Author: Tony Tam

  • Push up Thursday (1,500)

    Push up Thursday (1,500)

    Push up club starting again.  There are 2 hidden members who are also doing it, but will be more public later (I hope) Other members doing push ups on Thursdays Kelly Shawn Brian JW Scott +50 8:23am on train +70 120 8:37am on train +50 170 8:44am on train +50 220 1:26pm (in cube now,…

  • Daily Life Of A Yahoo! Engineer (archive 2005)

    Daily Life Of A Yahoo! Engineer (archive 2005)

    A Yahoo! Engineer (Y!E) is a very lucky person. Y!E gets into the office anywhere from 6:00am to 10:00am. If this was a bell curve, 80% fall under 9:30-10 Y!E gets to eat freshly cooked omelettes, hot cereal for under $3.00 Y!E gets free espresso drinks all day Y!E gets free pool tables, ping pong,…

  • Pushup Secret Weapon: Model K-2001-40lb

    Pushup Secret Weapon: Model K-2001-40lb

    My secret weapon that helps me build strength for my weekly Thursday pushups 🙂 If you don’t have a Model K-2001-40lb, that’s too bad for you You need to get one on loan.

  • C and ice cream

    C and ice cream

    This kid is hooked. She doesn’t get ice cream when she is with me. But when my sister, Liana is with us, somehow cate usually works in ice cream after a nice meal with veggies. Here is us enjoying a nice break from the heat at the local Loard’s ice cream parlor

  • Music In Subways: I Heart City

    Music In Subways: I Heart City

    This reminds of why I love Paris. Coming out of the in personal depths of the darkness of the tunnels and hearing the most beautiful sounds of live string instruments echoing against the rumbling trains. I sat down on the floor and listened for 10 minutes before coming down to earth.

  • Push Up Thursday (1,400)

    Push Up Thursday (1,400)

    It’s that time of the week, the Y! Pushup Club is going very strong. I’m shooting for 1,400 in 24 hours. It’s going to be harder since I’m seeing Les Miz tonight so I decided to start later to give more time tomorrow Other members doing push ups on Thursdays Kelly Shawn Brian JW Scott…

  • Pull Up Tuesdays

    We have pushup Thursdays. Now is the time to join in the fun and buy the $19.95 pull up bar. I’ve always dreamed of getting one. Head to SportsMart and pick one up.  It’s time to balance your biceps. 100 pull ups. 5 per set.  Nice and easy. 5 (11:030m) 10 (11:35pm) 15 (11:40pm) 20…

  • UCB and Yahoo!

    That photo is of Sproul Hall, the administration building in UCB This announcement brings back floods of memory when I was in UC Berkeley in 1998-1992 Yahoo! Research Labs Establishes New Center of Excellence with UC Berkeley Top Ten Memories Of Berkeley Sitting in a huge auditorium for my first CS 60A class with probably…

  • UC Berkeley and Yahoo!

    This announcement brings back floods of memory when I was in UC Berkeley in 1998-1992 Yahoo! Research Labs Establishes New Center of Excellence with UC Berkeley Top Ten Memories Of Berkeley Sitting in a huge auditorium for my first CS 60A class with probably 200 students listening to Common Lisp programming Falling asleep on the…

  • Push Up Thursday (1,300)

    Here goes my duty of the week for the Y! Push Up Club I’m shooting for 1,300 today (yes I missed my 10pm curfew today, I have an excuse,  I had class til 9:30) Other members doing push ups on Thursdays Kelly Shawn Brian JW Scott Why do we do it? The bigger arms Nothing…