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last day in california

So today's my last (full) day in California. Summer Associateship ended Friday. Some things are shipped, some things are packed. Rental bike is returned. Still to do: laundry, pack, clean.

And now I sit on a bench on Stanford campus, tapping out a blog post because it's too damned pretty to go inside.

It was a great summer. Interesting work, lovely weather, those were almost givens. But the people really made the experience for me. So, a few highlights, in no particular order:

• Go-karting at 30 mph wearing truly ridiculous firesuits.
• Discovering a lighthouse.
• Pandora wars.
• Kiteboarder beach.
• Writing what was effectively a law review article in three days.
• Biking through wine country.
• Blackberry Mojitos.
• EFF Cyberlaw Trivia Night, and coming in FIRST (among teams without a law professor on them).
• Hunter S. Thompson Memorial Movie Night.
• Scaling a lamp post in downtown Palo Alto.
• The Dark Knight.
• Castle Rock.
• Visiting a Tesla Dealership.
• And too much else to count.

Goodbye, California. You were good to me. I'll see you soon.

mobile photo post

Just a quick test of the new phone's ability to post images and format text (wow that's annoying).

Note the new glitch category: those are posts from the new mobile device.

it's no jetpack, but...

Bill Gibson once wrote something like this: "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."

As I sit here under a tree on Stanford campus, tapping out this blog post on a smooth pane of glass that responds to the lightest tap of my finger, and that is simultaneously playing The Who's Baba O'Reilly, I start to think that maybe he had a point.

Boom de yada indeed.