Check out Kenny the Liu’s day today. He’s doing hard things. (By the way, he posted some photos of his time in SF.)

What did I do today? I ate lunch. I did some research for something I’m writing. I ate dinner with Tony, Joe, and Rachel. I had dessert and coffee. I froze while walking around because I’m a Californian wuss. I laughed at (with) a young woman who stepped backwards and fell onto her tush over one of those green-wire-fenced tree area things.

And now, I’m going to bed.

Those of you who know me know that I’m always harping about the media-caused misconceptions of sharks. National Geographic has a down-to-earth article on their site about great whites, which is worth a read if you’re absolutely terrified that you’ll be attacked by one while in the water.

However, I’m not sure if knowing most attacks are simply investigatory probes will make things less scary. :)

Aaron posted this really cool link that shows seamless zooming into various objects.

I need to sleep, but I’m not tired yet. My old routine of staying up until 4AM PST means that I have to adjust my clock by 12 hours by Monday. :)

Thank you, Cindy, for hosting me upon my return from San Diego. Thank you, Adam and Carolyn, for exposing me for the first time to American Idol and Scrubs. Thank you, Syndromes, Kristin, Sven, Adam, Diana, Teri, Norm, Eryn, Gabe, Wendy, Shiloh, Rhette, and Elliot for seeing me before I leave. I’ll be back soon, anyway. :)

And now it becomes apparent why Syndromes goes to the Green Tea boba place…

At Sony NetOps, SOCOM II monitoring center: Sven , Kristin, Syndromes, and Syndromes’ friend. I’m sorry! Sorry! forgot name.

Adam, Diana, Teri, Norm (lookin’ short!), and Eryn

Berkeley-ites Gabe, Wendy, Shiloh, and Rhett, in front of Marni Thai

One more thing: if you’re planning on coming to Vienna Teng’s Feb 29th CD release show in San Francisco, you should probably get tickets soon. Come see her sing! I’ll be there with my cello, too.

As some of you already know, I’m retiring my old e-mail address. As you can see from the screenshot, it has collected 171 messages in roughly half a day, even though the vast majority have been automatically filtered into “Junk E-mail” (the ones that have been SpamAssassin tagged) and “Bounces” (bounced messages from spammers using my address as the source). I still have a ton of mail making it past SpamAssassin.

And because I can no longer use procmail scripts to automatically trash SpamAssassin tagged messages, webmail is completely unusable: I log in and have to wade through 300 “turn your spud into a potato” messages to find my 3 personal messages.

Update My old address is OFFICIALLY shut down. I just spent the last hour going through all my important web accounts, changing e-mail addresses. :)

I think I’ve forgotten how to pack light. When I travel for photography, my clothing fits on my body and into two tiny foot-long tubes. Now that I’m traveling again to an urban environment, I’m a little out of my element. A year and a half ago, I went to New York for 3 1/2 months and managed to pack all sorts of stuff into one (very large) suitcase. This time around, I have already stuffed two cases full of clothing and accessories: bulky winter crap, shoes, camera bags (2, stuffed with clothing and placed in suitcase), duffel bag (stuffed and placed in suitcase), comforter, pillow, towel, and who knows what else. I’m even bringing my TruWest Parka, which I have so far only worn on dive boats. Warmth over fashion… right? :)

I went to Bodyworks with my mom today at L.A. Fitness. The room was full of 39 females and 1 male. My favorite lines:

1) “your form looks great, ladies!”
2) “you should feel it where your bra touches you.”
3) “pretend there’s a quarter in your chi chi, and clench.”

Made me feel really manly.