Author: Tony Tam
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Top 5 memories of Kate before she heads to school
Kate’s going to school next week, sniff.. now on to the memories She loves listening to Jack Johnson’s Sexy Plexy when she falls asleep, I would have it on for her to calm her down. When I was in Paris with her, we listened to that before she fell asleep. That one song always brings me…
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my 4 year old is smarter than I am
4 year old Kate is way smarter than I am She spots every little detail in her story books, facial expressions of all the characters in the page She remembers that there are 6 strings on the guitar without looking at it, I thought there were 7 She learns foreign languages so much better than…
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my 4 year old is smarter than I am
4 year old Cate is way smarter than I am She spots every little detail in her story books, facial expressions of all the characters in the page She remembers that there are 6 strings on the guitar without looking at it, I thought there were 7 She learns foreign languages so much better than…
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What/who can’t you live without?
Interesting question got me thinking: If I were to take one thing away from your life for a month, what one thing would you not want to part with? some type of food car mobile phone laptop toothbrush cable/satellite tv tivo your pet your gym home dsl/cable modem your spouse or partner (taken away on…
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Push Up Thursday (1,700 minus 700)
This week marks 1,000 for many of the club members. I’ve ordered 2 cakes for the team. A chocolate valencia and a lemon chiffon. I’m trying for 1,700 this week +50 (50) 9:05am +70 (120) 11:32am +70 (190) 1:13pm +50 (240) 4:11pm +50 (290) 4:15pm +70 (360) 4:38pm +70 (440) 8:00pm +70 (510) 9:58pm +70…
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Rewards Friday For 1,000
This thursday marks the 1,000 push up milestone of the Y! Push Up Club. On Friday, I will buy a Valencia chocolate cake for the team. Anyone who reaches 1,000 gets a slice. No rewards for just trying, you don’t get to 1,000: NO CAKE I’m counting 8 people in the open doing this, if…
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Smack In The Middle of Downtown SF
I’ve always loved the city, I used to live in the Sunset, but that is totally different than downtown. I’ve made the plunge and put down for a 6 month lease in the middle of downtown at the Rincon Center. Two blocks from the Ferry Building, a few blocks from Caltrains. It’s not the bridge…
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SF Marathon: (2:06:03 #1301) finished, hobbled and humbled
Great race. Record 15,000 participants. I ran the 1/2 marathon this time Update With Official Results: Time: 2:06:03 overall placed #1301 placed 340 out of 647 in the 30-39 age group pace: 9’37” Total 1/2 marathon runners 5513. I’m really happy with the results considering I had to rest 3 times to stretch, and after…
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Too Old At 34 For A Software Engineer
The photo is of my holding my Treo phone, my daughter Cate was taking a photo of me taking a photo of her. My dad was the person who pushed me into software engineering in college (I was drifting a bit with no goals) But after working for 5 years in SGI, my dad saw…