Just a quick pano from my window here at the Parc 55 hotel in San Francisco. WWDC has been a lot of fun, part due to the excellent accommodations I was lucky enough to obtain for the conference. If you look carefully, you can see the tall statue in the center of Union Square.

I’m back at school for the Spring semester and am reasonably excited about it. As I sit here in my apartment, I am quite pleased that I can walk around for the first time in many months without shoes or socks on and not worry about getting my feet dirty. Thank you Roomba. Roomba stopped making beeps, and will need to go in for service, but cleans extremely well anyway. The iRobot people sent a replacement brush guard straight away–but I think this Roomba may have been treated poorly in it’s prior life.

The next few months will provide me with plenty to keep busy; microcontrollers and software and photographs and lasers and wire cutters and books and music and classes and learning and evenings and everything else, but I’ll miss some things from my winter break.

Esther having some foot, me having a messed up sleep schedule, interesting conversations in the bcfg2 IRC channel, and good times with friends.

I think I’m ready though. I’m relaxed. I have a new desktop pattern set. The floor is clean.

I took this picture of the Siebel Center the other day.

It’s worth viewing at full resolution. Click the thumbnail, then “View Full Picture.”

I enjoyed the plant sale at Allerton, but did not buy any plants.

I did however meet a Chinese Musician and managed to take his portrait.

He had many friends, which you might go to Allerton and meet. I did not take their photos because it was starting to rain.

12:00:09, Morse M2 Metric Tap

This week I really enjoyed the first smells of spring as my cold subsided and I got outside. The weather has been beautiful, following some great storms. Today was so nice in fact, I went Geocaching after work. I rode my bike down to the big park on Windsor and had a really enjoyable time. For those interested in Geocaching, I highly recommend using the Google Earth KML file to visualize local cache locations and find convenient targets.

The Laser Galvo project is still going on. As you can see above, I got a special very fine tap in which I will use to thread the holes in the milled aluminum, once that work is done.

One special note about the photographs above; I took them with a Kodak Professional DCS 330 Digital camera, then proceeded to crop them to 2×3. It’s lots of fun to be able to use depth-of-field in a meaningful way again. And the colors are Fantastic. I forgot how great pictures through this old camera could be.

Now on to a beautiful evening of Coding.