Thursday, February 21, 2013

Internships

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The conventional wisdom on interns is that you cannot expect to get significant work done by interns: they take time to train, and by the ti...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Long Term Review: Republic Wireless

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In my earlier review of Republic Wireless , I mentioned that I would likely give up the phone and return it and switch to Ting instead. Wel...
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Review: The Amazing Spiderman 2012

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I missed the reboot of the Spiderman movies last year, so caught it on my Nexus 7 instead recently. The Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies were...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Review: Suzanne Vega @ Villa Montalvo

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I'm a bigger fan of concert venues than I am of individual performance artists. My list of great venues in the Bay Area include: The  ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

First Impressions: Ting Galaxy Note 2

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I bought my wife a Galaxy Note 2 from Ting.com for Christmas. The selling point of buying from Ting as opposed to say, AT&T, Verizon, ...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Review: The Best American Science & Nature Writing

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Amazon had The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2012 on sale for $1.99, and when I saw Dan Ariely's name on it, I figured it ...

Startup Engineering Management visits Wharton School of Business in San Francisco

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Did you know that Wharton School of Business had a San Francisco Branch ? I didn't, until James Kilpatrick, affiliated with their entrep...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Publishing Milestone: Piracy!

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Last week, a friend of mine noticed that one of my books was pirated on ScribD . In some ways this is a milestone --- I didn't expect a ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

The "Science" in Computer Science

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When I was an undergraduate , it was very common for many of us to view the "science" in Computer Science as an oxymoron. The proo...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Review: Odd and the Frost Giants

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I somehow missed Odd and the Frost Giants when it came out. I usually check books out from the library, but since this book was $1.99 on th...
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Sunday, January 06, 2013

My New Job

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When I announced my retirement almost 3 years ago, I got three reactions: "I can't imagine staying home to feed the cats and wat...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Long Term Review: Resmed Swift FX Nasal Pillow System

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I just replaced the nasal pillow on my Resmed Swift FX Nasal Pillow system due to wear, so I'm guessing that it's time for a long...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Review: The Perfect Woman

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Happy New Year! And what better way to start the year on this blog with a book review. The Perfect Woman sounds like a self-help book or ...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Review: Ted the Movie

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Two guys are lifelong friends and roommates, but then one of them gets a girlfriend and the other is forced to move out. This sounds like a ...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

First Impressons: Scion xB

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My wife's BMW was starting to need costly repairs (and it certainly wasn't cheap to begin with). The choices were to keep it and ke...
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First Impressions: Republic Wireless Defy XT (Dual Band)

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My 2 year old Nexus One had started getting a flakey power button, so I was going to have to buy a new phone. While I was very happy at my ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Rest in Peace Frank Spychalski

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My last photo with Frank in it, taken in July 2011 (Left to right: Phil Sung, Alan Wissenberg, Dan Vogelheim, Frank Spychalski, Me) ...
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Long Term Review: Continental Gatorskin Tires

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For the longest time, I ran only Avocet Fasgrip tires. They're grippy, and they were cheap, especially after a dealer online blew them ...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Frank Spychalski MIA in New Zealand

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Current Googler Frank Spychalski left for New Zealand in November and was supposed to show up at a friend's place in the last 2 weeks. ...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Head to Head: Sonicare versus Oral-B electric toothbrushes

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I've been a Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush user for years. While I've been largely satisfied with the brushes, they had sever...
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