I stumbled upon a quote the other day that I thought was very interesting:
“Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
via Jacob Huber
While down in Mountain View, CA this last weekend, I couldn’t help but notice the following group of signs:
Let me translate this: “You are not allowed to smoke. You are not allowed to ride your bike. You are not allowed to use your skateboard. And yes, we are indeed watching you right now!”
But that’s okay, because we live in a “Free Country”.
For lunch on Friday, I went down to the Mozilla Foundation. They were doing a presentation for some Stanford students and had a bunch of pizza. I got a tour of the office and met some of the people there. Everyone seemed really friendly and the work environment looks awesome. If I could program any more than a good old “Hello World”, I would definitely want to work there. I was so impressed with the company and their mission, that I decided to help out in a small way. You’ll notice I have a slick looking “Firefox 2″ button over on my sidebar now. If you’re not using Firefox now, I strongly recommend you give it a try!
Today, I am writing from the beautiful city of Mountain View, California, home of Google and Mozilla. I drove down last night to visit my very good Foreign American friend, Fred. It was a long trip, but totally worth it. Today will be spent catching up on things with Fred, whom I haven’t seen since September. Tonight will be spent catching up on some liquid bread. Tomorrow we’ll probably see if we can’t find something to do in San Francisco. Right now, while Fred is diligently coding away at work, I’m shamelessly raiding his kitchen and watching HBO on digital cable. It sure is great to get away for a while! 
A few friends of mine picked out some pretty geeky costumes for us for Halloween this year. It’s kind of a group thing. We had a lot of fun building these things and wearing them. The most ironic of all was when we were walking along and ran into OSU Linux Guru Alex. There he is as Tux, the beloved Linux Penguin. That’s me, the Windows Logo.
A big thanks to Reed, Luke, Jacob, Micah and Karen for making this a memorable night!
