With only a handful of stitches on my knee, there is no doubt about it that God saved me that day. I took these pictures only a couple of hours after the accident and being released from the hospital. Seventy mph on cruise control and one concrete pillar later I somehow crawled out the back window in one piece. Enjoy.
July 18, 2009, 1:55pm Comments
I’m in my last week of college, which I’m extremely excited about but at the same time I’m nostalgically sad to realize that the things I loved most about going to Cal Poly will soon be only a memory. In an earlier post I wrote about how my college experience has been a bit disappointing, and further discussing this with my fiance, I have to say that Cal Poly has given me more than I ever imagined. Most importantly, I owe the opportunity to go work for Cisco to Cal Poly, after-all it is what most people go to college for right?
Here is a list:
A full-time job at Cisco starting August 18th
Fellowship and relationships with some incredible people, most of which were also formed through campus crusade.
Bike rides through through the oak trees on campus to get to class or the gym.
This is one of my favorite things. Riding through the shade and on the sun-spotted grass, I can see the beautiful business building on my left with the rose garden and football stadium on my right..simply gorgeous and invigorating. If you want to check out what this is like go to the web cam here!
Beach volleyball. We had a solid group of guys who play throughout the week on campus. It was excellent to take a dip in the pool after playing in the hot sun.
Basketball. Also some great competition in an awesome rec center. Dunks for days ja’ll.
The library. I know, i know..how nerdy right? The library was an excellent place to study. State of the art equipment and cafe for extreme studying.
Baguette sandwiches. I loved these even though they could only be bought at random times. I don’t know why they had such a shortage of supply.
Cal Poly, you will be missed.
June 05, 2009, 5:14pm Comments
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June 01, 2009, 1:22pm Comments
I recently bought a pair of Nike Air Jordan Retro 11, which I loved as soon as I put them on. They not only were comfortable and light, but looked unique as well. I was dissapointed though after only playing in them for a few months to find that they broke down fairly quickly. I have had a hurt heel as well which started after coming down from a dunk. I don’t know if it was because of the shoe, or just because of my own recklessness.
So? I’ve gone back to my roots of my highschool days and bought a pair of Adidas pro model fusion. They are slightly different with a few improvements from my original pair. They’re comfortable, light, and sturdy.
“Let it rain! Let it rain!!!!!” - AGHS ball boy/manager, Pooj.
May 07, 2009, 10:21am Comments
Kevin Rose created an excellent site called wefollow.com. The site allows you to tag yourself under different categories in simple yet elegant interface. In my opinion this app makes twitter. With thousands joining twitter daily, it’s hard to find the right person to follow. Wefollow.com solves this problem.
May 05, 2009, 3:15pm Comments
For the last few months I’ve been putting in some good quality time to dedicate to learning Ruby on Rails. Although only able to do the basics, I feel I’ve come extremely far. The ability to quickly get a working web app up and going is such a great feeling. With only a little bit of programming experience, I have listened to the advice the great rails creators like David Hansson and jumped in without even having a concrete understanding of the ruby language. It can be done. Do it.
Three great resources I’ve been using to get up and going.
1) Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd Edition
3) #rubyonrails irc chat room on the freenode (an incredible resource).
April 27, 2009, 9:25pm Comments
Now into my last quarter at Cal Poly, I have to say that I’m having mixed feelings. After five years I’m thrilled to be getting out, but at the same time I don’t know whether I feel that I gained great skills and great knowledge. I can only say there were a handfull of courses that I actually benefited from in those five years and most of them being non-technical.
One of the classes that really standout as an exceptional experience was my classical music appreciation class at the community college before I transfered to Cal Poly. The professor was a brilliant guy from Austria who had a passion for impacting lives, and was a successful pianist and composer on the side.
So all said and done, I will be leaving Cal Poly and my college experience a bit unsatisfied but ready to be done with school for now and go to work at Cisco.
April 16, 2009, 11:34am Comments
PolyCareers has been live for a little while now and we have had some great contributions to the site, keeping in mind most of these internship reviews have been from our friends. Now the question is how do we convert the user sign-ups to actual reviews. I’m seeing user sign-ups daily but no reviews coming from those sign-ups. I think the problem is users are expecting a different page that allows actions to be taken after signing up. We need more clarity in usability. Any thoughts on how we can improve?
April 14, 2009, 11:27am Comments
As a student at Cal Poly, there have been a couple of different ways that students have been able to sell their books to one another besides the usual of getting ripped off by selling back to the campus book store. One: ScrewTheBookStore.com and Two: Uloop.com.
I originally used screwthebookstore. Why? because there were enough students on it buying and selling. There was already a community there. How did they get this community? They were one of the first online sites up that offered this service. Similar to myspace, word of mouth soon becomes the selling point when there is not much else out there.
Since then, a new service has come onto the scene called Uloop. I like Uloop much more and they have recently won me over. I made this transition just recently due to the fact that screwthebookstore was not working. The site was incredibly slow ( not to mention the design is horendous), and I had to a) sell my books back to campus and get ripped, or b) find another service out there. Uloop does a lot right. For one, they make signups easy. All you need is a .edu email address, which is great because allthough the audience is large, it is still niche. The design is great. My good friend James Edmondson who is one of the best graphic designers I know, if not the best at the young ripe of of just 21, introduced me to the css grid concept which he used with PolyCareers.com. Uloop also uses the grid, which keeps things simple and intuitive. 37 Signals Jason Fried is a huge advocate of this and created a bit of controversy when he stated that the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web. Lastly, Uloops works. I am easily able to post items for sale and search for items I need. The community has definitely grown since I last checked it out, making it a great compository for content.
April 09, 2009, 9:44am Comments
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