Archive for May, 2006

Where’s jparks?

Monday, May 29th, 2006

I totally forgot to post where we were going this weekend. I’m such a bad blogger. I guess it really doesn’t matter since most of my readers are coming from Regan’s blog now;-(

For anyone who doesn’t read Regan’s blog, we went to Austin this weekend for Jeff and Aim’s wedding. Everything was great except for the trip home. I keep saying this, but this was the absolutely last time that I fly through Dallas DFW. No really, I mean it this time. Our plane was 30 minutes late in arriving to the gate and took off 40 minutes later that it was suppose to. After landing and being delayed for 10+ minutes because of lighting strikes, 1 lighting strike within 5 miles of the airport == 10 minutes of waiting in the queue to de-board, we were left 10 minutes to make it to our next flight. Long story short we made it but our bags didn’t.

There will be pictures on Flickr soon and more of a story on Regan’s blog.

Look, I’m famous!

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I got my mug taken at the Homebrew Phone Club last week. The serious look on my face was from me trying to put the gumstix back together after Joe took it apart and couldn’t figure out how to put it back together.

Dan has already taken note of this on flickr.

From left, Joe Onorato of San Francisco, Jason Parks of Sunnyvale, and Diane Hackborn of Santa Clara check out a gumstix, a miniature computer used in wireless mobile technology, during the the first meeting of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club at the Google campus in Mountain View.
(Joanne Ho-Young Lee / Mercury News)

Bookshelves

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Regan and I have rebuilt our library so fast that you wouldn’t be able to tell that we lost almost every book that we owned eight months ago. It was more important to us to acquire books rather than a place to put them. This really didn’t matter in Austin since we had a two bedroom apartment with tons of closet space. When the books started to overrun the common space, we just stashed them away in a closet. Now that we live in the-kingdom-of-unreasonable-rent we had to down grade to a one bedroom apartment with less closet space. This meant that we actually had to stop buying books and break down and buy bookshelves. Today, after 245 days of being bookshelf free, we are now owners of a IKEA bookshelf.