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Archive for December 2006

old friends

I was facebooked a while ago (akin to being googled, facebooked is now a verb I’ve heard in conversation) by an old friend of mine from years ago, Ethan Pickering. He claimed to be going to Redding over winter break, and wanted to know if I would like to hang out and get some coffee [...]

merry christmas

A day late, and a dollar short my mum used to say. Well, Merry Christmas anyway! I made it down to San Jose for Christmas again this year in time to celebrate with my extended family on the 23rd (as they all had “other arrangements” for Christmas Day). On Christmas Day, my immediate family and [...]

pandora and Tim Westergren

Tim Westergren of Pandora fame visited Chico this evening for a semi-round table discussion of the product, it’s future, and music in general. As it turns out, Tim is a very nice, down-to-earth guy with a real passion for music and the Music Genome Project he started in 1999. It was great to sit down [...]

christmas is coming…

… and if you have a spare $16 grand, get me one of these: SR20 UAV Electric Helicopter System

rusty mills

Earlier this year, Chuck Harvey gave a lecture on campus about life and work as an animator at Disney and Warner Studios. Well, the series continued this afternoon with Rusty Mills giving a great talk about his work directing over 100 episodes of Animaniacs and 65 episodes of Pinky and the Brain. He also talked [...]