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Quake!
This was by far the strongest quake that I have felt since moving here, and the only one that was mildly frightening. Of course it also woke me up, so maybe that adds to the terror factor.
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Shinteki 3 :
Yesterday I competed with my lovely teammates Darcy, Michael, and Val, as team Get on a Raft with Taft in the Shinteki 3 Puzzle Decathlon. We came in 6th, just 5 points (out of 1200) behind number 5,...
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SF Fringe : The Sewers
On Tuesday R and I saw The Sewers, a production from the New York theater company Banana Bag and Bodice. The play was part of the SF Fringe Festival, and is running through this weekend. I really...
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unlocked networks
KQED‘s Forum program had an hour on Verizon’s new decision to unlock its network and the future of consumer wireless technologies. The first part is more about business and consumers, but the...
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Sita Sings The Blues
On Saturday I saw a sneak preview of Sita Sings The Blues, an animated film by Nina Paley. It was an amazing piece of work. Having seen only some of the musical clips (from waaaaay back in the day), I...
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the bad part of the evening
Dinner was great fun, but the part where it took me almost 3 hours to get home, 2.5 of which were spent stalled in traffic to get through the detour onto the bridge was not so fun. Ironically, I...
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Linkage
The fog in San Francisco (h/t Erin Rhode). A general approach to privacy/utility tradeoffs, with metric spaces! A new preprint/note by Robert Kleinberg and Katrina Ligett. Max breaks it down for you on...
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Linkage
The ITA Workshop is here! Blogging will happen, I hope, but probably not as extensively as before. An important look at 6th Street in San Francisco (h/t Celeste). You got that right, Arnold...
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Linkage : Black Friday edition
This is an amazing video that makes me miss the Bay Area. (via Bobak Nazer) Also via Bobak, we’re number 8 and 10! Since it’s holiday season, I figured it’s time to link to some profanity-laden humor...
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