This morning we all got up early and went to get cruffins from Mr Holmes, a bakery in San Francisco. (I secretly hope there’s a rival joint called Dr Watson around the corner selling muissants,[…]
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Month: July 2016
Same mistake as always
I had far too much coffee this morning, so I was a bleary eyed, over stimulated wreck by midday. Somehow I survived this and trundled down to REI, where they’re selling the same ice cream[…]
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Goodbye to the Best Western, and shit
Tonight I checked out of the Best Western and went to stay with friends in San Francisco. The Best Western is not an awful hotel; the mirrors in the bathroom are huge and everything is[…]
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Shortly, broken
I went to the gym today before work, which may have been an ill advised course of action, because I felt dreadful. I set the treadmill for 25 minutes, felt like death after five, and[…]
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Inconsistency in California and urinals
Last night we went out for dinner at a restaurant principally serving hummus, and then a long walk in search of entertainment, which culminated in a faux-English pub called the Rose and Crown, populated by[…]
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Coffee in California
After all my hotel silliness last night, I woke up at 5:30 this morning, a rank injustice after taking so long to get a bed. I could have at least got more than five hours"[…]
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Late checkin to the Beatles Room
After spending the day with friends in San Francisco and a pleasant meal at a French restaurant, I got dropped off at the hotel in Menlo Park where I had my booking for the next[…]
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I, too, was there – Chaos Monkeys
In what may have been an act of self-destructive stupidity, I read Chaos Monkeys on the plane on the way to San Francisco, ahead of my first visit to Facebook HQ. If ever there was[…]
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Fellow travelers and other problems
This morning I woke up early and rode down to East Coast Park for the weekly run, where I went slowly, struggling with tired legs and the consequence of eating an entire pizza the night[…]
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Retrieval mission
Tonight I went back to One North, a technology-themed Golgotha in the west of Singapore, full of buildings called Galaxis and Connexis and probably Streppocoxis, where Insead’s Asian wing skulks, as does Canon’s service centre.[…]
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