Category Archives: travel

Fort Wellington, near Korcula, Croatia

By Dave | Published: November 8, 2010

Click here for larger size. In 2008, a number of friends and I traveled around the Adriatic Sea on a sailboat, visiting various islands off the coast of Croatia. Toward the end of our trip, we stopped by the small coastal village of Korčula (map). While there, I decided to take off for a bit [...]

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60 hours in Boston

By Dave | Published: September 26, 2010

Last week, I was in Boston to help setup our latest gdgt live event (recap soon). I landed in Boston at 7AM on Tuesday and left at around 7PM on Thursday. For the 60 hours or so that I was in Boston, here’s a heat map of the locations I visited, based on my Foursquare [...]

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Civ V and OS X – A mark of desperation

By Dave | Published: September 23, 2010

I’m currently somewhere over New York state, flying Virgin America back from Boston (where we had our gdgt live event last night). I only brought my iPad with me on this trip. Which is painful, because Civilization V is currently out! So, I wanted to see if it was even possible to play. Are you [...]

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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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