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berkeley is far from apple

I knew this. No surprises here. Still, I made the drive in one chunk for the first time on Friday afternoon so that I could talk to James about my SCA talk. That is a long-ass drive. I can’t believe people commute from SF or Berkeley to Apple for years. What a crazy place the Bay can be. Luckily, I’ve only really got two weeks of that pain to go through.

I burned up most of Saturday trying to build a cable to splice an iPod into my car stereo, and failed. I’m not giving up though, since commercial adapters go for $90 or so. The goal is that when we do our summer roadtrip (Canada is the plan, all the cool kids are doing it) we can bring Jim and rock out. When I finally figure out how, I’ll make some sort of guide to save others pain. Also, I’m trying to figure out how to use my phone to connect to the internets on the road so we can post up-to-the-minute photos of I-5.

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Susan — 2005-07-11 15:05:42

Canada! How much fun! Who is going?

bryan — 2005-07-12 08:18:47

Why Leslie and I of course :) We’ve been trying to take a road-trip together since magical mystery tour.

falling

In the long tradition of cool flash on overt, I give you neverendingfall. You can help her with your mouse if she gets stuck.

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Susan — 2005-07-05 19:34:02

ouch!

leslie — 2005-07-14 11:04:30

She is as pliant and stoic as a corpse. (well, corpses aren’t that pliant)

amy — 2005-07-20 07:32:48

speaking of corpses, i’m kind of excited about ‘corpse bride…’

pack pack pack

Well, Leslie is off to Thailand and clearly having a grand time. I picked up on packing where Leslie left off. I think we’ve got about 2/3rds of the stuff packed up at this point, mostly stuffed into G5 boxes that I stole from work supplemented with Crate and Barrel boxes from Cameron’s wedding presents. We’ll look like the most well-heeled grad student couple ever when we move in. T-minus two weeks to Berkeley.

The weather here is in full-blown summer mode: perfect every day. Not too hot, nice and cool in the evenings. When, inevitably, we leave California, it’s a virtual guarantee that we’ll bitch about the weather. Because weather is just not supposed to be this good, continuously. Really. You actually start to bitch about how boring the perfect weather is (it reminds me of Blind Melon, sing it with me: “… and I start to complain that there’s no rain…”).

The rest of my spare time has been sunk in to my summer grad student activities. The last week or so I’ve been trying to whip up slides for my SCA presentation, which I’d say are half done now. This is probably the most preparing I’ve ever done for a presentation. It can pay off, though, because talking at conferences seems to be one important way to establish yourself in the incestuous world of academic research. I should be giving some practice talks at Berkeley and Pixar befordhand, which will help.

whitewater rafting down the yuba

I spent Sunday rafting with Doug, Ali, and some friends from work on a river north of Sacramento. Full pictorial documentation on gallery.

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em — 2005-06-28 18:09:51

Wicked cool ride!

johanna — 2005-06-30 17:35:06

You guys look so cute in your wet suits!

bryan — 2005-07-01 11:29:00

it’s all about style baby.