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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.

More Photos

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I’ve uploaded photos from Sharon, Charles, and Matt’s wet bar party to photos2. (I keep typoing wet bart barty. Stupid BART. :P)

I’ve also gotten life updated up to present day. I kind of fail at continuing the daily photo project, but oh well.

Here’s some photos from Carnival from after I posted the batches to photos2:






Carnival!

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I haven’t updated this for a couple weeks, so I guess I should do so. Gogo gadget short blog post.

There was a Carnival. It was awesome. Tons of photos are posted to photos2, so you should go look.

Sharon made a random comment yesterday that I didn’t take seriously at first. However, having had last night and today to think over it, it’s seeming less and less crazy and more and more like it could should happen.
Details forthcoming, maybe.

Yay life.

Day

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I had a day. It was an interesting day.

Spent the morning walking to Point Lobos and back, in the hopes that it would help me feel better. The walk there was really nice and relatively sunny, and I got there and sat on the cliff overlooking the ocean and was happy.
Of course, as soon as I turned around to come home, it started raining. I didn’t have an umbrella. By the time I got home, I was pretty soaked and cold and miserable. Bleh.
The entire trip was a little over 4.5 hours. It’s something I feel like I should do again… it was a really easy walk along a busy street (Geary) with easy bus access should I need it, and there are hiking trails at the end that I want to explore. I kind of wonder if I should do this every weekend as a way of getting exercise.

Took a nap and felt quite a bit better afterward. Dinner was pan-fried herb tilapia with rice and veggies.

There is currently a spiced pear oat cake in the oven. Hopefully that will turn out tasty. I made spiced pear oat cake. It is tasty.

I also managed to finish the second iteration of the Drama game. The tokens and cards are all cut, the photos are printed, and it’s just waiting on people to try it. Hopefully that’ll be this coming Wednesday.

Yesterday afternoon was also a bit of fail. I went to Costco and bought a 750GB ultraportable hard drive that was on sale at $100 from $130. Brought it home, looked it up on Amazon, saw the 3-star review, and walked back to return it. They apparently refund cash, so then I had to walk to an ATM to deposit the money back in my account. Whee. On the plus side, I also bought a brie, on sale at $4.
Spent the evening sitting in Yerba Buena gardens and watching the water and felt a little better. Also soaked in the hot tub for a bit and felt more better. Went to bed early only to have a nightmare and be woken up at 2 AM. Was able to sleep again at 3 only to have another nightmare. My mind hates me this week.

Also? Parents are awesome. <3 you guys. :)