Event Driven

As I type this Alex is packing his things to leave.  He is torn about leaving, but given the situation it’s the best decision.  Christophe is back in the US and his project is getting some traction in the community.  Alex wants to work at the time zone of his colleagues.  He’s also super excited [...]

During my time in Shanghai I have continually refrained from gawking and photosnapping at local activity here.  I feel like the camera only furthers the distance between me and my surroundings.  However, when I saw this I could not help but take a photo.
This guy was carrying this glass-door refrigerator by himself on a standard [...]

My bike lasted 9 days.  The night I went to visit Song Shuo’s school I came home and went straight to bed, forgetting that I had left my bike outside the office.  In the morning when Alex and I went to work it was not on the street.
We thought that perhaps the “parking authorities” there [...]

I have been recording my stories in Shanghai from the past two weeks.  Over the next couple days I will be retro-stamping my posts for the appropriate date that the event occurred.
For now, watch the future and the past.

Song Shuo, a fellow intern at Google, invited me to give a presentation to the Apple club at his University, Tongji Uniersity.  The club focuses on bringing Apple developers within the school together to work on projects.  The club helps sponsor scholarships to send members to events around the world.  Song has attended WWDC two [...]

This was the last weekend Christophe was in town.  Alex and I had planned to have a mellow Friday night in anticipation of his going away celebration on Saturday night.  However, being the influential person he is Christophe managed to convince us into going out for dinner.  “I guess the party is starting early” I [...]

Today I bought a bike.  I may be the happiest 外国人 in 上海.
One of the most attractive things about moving to Shanghai was buying a bike and riding around the city.
The story begins the night prior when Alex and I happened across an electric scooter shop.  I thought perhaps they knew where to buy bicycles.  [...]

Yesterday we went back to the street corner from Friday. I can’t believe how receptive everyone is to us hanging out and chatting.
The scene on the corner is far from still.  There is constant commotion of cars coming through, people walking by.  A couple times a night a street sweeper comes through and all the [...]

The flight was amazingly calm, both in the air and in my mind.  To be honest, my lack of emotion surprised me.  I did not feel nervous.  I did not even feel excited.  I simply felt ready.  The anticipation had been so long coming that being on the plane was a relief.  Today I made [...]

I now live in Shanghai, China.  I’m here to spend 3 months as an engineering intern at Google.
It all started with an experimental class at the University of Washington.  The class was called “Problem Solving on Large Scale Clusters” (course website).  The class was an academic outreach initiated by Google to help spread awareness of [...]