{"id":399,"date":"2010-12-18T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T03:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2010-12-18T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T03:36:14","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"new beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kiel\/4726731208\/\" title=\"_MG_7757 by Kiel, on Flickr\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1131\/4726731208_e4a4589a95_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"_MG_7757\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs most of you already know, I moved from Nebraska to San Francisco in July.  I haven&#8217;t really written anything since that happened &#8211; not for a lack of things to say, but a matter of priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a rainy, chilly day &#8211; the kind that would probably result in some snow and a Christmas letter back home.  In that spirit, some thoughts on life in the city:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m living in a tiny studio in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco,_California\">SoMa<\/a> not far from Townsend Street.  It may be small, but it&#8217;s warm, modern, and I have nice neighbors, so it&#8217;s hard to want anything else.<\/li>\n<li>I had interview requests from around 20 companies when I came out here.  It didn&#8217;t take me too long to figure out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/\">Eventbrite<\/a> was where I wanted to be.  (Obvious disclaimer:  any thoughts or opinions expressed herein are mine alone and may or may not reflect those of my employer.)  I signed on as a Mobile Software Engineer and worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eventbrite.com\/barcode-scanning\">2.0 release of the Easy Entry iPhone App<\/a>.  Obviously working on iOS apps is a ton of fun, but it&#8217;s even better to have incredibly smart and fun co-workers.  Speaking of which:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/jobs\/\">Eventbrite is hiring<\/a>.  Come play with us!<\/li>\n<li>Testing our iPhone app has resulted in getting to attend some pretty cool events. Like the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eventbrite.com\/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-is-2-legit-doesnt-quit\">TechCrunch Disrupt after party featuring MC Hammer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=343ABos0rEQ\">Kaskade at the Warfield<\/a>, and Fleet Week at Fort Mason featuring Warren G, among others.<\/li>\n<li>In a life milestone, I attended my first John Digweed show.<\/li>\n<li>I gave the carless life a shot for 3 months after moving to San Francisco.  I am very close to Caltrain, Muni Metro, and Zipcars, but all in all, it simply didn&#8217;t work out.  Fortunately, I can walk to work, so my car is free to a life of leisure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kiel\/5059356526\/\" title=\"_MG_8772 by Kiel, on Flickr\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4089\/5059356526_f61b9d0a06_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"_MG_8772\" \/><\/a>I went back to Missouri at the end of September to get my Accord and some of the belongings I hadn&#8217;t brought when I first flew out here.  The trip back to California took me through Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and of course California for a total of 3,200 miles over 10 days.  No mechanical failures occurred and my Accord reached 191,000 miles on the odometer. I got to spend some time among the Tetons, around Yellowstone, and went camping in Wyoming.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kiel\/5037853746\/\" title=\"_MG_9178 by Kiel, on Flickr\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4151\/5037853746_9babd8c177_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"_MG_9178\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Commuting by car (and for that matter, public transport) is relatively hellish here by midwestern standards, but recreational driving is at least as fun here as it was in Missouri.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_State_Route_35\">CA-35<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_State_Route_84\">CA-84<\/a> are breathtaking and I plan to see some more of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_State_Route_1\">CA-1<\/a> after the holidays.  I&#8217;ve also visited Laguna Seca; Infineon may follow next spring.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kiel\/4984545645\/\" title=\"complementary colors be complementin'. by Kiel, on Flickr\" style=\"float:right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4087\/4984545645_1e894a26ed_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"complementary colors be complementin'.\" \/><\/a>As far as people around here go &#8211; well, there are nice ones and not-so-nice ones.  There are a lot of &#8216;transplants&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>The fact that Caltrain is still diesel and not electric bothers me a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Gran Turismo 5 finally came out.<\/li>\n<li>I am making up for my previous inability to do so by buying a ton of stuff at IKEA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been here long enough that I&#8217;ve kind of forgotten about the day-to-day weirdness.  If there&#8217;s something you wish you knew &#8211; ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you already know, I moved from Nebraska to San Francisco in July. I haven&#8217;t really written anything since that happened &#8211; not for a lack of things to say, but a matter of priorities. Today is a rainy, chilly day &#8211; the kind that would probably result in some snow and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">new beginnings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_markdown_editor_remember":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}