Category Archives: Photo Firsts

Photo Firsts (Ben B., Tyler) and Stats

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Edit: bblum suggested posting photos of each person from each time interval as well. It’s been a while since I’ve done a personal coding project, so I hacked this site together in about an hour. You can view stats for people and such. There aren’t photos for everyone yet (since it is now 4 AM and I should sleep), but the basic site functionality should be working.

Edit edit: Done now. All photos have been uploaded. I accidentally missed a few, but those will be uploaded later this afternoon.

So Photoshop Album tells me that I have now taken 204,885 photos.
It’s also the end of April, so it’s time to post stats for people from the past 4 months.

My first photo of Ben:

September 5, 2007 at the Activities Fair. (It’s the back of his head though.)

My first photo of Tyler:

August 29, 2005 next to Henderson.

I was curious how many different people I know (or at least knew enough to identify visually and assign a tag for), so I went through my tag bin.

    By rough category:

  • 71 people in Arizona (basically middle school plus a few random people from there)
  • 110 people in the Bay Area (including CMU people who have moved here)
  • 436 people at CMU
  • 151 people at PPA
  • 20 people from PSLC (summer internship my sophomore year of college)
  • 95 people at Salesforce (not including Sharon, Charles, Andrew, Matt, and Justin)
  • 23 people at Viz (summer internship my junior year of college)
  • 59 people in other random categories (Pittsburgh, Ohio, Colorado, Thailand)

    • for a total of roughly 965 people.

Photo Firsts (Janel), Photos, and (Ph/F)ood

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I tried a food experiment today that turned out really tasty. It’s basically palo, except with chicken instead of pork and with nothing else (no egg or tofu).

Coat 1 chicken breast in five-spice powder (palo mix). Quickly fry on both sides in a little bit of oil. Add water, soy sauce, and a little sugar to the pan and boil for about 20 minutes, flipping the chicken sporatically. Serve over rice.

I also discovered that you can make rice by sticking 1/2 cup rice and 1 cup water in the microwave for 10 minutes. Much easier than pulling out the rice cooker when it’s just rice for one. It’s not as fluffy, but it’s much simpler.

Yesterday, Sharon and I made fresh spring rolls. We also played a lot of Rock Band with Matt.

Life has also been full of photos lately.









Also, here’s my first photo of Janel:

August 31, 2001 in the portables after class (I believe Spanish class?).

Photo Firsts (Vicki, Amanda) and Parade!

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Today was the Chinese New Year parade (yes, a week late). I went and wandered Chinatown with Ally, Blake, Dan, and Robert and ate cheap food and watched a stream of dressed-up people with flags and Dragons. It was fun. It’s actually really a good idea to have two cameras: a nice DSLR for events and a portable P&S for wandering. I would not have liked carrying around my D90 all day, especially with me running from Brannan and Embarcadero to Post and Market in under 10 minutes (since the Muni was going to be 5 minutes and I figured I could beat it and save $2 in the process, and also get some exercise… and yes, I did manage to beat it by about a minute).









Em’s brother also came to visit her. I guess this is the first posted photo from my D90 (since life hasn’t had one posted from it yet either).

Anyway, here’s my first photo of Vicki:

August 12, 2002 in the PPA office after school Sophomore year.

First photo of Amanda:

August 31, 2001 in the portables during lunch Freshman year.