Eric Mesa | April 2, 2013
The wedding day went the way these things always go. If you’re not involved you’re spending most of the day waiting around until it’s time to get your nice clothes on and go to enjoy the wedding. I went to get In-N-Out Burger for lunch and learned that Scarlett really, really likes french fries. There [...]
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Tags: Calfornia, Daniel and Marlene's Wedding, Livermore, Wedding
Eric Mesa | April 2, 2013
Today’s post makes the series name somewhat inaccurate, hence the subtitle. We awoke and, having spent the week debating the best course of action, decided it made the most sense for us to all go to the airport to pick up the rental car since it cost the same to get out there whether it [...]
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Tags: California, Livermore
Eric Mesa | April 1, 2013
After confirming with Danielle that her family didn’t want breakfast, I went out for breakfast and saw the above mustachioed car. They’re for a service called Lyft that uses regular people as cab drivers. More about that here. The first time I learned about the way taxis are regulated was when I was at Cornell. [...]
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Tags: Golden Gate Bridge, Lyft, Pho, Pho 2000, San Francisco, The Mission, Union Square
Eric Mesa | March 29, 2013
We awoke wondering what shape Scarlett would be in. We were instructed to only give her Pedialyte or ginger ale. Scarlett, being her usual picky self, was having none of it. So we decided to try milk. She was OK. The vomiting was over. My in-laws were finally in town and staying at the same [...]
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Tags: Cable Car, California, San Francisco
Eric Mesa | March 28, 2013
When traveling through time zones the first few days are often spent on the home city’s timezone. I ended up spending the entire trip on EST thanks to Scarlett. And that is fine because it made going back to work easy. As I mentioned yesterday, there were a bunch of diners around our hotel. We [...]
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Tags: California, Fisherman's Wharf, Lombard Street, Lori's Diner, San Francisco, Sea Lions
Eric Mesa | March 27, 2013
We flew to San Francisco to attend my brother-in-law’s wedding, but Danielle and I had wanted to go there for years so we decided to have a week-long vacation. Scarlett was amazing on the airplane. It was her second flight in her short life. However, the flight to Florida is so short that if you [...]
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Tags: California, Chinatown, flight, San Francisco
Eric Mesa | January 30, 2012
Dan and I started a website called Comic POW! Where each week we go over the best comics of that week. It’s been going for approximately 3 months and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. The main feature is posted every Friday, but we occasionally have content on other days. I’ve also started writing [...]
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Eric Mesa | May 27, 2011
It’s been a little over a year, so I wanted to make a new, updated list of the podcasts I’m currently listening to. For shows I covered before, I’m just going to copy the description over, verbatim. Science The Naked Scientists – This has nothing to do with nudity. It’s a British thing, like The [...]
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Eric Mesa | March 5, 2011
A little past the end of February I started having problems with my internet connected devices. In the basement we have a Roku box that the wife uses to watch Netflix. She reported that it was no longer connecting to Netflix. We’d had issues before with it needing to be re-registered with Netflix, but that did [...]
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Tags: Comcast, fios, flickr, netflix, roku, Samsung, social media, Twitter, verizon, web 2.0
Eric Mesa | November 13, 2010
Today I went to the funeral of my wife’s uncle. It was a Catholic Mass, so it was pretty interesting trying to match up the Vietnamese with what I knew from English mass. It was also interesting to hear how the priest pronounced “amen” and “hallelujah”. So far in my life I’ve been to two [...]
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Eric Mesa | November 11, 2010
Since apparently I’m a crazy person who thinks he has so much free time, I’ve decided to participate in this year’s National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. Oh yeah, and I waited until 9 Nov to start. I’d heard about it on NPR and on [...]
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Eric Mesa | July 3, 2010
On my Father’s Day Weekend visit to NYC I finally got to see some MoMA exhibits I’d wanted to see for months. First off was a Picasso exhibit called “Variations”. Ever since my parents took me to the Dali Museum in St Petersburg, FL six years ago, I’ve been very interested in painters – especially [...]
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Tags: art, BBQ, flickr, Henri Cartier-Bresson, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, photo essay, photojournalism, Picasso, women
Eric Mesa | January 21, 2010
What I love about programming is the instant feedback. In most programming languages, after you set up a framework for the barest bones of a program you can then run it at every step of the way to confirm that you are moving towards your goal. What I love second-most about programming is the fact [...]
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Tags: Amortization, Amortization Calculator, Amortization Table
Eric Mesa | November 30, 2009
I took this photo with my cell phone while I was in South Florida for my cousin’s wedding. It was just on a whim because I wanted to show some of my family what had changed when I wasn’t looking. Below is what I wrote on the description on flickr along with a little more [...]
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Tags: change, Hialeah, La Palma, Latin Cafe, past
Eric Mesa | October 22, 2009
It’s been nearly a month since I put up the bird feeders in our house and I have been enjoying them nearly every day since then. In fact, the only negative has been the cost of bird food. But, as my mother-in-law put it, I get the benefits of having birds without the hassle of [...]
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