I’ve been crazy busy at work, leaving at later hours–Monday at 8pm, last night at 10pm. I have sooo much to do and only so many hours to do it in a given, sane day. I leave for a few days of snowboarding at Big Sky later today–wahoo! But man, what a price to pay to take a few days off, scrunching all the work I would have done in a week into the few days I am at work. I’ve already delayed turning in my annual self-review, a document that I usually spend days writing as it’s my one opportunity to document basically everything I did at the company…

Dog born with only 2 legs (in the back) learns to walk—watch the Amazing 2-Legged Dog video. Trippy.

Weird—a table top 3-D version of Tetris. Check out the TV Commercial. It’s just not the same. Gorgeous pictures from a couple’s recent One Year, One World travel journey—really inspriring. Now that I’ve been using the Motorola 6412, Comcast’s DVR, for a few months, I thought I’d comment on some of the pros and cons of it compared to TIVO (which seems to be teetering on the edge of death with recent events like 2 executives stepping down or leaving and DirectTV announcing that they’re not going to renew their contract which ends in 2007). TIVO needs to do something to stay alive–as much as I loved it, it wasn’t…

The good news is that my uveitis did not resurface. The bad news is that I have pink eye instead. First time in my life too. I immediately started on some antibiotic eye drops which have worked like a charm throughout the weekend. My eye is way less red than it was on Friday. Weekend was busy and fun-filled. Friday, went to a crepe party at Phoebe & Ray’s–what a great idea! Some spinach, mushrooms, banana and nutella and you got yerself a party. Saturday, I went over to the I-District for the Chinese New Year festival in the Union Hall to work at a booth for the Youth Tutoring…

Crap. I think my uveitis may’ve resurfaced. Last night, I noticed my left eye to be a bit redder than normal..but I just thought I was tired. This morning, I woke up with a bunch of “sleepy eye” or “ahn tze” (as my mother would call it in Chinese) in it with my eye even more red and feeling a bit sensitive. Since I’ve had uveitis in left eye twice now in the last four years, I’ve become familiar with the early signs of it. I also know that it’s not cured and I’ll just have uveitis in my left eye for the rest of my life. Crap crap crap.…

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Today marks the year 4702 in the Lunar New Year calendar and begins the Year of the Rooster. I made the obligatory phone calls to Hong Kong last night and have plans for a small dinner with some friends tonight in the International District. Oooo–look at the horoscope for Snakes this year: The Intuitive Snake – The “Learned One” In 2005, aesthetic Snakes profit by life and complete some of their most personal projects. You will lean toward the idealistic side of your nature, and some may well daydream and procrastinate to the point of losing track of reality for a while. Strive for a…

Photos taken last night from Amazon Post-Holiday Party posted now. It was at The Premiere with the Dudley Manlove Quartet up on stage. Not a bad party compared to the last one I went to (which was just horrible), although there have been more fun parties in the past. Everyone had their splash of red on and a good number were dancing (although it felt wedding-like or high-school-dance-like at times).

Bummer. I’ve had my eyes on the Samsung i550 pda phone for the last year, waiting to see when it would be released. There were rumors that it would come out in late Q4 2004 but nothing seemed to ever come of it. Then I just read that Sprint has cancelled this phone so they can focus their efforts on the Treo 650 and the Windows Mobile version version of the Samsung phone (the i600). Darn! I can’t believe that. Personally, I much much prefer the design of the i550 over the Treo 650 primarily because of the clamshell design. Most pda phones have fallen into two design camps: 1)…

Things must be stressful at work if i’m supposedly mumbling something about “deliverables” in my sleep. Ack. I’m tired and can’t think very straight. All Hands is tomorrow—A9 folks from San Jose are flying up to give a preso on Yellow Pages, including Betina and John: can’t wait to see them! I really like this feature and hope it is successful. The block view is pretty darn cool—I spent a bit of time last week picking out the Best Image for a number of Capital Hill area businesses. Here’s the flower shop on the ground floor of my building. If you “walk to the right”, you can see the entrance…

The Coachella Festival lineup was announced today. Nice. Never been. Wanna go this year.