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Silicon Valley Roller Girls

August 8, 2009

Saturday evening, time to get out of the house. On upcoming I stumbled on an event I have never been: Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. San Jose has it’s own team, the SVRG, short for; the Silicon Valley Roller Girls. A roller derby is exciting. The two teams try to score points and block the [...]

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7 Year Old Car Thief

July 30, 2009

Imagine you are just 7 years old, and you don’t want to go to church. What do you do? Right, you hijack a car, and get involved in a car chase with the police. Problem solved, I bet the boy didn’t went to church, rather he went to the police station to be questioned. A [...]

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Zurich Trip

July 25, 2009

Summer in Zurich is awesome. Although winter is not bad either, as I was there last December and it was not that cold or rainy at all. Last week rocked in Zurich Switzerland! The first three days the temperature was over 30 degrees Celsius, which is approximately 90-95 Fahrenheit. With a Monday night dinner at [...]

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Shimano Bike Gears Failure

June 16, 2009

Man, what a bummer. I was planning to go to work early to really finish some emails that I had postponed for some time. At one point I switched gears, and BOOM, my back wheel is stuck. I quickly jump of my bike, and carry it to the side of the road. I had to [...]

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Converse Chuck Taylor All Star

May 16, 2009

I just bought myself two pairs of old school Converse Chucks. I love these shoes! I wonder how long these will be as clean as I got them in the picture below here! GIRLS BLACK & PINK CONVERSE ALL STAR SNEAKERS SZ 11 CUTE    US $5.99 All Star Converse Two Tone shoes SKU 1T181    US [...]

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On my way to Europe

April 22, 2009

I just boarded my plane, a BA flight to London. I was super surprised I could not load any Google.com application in the British Airways lounge, so I was stuck with opening multiple tabs with interesting blog posts, instead of downloading all of my feeds in Google Reader. This sucks. I’m used of flipping through [...]

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FAIL: Parking in San Francisco

March 25, 2009

You know the feeling. You run to your car, because you know there is street cleaning today. Unfortunately you are already too late, and there is a parking ticket on your car… $50 wasted. Well at least the city can put that money to work… Yeah Right! But how funny is it that these little [...]

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Should GM go bankrupt

February 16, 2009

How much money can you sink in one company. General Motors is a huge driver in the US economy, and don’t forget the pride of Detroit and the US car industry. But seriously, if you cannot make enough money to keep afloat, you might not have a reason to exist… Apart from all the people [...]

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First time In N Out Burger

February 12, 2009

A few of my European colleagues are crazy about In N Out Burger. As long as I’ve been living in California, I’ve never been to In N Out Burger yet. So for 3 years I have been able to avoid the experience. But today, I have been forced to go to the In N Out [...]

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Parking Tickets San Francisco Style

January 25, 2009

Everybody hates it, getting a parking ticket. And yes, I hate it too! Last week, when I had to take the family out for a short while, and intended to WFH, Work From Home, I totally missed the window for the street cleaning. Monday morning, I thought street cleaning was from 9-11! But nope, it [...]

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