A Blog by Shan Vosseller
I ride caltrain from my home in SF to work in Mountain View just about every day and unfortunately for me, my train is about 80% male. That being said, every now and then there is someone on Caltrain who has caught my eye. Just tonight, a neighbor of mine who is a new Caltrain rider asked ”are there any hotties on the train?”.
It’s only appropriate that this evening I stumbled across an article in the Chronicle about a Caltrain love poem contest. I may have to enter. If I do, I’ll post it here.
Today, in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicular traffic. Aside from the fact that my grandparents drove from Iowa to San Francisco on their honeymoon, the bridge was:
Ah, savor the days before lawsuits and politicians got in the way of bridge construction. Sometimes I think that this country’s government institutions have lost their ability to get things done efficiently (or at all).
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Until I have breakfast, I’ll leave you with this link to a hilarious cartoon from Trina’s blog.
My Dad does organic farming on our family’s Iowa farm. He was recently featured in an article about organic farming in a local Iowa newspaper.
Most San Franciscans know that there are about five drop everything and have fun outside days per year. Without fail, I’m out of town for most of them. I think I’m going to start sharing my travel plans with weather forecasters.
In related news, it was a cold and dreary in Philadelphia and the red-eye flight out, all day meeting and late flight back were productive.
Okay, so in case you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m a geek (but a cool one). I guess that means that I can attend “geek dinners.” I dined with a bunch of cool people last night amidst spicy Chinese food and conversations of digital media, Windows, content and blogs. It was good to see some old eHome / DMD people again. Thanks to Omar for the invite.
… and yes Omar, I do post to my blog. I even beat you on this one.
The college radio station that I revived has rolled out a new web site – http://www.georgetownradio.com/.
It’s great to see that they are still going strong after almost 10 years. I still remember one administrator saying that she didn’t think it would last more than three years.
Check out their online stream. Very eclectic Georgetown radio as usual. The only thing they’re missing is the Karl Marx classical music morning show we had one day a week.
Here’s why:
For a second year in a row I’m glad the previous year is gone. 2003 was hell for me thanks to school, weekly commuting to Seattle from SF for work, two new teams at Microsoft and my Haas MBA classes. I thought 2004 would turn the page with school completing and me getting some traction with my new team.
Well, 2004 was better than 2003 but not by much. I’ve never worked so hard in my life. Those who know me will probably shudder at hearing that, given how hard I worked during the launch of WGTB at Georgetown. 60 hour weeks were looking like light duty last year. If it wasn’t for the quick trip to Italy with my family, short visits with family and friends and the launch of our MSTV product in Washington state, I probalby would have gone nuts. Thank God I really enjoy the stuff I work on.
Then, there’s the war, tsunami, sluggish economy, etc. to provide a gloomy backdrop for the year.
Here are my aspirations for 2005:
I made some traction on these things in 2004 but it was either a late-breaking development or it was aborted due to varous reasons.
Here’s to 2005 being what 2004 was supposed to be!