Watched Obama’s acceptance speech in a pizza joint with a bunch of Berkeley types. It seemed to go over well.
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
A weekend in the bay area
On Saturday visited SF with three of the other new students. It’s remarkably simple to get there on the subway. Saw the tail end of one of the famous farmers markets, and walked along the city near the north coast. Briefly visited pier 39 and saw more than a hundred sea lions there. A little [...]
Travel Photoset!
I had a bit of downtime today (waiting for a package that still hasn’t arrived) so I finally uploaded a set of photos from my drive along I-80. As always, here are a couple of highlights: Construction of a wind farm in Western Iowa. I hadn’t realized just how big the blades were for these. [...]
Berkeley Hike
Just wanted to quickly point out the new set of pictures I recently uploaded to Flickr. These still aren’t the cross country drive set, I still need to triage those, but pictures from a hike my girlfriend and I took last weekend before she left. You can see the whole set here, but I’m going [...]
Stolen books
Guess what the most frequently stolen books are from UC Berkeley libraries? Vegetarian cookbooks. Just thought you’d like to know. I got reacquainted with a bunch of the other first years that I met during interview weekend last night. Today is the first day of orientation. Things like library training (where I heard the fact [...]
Apartment Update
Knowing how much exciting the idea of pictures from the inside of my apartment must be. Here’s a shot of one wall (For bonus points, click through to flickr to see the notes explaining the purpose of each item):
Internet In Berkeley
Finally got my internet up and running. It was rather embarrassing having to call tech support because I couldn’t figure out the instructions for self-activation, but I’ve got that out of the way now, and will be writing up the details of my trip as I find time. For now: The apartment is great, I’m [...]
Slippery slope
Here’s my friend’s wedding annoucement. Just doing my part to embarrass the new couple. Though I suppose it’s been more than three months now. Happy late three month anniversary buddy! With regards to the title, next thing you know I’ll be posting pictures of my other friend’s baby. Or even video (I have video). But [...]
Insight from Jiffy-with apologies for bringing up politics
This story all begins because I went in to get my oil changed before driving across the country. It turns out my car went past 90,000 miles since I last had it serviced, and lots of things recommended to be serviced every 15,000 or 30,000 miles also needed to be taken care of (fuel filter, [...]