Wax Eloquently » travel http://waxeloquently.com This is my life -- or at least part of it. Enjoy! Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:27:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 © waxeloquently@tommusic.net () waxeloquently@tommusic.net() 1440 This is my life -- or at least part of it. Enjoy! waxeloquently@tommusic.net No no http://waxeloquently.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Wax Eloquently http://waxeloquently.com 144 144 Fun In Flight http://waxeloquently.com/2008/07/26/fun-in-flight/ http://waxeloquently.com/2008/07/26/fun-in-flight/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:00:19 +0000 Tom http://waxeloquently.com/?p=64 One part of flight I enjoy is crossword puzzles. I don’t usually take the time to seek them during my day-to-day wanderings, but the in-flight magazine brings them right to you.

Another thing in-flight magazines present is a good visual jam session. They provide some graphics and words, and it’s up to you to make them into something more interesting. This is their intention. It would be rude not to participate.

I recently found these fine examples while cleaning:

 

This one really needs to be opened full-size to get the entire effect:

Get flying, and get to work. Then share your creativity with the world, and with me!

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On the plane trip down I saw three laptops open (including my own), and all three were Macs. Times: are they a-changin’?

I spent the weekend in beautiful Palo Alto, California attending Startup School hosted by Y-Combinator and Stanford BASES. It was great! We (all 600+ of us) filled up Stanford’s Kresge Auditorium and listened to a day full of speakers talking about tech startups from a variety of perspectives.

Meeting up with the other attendees outside of the conference was the best part of the trip. I talked with a bunch of people from all over the country (and even from up in Canada), and came away feeling energized to work on my own projects again.

There was a neat hacker party on Saturday night called Super Happy Dev House. I had never been to something like that before, and had a good time alternating between meeting more tech people and working my projects. A++ NERD PARTY. WOULD ATTEND AGAIN.

I didn’t get to sleep before 2:30 though, and had to get up at 7:30 this morning. Woe is me! I’m getting so old.

]]> http://waxeloquently.com/2007/03/25/what-is-the-world-coming-to/feed/ 1 Wanderin’ for Wi-Fi http://waxeloquently.com/2006/12/15/wanderin-for-wi-fi/ http://waxeloquently.com/2006/12/15/wanderin-for-wi-fi/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:50:54 +0000 Tom http://waxeloquently.com/2006/12/15/wanderin-for-wi-fi/ The power is still out. It’s so exciting!

It went out just before 9:55 last night.

NOTE TO SELF: The recording of 30 Rock will be cut off too early.

I awoke more than once to screams of tree branches being ripped from their homes, and cast upon the roof of my apartment. Their suffering cries were deafening! We need to end tree branch suffrage immediately.

War-torn Downtown Edmonds is such an odd sight; driving down Main I noticed that the south side of the street was fully powered, and the north side was not.

Now I am sitting in one of two open coffee shops (the other is a Starbucks, and was packed). The power outlet doesn’t work and there’s no wi-fi, but I got some breakfast and that’s good enough for now. In a little bit I will go and try the Library.

Scratch that. Washington State Ferries Wi-Fi!

How you doin’?

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[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

Got questions? Feel free to ask.

(For those of your for whom this method doesn’t work, try this link)

]]> http://waxeloquently.com/2006/08/25/where-has-tom-been/feed/ 3 Finally, Eight Months Later http://waxeloquently.com/2006/05/22/finally-eight-months-later/ http://waxeloquently.com/2006/05/22/finally-eight-months-later/#comments Tue, 23 May 2006 03:32:24 +0000 Tom http://waxeloquently.com/2006/05/22/finally-eight-months-later/ When Jana and I were in Ireland during September of 2005 we kept a journal of the stuff we did during the trip. The intention was that we would show this to friends and family, and ultimately put it all online.

I am now proud to present scans of the entire journal of our trip.

Clicking the picture below will take you to the photoset on Flickr. You can then read all 59 pages (some are pictures) at your leisure.

Enjoy!

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