Category Archives: travel

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 establishment of the SF [...]
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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 fellow in [...]
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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 in Catalan and [...]
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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 to [...]
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New York City bound!

By Dave | Published: September 27, 2009
Off to New York City this week to help out with gdgt’s east coast launch party on Thursday. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to NYC (last visit was in 2007) and I’m looking forward to it. Unfortunately, there will be little time to play this time. Weather is supposed to be good though! And apparently, I [...]
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The Longest Way

By Dave | Published: September 24, 2009
The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo. I posted this on Laughing Squid last month but apparently forgot to post it here. In November 2007, Christoph Rehage set foot from Beijing, China with a goal of walking to Berlin, Germany, a distance of over 4,500 miles. He created [...]
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Travels through the U.S. and Canada

By Dave | Published: August 28, 2009
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada Last weekend, I returned to San Francisco after a two week road trip across the western United States and Canada. Some of the places we visited included: Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada City of Vancouver and City of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Seattle, Washington Mt. [...]
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