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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Archive for July 23rd, 2004

Yeah, I really do think

July 23rd, 2004


* dsandler . o O ( It’s likely that she only renamed the song “Ironic” after “Shitty Coincidences And Other Things That Suck” turned out to be
a lousy name for a radio single. )

<laz> I’d buy that record.

<dsandler> You would.

Was it Horatio Sanz’s robot?

July 23rd, 2004


<em> so I saw I, Robot last night. better than I expected. the flask of bourbon a friend snuck in may have helped in that regard.

<Trey> The doobie probably helped more, em.

Subtle GE rebrand

July 23rd, 2004



All about the subtle tweaking of the GE brand’s visual identity.

Nihongo-sutairu

July 23rd, 2004


BusinessWeek on the shift of pop culture’s source from the US to Japan. Mentioned: manga, Scion xB, drifting. Also interesting is the positively Victorian idea of a “leisure class” in Japan, comprised of women living with their parents to save money (which can then be spent on stuff).

Didn’t this happen at the end of the last century? Wasn’t the
center of culture, fashion, and style Paris, and then the United States
stole it? Well, we had our “it” century, and now we’re … out.

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