Samsung
I for one, welcome our Samsung overlords.
C M I K E S E L L D O T C O M
The life of a traveller
(Point of note: As I typed this up, I found out I’m going to Napa Valley for an event in two weeks)
As I sit in the Admiral’s Club in LA waiting for my flight to San Diego for Comic-Con, I’m reflecting on my past year. I’ve been back at AMD for a year now and things have changed so much in the year since I’ve been back.
To start, I came back to AMD with the promise of a newly developed Demo Team (Demo meaning a team of people who demonstrate technologies around the world at tradeshows and events). I started off the job working in our showcase area in our headquarters executive building. I stayed pretty grounded at first, giving tours of the showcase room. Then someone requested my presence in San Francisco for an event we hold yearly in September. That was the beginning of a LONG 9 months (and counting).
In that time I’ve gone on roughly 20 business trips, flown over 75,000 miles, and neglected my yard nearly the whole time. hah.
It’s been awesome, and I can’t wait to see what the next year will bring. I’ve got great bosses, great co-workers, and a great job. I’m going to hold on to the job as long as I possibly can.
Highlights of all the traveling:
Making some good friends in Munich
Being mobbed by kids at LAX on my way to Taiwan and having them chant “Mario Mario Mario!” As I played Angry Birds (I had a moustache at the time).
Hanging out with a friend from home in Berlin for nearly a week.
Downside:
Sleeping in my hotel room while the Mad Men season 4 Premiere party was going on in my hotel in NYC (with the entire cast at the party)
That’s it, that’s the only thing I regret.
Random nerdy thought about space travel
Space travel is a great idea. The thought of flying around the solar system, galaxy and even the entire universe sounds like a great idea.
Problem with it. If we somehow solve the problem with not-being able to go fast enough to make interstellar travel possible, we still have the problem of being able to find our way home. It’s not like the ship would be able to use a GPS device.
The universe is constantly expanding at a rate great enough to where even if we were able to achieve speeds faster than the speed of light, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to reach the furthest reaches of space and come back. The problem with coming back is, our picture of the universe is fixed in time, heck, a lot of the stars we are looking at in the sky could very well not even exist by the time we were able to get to them.
Basically, if we send off a space-ship to travel the far reaches of the universe (which for all we know, has no end). We should never expect the ship to return, ever. Because it won’t. If it magically did, it would be hundreds of thousands of years later. People would have either wiped ourselves off the face of the earth, or evolved into something unrecognizable to the inhabitants of the space-ship (which probably also would have evolved on a completely different pathline.
It’s really sad to think about the fact that unless beings from other planets make themselves known to us, that we will never truly know if there is life on other planets. And who’s to say the aliens that may make themselves known to us aren’t just the old inhabitants of earth or mars, or whatever, returning from a hundred thousand+ year old journey.
You should watch this three times
Tacos
Well yeah
Well yeah, she’s a boner
Blazier tag
Laser tag where everyone wears blazers with sensors on them.
Went to the arcade museum while in San Francisco. Here’s one of the awesome games they have on display. Got in a few good rounds of ski ball.
