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So, I'm actually not in San Jose right now
(despite <A href="housing.php3">recently getting housed there</a>)
and a lot of you have been
writing in to see what I'm <b>actually</b> doing. I'm starting a
company: FoundThere.com. (There isn't a hyperlink for a reason - there
isn't a website yet!) We're fully <a href="http://www.incorporate.com/">incorporated</a> and licensed for
business in California. Now we just need to make some money. =)
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I'm starting this company as the founder: i.e., I'm the one whose
job it is to make this company actually happen and take off. I have
two compatriots who (out of the kindness of their hearts and for
half of the company) are providing office space, money, and connections
for me. The only catch is that they're in Los Angeles. I've made two promises
to myself regarding my career: I will never work for Microsoft and
I will never live in L.A. Ack.
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So I'm working with a bunch of really cool people in this office:
they're all Korean and working on sites like <a href="http://www.koreanz.com/">Koreanz.com</a>
(go and learn how to <a href="http://www.koreanz.com/English/Korean365/">read Korean</a>!) and <a href="http://www.tunewiz.com/">TuneWiz</a>.
Very smart folks, but it is sort of unreal to be sitting around and be
the only one who can't understand anything being said in the office.
(<b>Everyone</b> else here is Korean!) The upside? Korean BBQ. Mmmmm....
and they're teaching me <a href="http://www.learn2.com/06/0607/0607.asp">how you're *actually* supposed to use chopsticks</a>.
In return, I explain <a href="http://www.britannica.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=dental+floss">floss</a> to them. =) It's fun.
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Probably the saddest part about all of this is it means that I can't
be up by Stanford with Vanessa; we're on our third year of doing
<a href="http://home.att.net/~larrydla/basics_0.html">Argentine
Tango</a> together and are both beginning to really get the hang of it. So
it's pretty sad to not be getting to practice all those really cool moves
with her. [sigh]
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But short of that, I'm now over (I think!) my incredibly nasty 2-week-long
cough cum cold cum NOSE-RUNNING-LIKE-A-FAUCET bout with influenza (aka
"the flu") likely cured courtesy of a warmed cocktail of voodoo drugs
given to me by my Korean friends. "Chinese medicine!" they stammer out to
me in the friendliest broken English ever, handing me a hot chemical
bottle with absolutely no English on it, but pages worth of Korean
(presumably warnings). [giggle] "Did you just give me liquid crack?" I
asked them (which, once translated back to Korean, was actually still funny).
Whatever it was, I'm better now. Ah. And I just bought
"<a href="http://www.kohala.com/start/unpv12e.html">Unix Network
Programming</a>" by Stevens. Yay! Fun reading - one of the best technical
books <b>ever</b>! =)
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