
Course 6 paired with a Cab from Italy:
Squab with cereal (barley) and fresh cranberries (the most tender squab ever)
Course 7 paired with Cab with merlot for me. Some other red for Tiff. (This is awesome, they took into account her preference, but still gave me the beef!)
New York Steak (aged 37 days) for me and Pork Belly for Tiff (It’s awesome they made something for each of us)
Dessert paired with a 10 yr old something
Caramel Ice Cream with Some kind of Bread Pudding
Apple crisp roll with Buttermilk ice cream and cranberry puree.
Vanilla Milk Skin with Milk Chocolate Mousse and fresh mandarin oranges and ice cream
Finish it off with a Cappuccino. Excellent. Thanks Amit.
It’s so cold my dog’s pee was steaming this morning…
It’s times like this I’m proud to be a Golden Bear…and somewhat not proud that I’m so proud of this hahaha