[NOTE: Oops! Forgot to publish this a few weeks ago!]
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.
I’ve been saving up a ton of photos recently. “Saving” in this case meaning “taking a picture thinking it will make a great story and then not actually telling that story.” Let’s see if we can fix some of that.
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.
For those of you for whom this doesn’t work, try this.
NOTE: I actually wrote and recorded this last night right after the power went out. I got the video uploaded via an insecure “linksys” connection, and and just before I hit the “Publish” button (on this fantastic ecto blogging client) I saw a couple of flashes outside my window. I went to investigate, and suddenly the insecure wireless networks (as well as the two secured networks keeping it company) had disappeared!
Either they were all on UPSes with the same discharge time, or those flashes were more people losing juice!
Tonight Jana and I donated blood again tonight. Last time (or perhaps the time before) she was awarded with a “Galloneer” pin for donating an entire gallon of blood.
Now I have done the same. Booya!
Get out there and donate blood. You never know when someone like me might need a whole bunch of blood due to a gnarly lung tear!
