1. Goodbye Seattle!

    seattle flight

    I can’t believe that this is it! I’m leaving Seattle which has been home for more than 15 years. It feels odd to be leaving a place with familiar faces and places and venturing off to a new area with soo many unknowns.

    I’m excited for this move both personally and professionally, I believe both will have their challenges but will be equally rewarding. 

    Thank you to all the friends and family that made it out for a meal, coffee, or party these last few weeks. I have truly enjoyed meeting up with everyone, and to those that I didn’t get a chance to meetup I hope to see you down in the Bay area or catch-up with you when I’m back in Seattle.

  2. How to Become a Marrow Donor

    I signed up to be a marrow donor after watching Janet Liang’s video asking people to become bone donors. There are 10,000 patients that need a transplant and only half of them receive one. This number goes up for minorities. 

    After signing up to be a transplant online you’ll get a kit in the mail a couple days later and the steps were very simple and painless:

    Signup to become a marrow donor 

  3. lily320:

Oh Team Photo day  … 

    lily320:

    Oh Team Photo day  … 

  4. Awesome on soo many levels!

  5. The Content Farm: How to Calculate Your Age →

    thecontentfarm:

    Your age is an important thing to know about yourself. You can’t go to school or drink alcohol or get into a good nursing home if you don’t know your age. But it’s hard to find out how old you are if you don’t know. Human beings aren’t horses; you can’t just cut us open and count the rings!

    That’s why you’ve got to use this method to find out what your age is.

  6. Wolverine? Or 2 Bat Men?

    Wolverine? Or 2 Bat Men?

  7. 
“A pic I took yesterday of Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers#jan25 http://yfrog.com/h02gvclj” - @NevineZaki

    “A pic I took yesterday of Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers#jan25 http://yfrog.com/h02gvclj” - @NevineZaki

  8. Volkswagen Commercial: The Force

  9. The beginning of the year is a popular time for people to start making resolutions. Personally I’m not too big on resolutions, but as I get older I thought it would be wise to start living and eating more healthy. 

    Being an ADD Gen Y’er I wasn’t too interested in taking another fitness class or nutrition class but instead was looking for a smart quick way to get fit and healthy. I came across Tim Ferriss’s new The 4-Hour Body book. I havent read the book yet, but would be interested to hear from those that have. Here are some of the things the book claims:

    • How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.
    • How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) 
    • How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice 
    • How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time 
    • How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested 
    • How to produce 15-minute female orgasms 
    • How to triple testosterone and double sperm count
    • How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks 
    • How to reverse “permanent” injuries 
    • How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months 
    • How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit

    What do you guys think? Is Tim Ferriss all smoke and mirrors?  Or has he found a quick hack to healthier living?

  10. Facebook Messages: Game Changer, More Like Game Snoozer

    facebook-messages

    I like Facebook, I really do. I keep Facebook open all day, am a proud early adopter with an edu account, loved the news feed amidst the initial criticism, and was excited to upgrade my messages to the new messages last week. I soo want Facebook’s new messages to be the next game changer which will eliminate my need for email, but I’m afraid to say that the new messages is Facebook’s Wave and leaving alot of people asking, “So whats different from the old Facebook messages?”

    Essentially Facebook messages brings all your messaging together through text messages, emails, and Facebook chat conversations. The idea is that once you start a conversation you can use any means of communication to continue the conversation. Facebook even gives you a facebook.com email address.

    Call me old school, but I believe different means of communication are used for different scenarios and serve different purposes. Email is typically reserved for more formal, thoughtful, lengthy exchanges. For example if I’m typing an email to my sister asking her how the kids are doing, I wouldn’t want or expect to get a 160 character response via text message or a short chat response. Conversely if I’m sending a text message or chat I’m expecting a short immediate answer to a pressing question that does not require the length or delay of email.

    Sometimes I may have multiple conversations using different mediums with the same person. In this scenario Facebook messages would make things more complicated. For example if I’m sending out an email to a couple people through Facebook messages, while at the same time texting one of those friends asking where we are having lunch, but also engaging in an IM conversation with them throughout the day; Facebook would conveniently yet confusingly mash all these conversations together in one long, out of context thread. 

    Like Google Wave, Facebook is trying to fulfill a need that sounds better in theory than practice. Emailing, texting, and chatting work very well independently and help us keep things in order and within context. If anyone is going to revolutionize the way we communicate I believe Facebook stands the best chance, but the new Facebook messages unfortunately misses the mark.