Category Archives: travel

In search of Paul Bunyan

By Dave | Published: August 9, 2010
This weekend, I went camping and canoeing on the Russian River with friends. Near the town of Guerneville, I had an interesting case of real life deja vu. Standing in front of an RV park near town was a giant statue of Paul Bunyan. How giant was he? I am standing in front of him, [...]
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Dislike for Corona saves geologist from death.

By Dave | Published: July 29, 2010
I’m sure Corona’s marketing department is thrilled about this. [H]e returned to his residence in Kabul to find it had been burgled. The intruder took money from a drawer and left behind a bottle of Corona beer. The Corona bottle sat on his counter for the next two weeks Yeager says, because Corona is one [...]
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gdgt live in Chicago

By Dave | Published: May 4, 2010
gdgt is visiting Chicago next week! It’ll be my first visit to the Windy City, so I’m pretty excited. If you’re in the area, come check us out at Gallery 223 (223 West Huron) on May 12th at 7pm. We’ll have a ton of cool gadgets on display, drinks, music, and even the potential to [...]
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Austin, TX – For SF residents in exile

By Dave | Published: March 15, 2010
I’m here in Austin, TX for a few days for our gdgt live event at SXSW. Since such a large contingent of the San Francisco tech crowd is here, a group of San Franciscan folks are handing out SF Embassy cards. On March 11, 2010, the San Francisco diplomatic mission to Austin commenced with the [...]
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Perfect way to start (and end) any trip

By Dave | Published: February 8, 2010
This weekend, a number of our friends ventured to Lake Tahoe for some R&R. We stayed in a friend’s family’s cabin, went snowboarding, and watched the Super Bowl. Of course, the perfect way to start (and end) the trip is by visiting In N’ Out.
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2009 – The Year in Review (Photos)

By Dave | Published: December 26, 2009
A new year, and a new decade are upon us! Here is my annual photographic review of the year. More travels, moving, a new job. So sit down and come along for the ride. You can also see my past year in reviews for 2008 and 2007.
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Where do I go in San Francisco?

By Dave | Published: December 23, 2009
Where Do You Go is an interesting mashup that shows the areas you most frequent in a city, using a heat map layed on top of Google Maps. The data is derived from your Foursquare checkins. The above image represents the areas of San Francisco I most frequent, based on nearly 400 checkins with Foursquare [...]
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Two things you never talk about in an Irish pub

By Dave | Published: December 23, 2009
(Photo via Wikipedia) “There are two things you never talk about in an Irish pub: religion and politics…” Last summer, we traveled to Europe. The campaign to elect the next U.S. President was starting to ramp up and at that point, Barack Obama was a household name. This lead to an interesting conversation with a [...]
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Funny shorts in Barcelona

By Dave | Published: December 18, 2009
While traveling through Europe last year, we stopped for a few days in Barcelona to check out the capital city of Catalonia. The hostel we were staying in gave us a flyer of interesting things to do over the next few days. One particular entry caught our eye. “¡Una nit de curts còmic!” It’s written [...]
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The dark side of Dubai

By Dave | Published: November 30, 2009
Source: Mohamed Somji, via flickr (2007). Just read this fascinating article about the dark side of Dubai, posted by the Independent in April of this year. The article is quite long, but it’s a pretty gripping exposé on the seedy, behind-the-scenes underworld of Dubai and the blind eye that rich tourists, ex-patriots, and locals take [...]
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