Monday night, I took Matt to see the U2 concert at Key Arena–his first time seeing them, my second time after the last Elevation Tour. They rocked the house as expected and opened with confetti and spectacular lights on the stage with “City of Blinding Lights”. It was a powerful and moving performance, at one point showing the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights up on the monitor. Perhaps the most moving piece was when Bono pulled up a young boy named Jason for “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own”. They walked around the elliptical part of the stage, with the boy singing word-by-word along with Bono. Amazing.…

Wow. The day after Gizmodo made a post referencing my brother’s sophomore year project, Engadget puts up a post today about his anemone clock. What great coverage! And how bizarre since this has been around for ages—I mean, I put together that website for him back in 2000 I believe. Interesting how in the Engadget comments, people are upset about the fact that his clock reads “9:11”, thinking that he’s being really disrespectful. In reality, he made this clock in 99 or 2000…so it’s just a weird coincidence that he has that read-out. He’s been getting contacts like crazy, which is cool…except that it’s stressing him out during finals. There…

For the month of May, get 2 cocktails and an appetizer for $15 at the following venues—anyone up for a drink after work? I’m free anytime!

Wow. My friend Jed emailed me today to point out a posting made on gizmodo.com today—-featuring none other than an anemone clock design project Aaron did years ago. That’s pretty cool that he’s getting featured like that!

Today was my unofficial last working day at Amazon (unofficial since I’m taking vacation and technically wrapping things up later in May). But for all intents and purposes, this was my last day doing actual work stuff. I had a meeting, ate lunch with the boss, finished up a transition doc and packed up a big chunk of stuff. I put a bunch of the free CDs I had gotten in my first year working for the Music team out on a door desk, free for others to take. Also found a very large Programming Perl book that I never really used and gave it to the lead developer on…

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme. Watch (.wmv) this kid dance a prefect round at one of the fastest levels while juggling 3 pins at once. Impressive.

This last weekend I took a last minute trip up to Whistler with some friends (care of Kutta’s organizing) during the Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival. Despite this season being the worst in, like, 20 years, the snow this weekend was absolutely amazing. We rode up Saturday morning and found fields of deep deep soft fluffy powder everywhere. Oh man–it was amazing. What a great way to end this season (as opposed to my last trip to Baker, which resulted in wet, soggy, blahness). Otherwise, I’m keeping busy during my last working week at Amazon. Yep–you heard it. I gave notice last week, after working there nearly six years. I…

I woke up this morning to a NPR piece on Lawrence, Kansas of all places! Yay. Unfortunately, I didn’t really wake up until the piece was almost over. It was apparently about Lawrence being the Convergence Capital and being the model for how news media may operate in the future. Interesting.

Interesting. Just found this Seattle Lexicon. I love that under “Things & Zings”, they have “Amazonian Lingo”.

This is just horrible: Wisconsin is debating whether or not to legalize cat hunting. “Residents in 72 counties were asked whether free-roaming cats — including any domestic cat that isn’t under the owner’s direct control or any cat without a collar — should be listed as an unprotected species. If listed as so, the cats could be hunted.“