Published on
February 21, 2006 in
Berkeley.
I’m flying down to Berkeley this afternoon to work Cal’s Internship & Summer Job Fair tomorrow. [Opportunistic Recruiting Plug: If you're a Cal student with passion for software and you're looking for an internship or full-time opportunity, you should come by and chat. Even though it's primarily an internship career fair, we have plenty of full-time opportunities as well.]
Vidya is going to be there representing her employer, and Kenny is coming along because we’ve been looking for an excuse to go to Berkeley and have a yummy dinner. While Kenny is there, he is going to be working remotely. I remembered from the last time we were in Berkeley that it was a little bit difficult to find places with wireless internet (our hotel had wireless access, but only in the lobby). So I did a little web search.
The on-campus wireless network, AirBears, is only open to current faculty and students. No love for alumni. Which basically leaves local coffee shops. I found two websites with listings of cafes with wi-fi in Berkeley. The lists are short, possibly out of date, and include few places that are all that close to campus. And for some of the listings, it seems that the “free wi-fi” they refer to is just AirBears, which we can’t access.
I thought this was odd, as I can barely throw a stone in Seattle without hitting a cafe that has wi-fi. I think there are at least four on our little 15th Ave strip right behind our condo. Kenny was surprised too:
Kenny: Didn’t Berkeley, like, invent the Internet?
Lauren: No, silly, that was Al Gore.
Update 2/23/06, 10:04PM: It turns out that Yali’s is a good place for wireless.
Published on
February 21, 2006 in
Berkeley.
The PI ran a story today about the difficulties of sharing a name with a president. My college roommate could tell you all about that one. She’s just hoping that Grover Cleveland, age 42, of Seattle, doesn’t come after her for stealing his email address.
Published on
February 17, 2006 in
Geek.
I (almost) never watch TV. But I’ve been watching a lot of Winter Olympics this week. In fact, KW and I spent our V-day drinking wine and watching the Olympics. It’s a good thing we didn’t know about the Olympic Drinking Game at the time, or we would have been in trouble on Thursday morning.
And snowboard cross is my new favorite Winter Olympics event.
I had a little snowboarding accident this week. Nothing terrible, but my lower lip got a bit mangled. I looked like I got into a fight. I’ve been telling people I got into a fight with a bear (“You think I look bad, you should see the bear!”) A couple of people actually believed the story at first. :)
Four days later, the swelling has gone down considerably and the bruising has faded – so now it mostly looks like I have a very chapped lip. I’ll spare you guys and refrain from posting any pictures of how I looked on Wednesday.
You know what’s better than watching your team lose the Super Bowl? Beautiful powdery snow in Whistler, no lift lines, and yummy meals at Quattro and La Rua.
It was awesome. I highly recommend heading out to the slopes on big football game days (unfortunately there won’t be any more of those this season). And hey, we still got to hear our team losing the Super Bowl on the drive back.