Official Transitioner

As a friend pointed out – Each week I spend at work is 1% of the time I’ll be there (2 years = 104 weeks… + there’s some vacation involved). So I’m now 2% of the way through. I’m ramping up on my project. I like my team. I’m excited for the potential it has. [...]

I kind of want to keep this packing list thing going, so: Jeans White dress Two tank tops Pajamas Two sweaters Toiletries Work Laptop Purse contents Two books Misc Electronics Things I did: Ate falafel Went to the East Bay Went to the South Bay Hung out in parks… lots and lots of parks. Ate [...]

Offensively inoffensive- to be so bland that one is offensive, simply for being impossible to dislike. Inoffensively Offensive- so offensive that one is ridiculous, and thus not offensive at all. – from a conversation with Roland, Nik, and Jaime earlier.

Why don’t we have break up services? Not something that calls your significant other and breaks up with them for you, but something that provides an unbiased opinion. We all have friends that are in relationships that just need to end for everyone’s good, but they don’t believe it. They’d be more likely to listen [...]

Things I have done in Seattle… Walked down the Ave Gone to University Village Bought books! Gone canoeing on lake washington (and DIDN’T fall in the water) Saw an awesome apartment with a rooftop deck Ate sushi Found a summer sublet Read a book Made major project our design consultancy’s current project Went grocery shopping [...]

I’ve had my blog for almost two years now- if there’s something LOA taught me it’s how to have a regular blog. Browsing through old things (thanks, jet lag!) I came across this list of what I’d read back in 2008… updating, now: http://blog.ellenchisa.com/?p=194 I’ve read 15 more of them since then (and probably around [...]

And I’ve been unfortunately way too busy to write about it since then. It was a collection of nearly twenty individual talks and performances, and it was one of the most impressively programmed events that I’ve ever been to. My two favorite talks… Matt Shlian- Paper Engineer - “Implications of Paper Folding”: This guy is an art [...]

An eventful weekend… Alyshia and I arbitrarily decided to drive somewhere “far away” We drove through the Adirondacks We visited Matt Krass (6 hours driving, 6 hours sleeping, 3 hours hanging out, 6 hours driving, increasing by 2400x the amount of time we’d spent together in person) Learned to drive stick shift (way better than [...]

The final stop on the many-legged vacation was SF. I finally got up to the top of twin peaks, and out to the Sutro baths (thanks Ben!)

Vegas turned out to have one good point: awesome fountains!