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I learned to walk & talk in Silicon Valley
I did a brief stint in Sunnyvale, CA from the age of 6 months to 2 years while my dad & mom had a little adventure moving out from Austin, TX where I was born.  They got a raise coming out here, but when they factored in [...]

Posted 16 December 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments °

songwriting

I have opened up some sort of internal creative floodgates lately.  So much so that I am now onto my 15th song in the past 6 months.  I’ve been playing them in open mics around the bay area and having a blast.  I would love to take some time to blog about the songwriting experience [...]

Posted 04 December 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments ° Tagged: ,

fog on fire

fog on fire,
originally uploaded by tracyshaun.

allrighty! This is the 6th photo from the 6th page of my flickr photostream (as of 14:35 PST on 4 December 08).
It was taken on a particularly juicy fog day on my commute down to Palo Alto for my work at Socialtext. I was heading south on 101 [...]

Posted 04 December 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , ,

back in the groove

I had a challenge the other night to create a gift for a buddy of mine.  There were a bunch of different ideas thrown out for us, thoughI happen to have brought my guitar and quickly decided that I wanted to write a song for him.
I whipped out a quick little riff and some chords [...]

Posted 27 August 2008 § Music § Technology ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , ,

Hiking Out From Rexford

Hiking Out From Rexford, originally uploaded by Dru!.

Add this to one of the places I want to go… a co-worker of mine went rafting down in the river that this valley feeds. Gorgeous!

Posted 18 August 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments °

sxswi 2009!

Here it is again!  SXSW/interactive, 2009 — one of the best conferences around… is coming back around next year.  They’ve raised the prices a bit, though it’s still the best bang for the buck when it comes to technology and design conferences.  And this year, I’ve got a proposal for a panel: The Agile Product [...]

Posted 08 August 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments ° Tagged:

Rain?

I really miss the rain.  It seems to only rain for a month or two a year here in the late spring.  We had some awesome storms come through last March, though that was the last I saw of it.  Not that I’m complaining about the awesome weather in the bay area… I just miss [...]

Posted 07 August 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments ° Tagged: ,

music at ace in the hole

Last Friday I went out to play the open mic at Ace in the Hole, a cider brewery in Sebastapol.  I got there a little late and missed getting my name into the bowl.  They had already chosen the order and the first musician was already playing.  I approached the host in between songs and [...]

Posted 18 July 2008 § Music ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , ,

on dunking

One of PLD 90-day goals is to dunk a basketball.  I only recently (in the last 2 weeks) got really serious about training and increasing my vertical leap.  I had done some initial research on how to exercise around that yet I’m probably only doing a portion of it.
Yesterday, I think I may have strained [...]

Posted 11 July 2008 § Basketball § PLD ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , ,

in the pit at the hotel utah

Last night was the biggest open mic yet.  I played one song, Beloved (had been called Feed Me earlier), and did “allright”.  Two of my buddies, Vadim and Paul, were there and said it sounded great.  Even though I flubbed the 3rd verse and didn’t even get to the 4th.  I think I recovered well [...]

Posted 08 July 2008 § Music ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , ,