For everything from family to computers…
Yes, I am late. Very late.
But still, a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Â 😀 Â If any of you know of a way to share links easier and faster on WordPress pages (like mine), please let me know!! Â I wish there was something like “Google+1” or “Share on Facebook” but on my WordPress site.
Well, I knew it was coming and it is here! As some of you know, I was in California for total of a month on working the Boeing’s CCDev wind tunnel test at NASA Ames Research Center’s Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel. What I hadn’t told you guys was that Discovery Channel Canada came to do an interview to do 5 minute short on this test! I was on the night shift and they came to do the interview and video taping during the day.
Well, I am glad to see my co-workers and our very own project on TV!  :D Watch the clip if you haven’t already!
Holy cow!! They are making a comeback!! Support if you are a fan please!!
It’s been a while since I had visited the Bay Area so I took the Saturday to (re)visit the area. Â First of all, someone should’ve told me that it is PACKED with traffic! Â The traffic in Houston was NOTHING compared to the Bay Area! Â Second, that the parking would be horrendous! Â I wanted to visit the Coit Tower but ended up parking way off and walk up to the tower.
That’s Coit Tower in the center…
The hills really ARE steep in San Francisco!
That’s Alcatraz, the infamous prison island…
The views are simply breathtaking! Â It’s true that San Francisco is a beautiful city… I don’t deny that at all…
It is as hilly as it seems from this view!
View on my way down…
Coit Tower from the bottom…
And who can forget the (overrated) Golden Gate Bridget?! Â 😛
And driving across it…
And I got to drink lots of great coffee!
And I got to see my cousins… This is my cousin Michelle and her family…
And this is Sunny and their daughter…
Love the Dilbert, and it hit home run today with this comic strip!
Seriously, Apple, you need to shape up… you are making me hate you even more! Â Innovation, my butt!
So while I was in the Silicon Valley area, I decided to do the ultra nerd tour! Â I already missed a few like Twitter and Yelp but here are those that I managed to see… in the order of places visited…
Apple (even though I may not like it!)
Seagate!
Google!!
Intuit
Facebook!
Facebook II!
Skype
HP
Nokia
Microsoft
Yahoo!
eBay
Netflix
Motorola
nVidia
Tesla
They had a Tesla showroom at San Jose mall area that Jim & MJ took me to! Â It was awesome looking car! Â Just… bit out of my range at $100k…
So thanks to Chase’s cash back program, we got an Android tablet! It’s got Tegra 2 dual core processor, 1 GB memory, 10.1″ IPS screen, 16 GB storage. Yeah, it sounds like every other tablet, but this one has some unique features.
Though I haven’t got it, this tablet has an actual keyboard that you can attach to it. It then becomes a laptop. Ta da… It has transformed!! 😛 Anyhow, it also has a microSD card slot and mini HDMI. And let me just say that it’s beautiful! Text, contrast, graphics are all great.
What makes it even better is that Asus has included two awesome apps: MyCloud and MyNet. The former is a DLNA media sharing app and the latter can access Asus’ cloud AND your own computer! That was ingenious!!
I upgraded it to 3.2 soon as I got it up. It’s perfect! Battery life is awesome too!! So far so good!
Score: 9/10