This year's Santarchy itinerary is looking to be pretty crazy.

Siggraph Asia will in Hong Kong the week before, from December 12-15. I've never been to Hong Kong or to China, and it's more or less in the neighborhood and on the way. My employer won't pay for my plane ticket or conference pass but they've allowed me to submit the time as work time ( Read more... )

I get my hair cut at Nancy's Barber Shop in San Rafael. Nancy is a late middle aged Vietnamese woman and runs her barbershop as a one-woman operation. Over the last several months I've gotten her to open up a little about her childhood in Vietnam, experience during the war, and fleeing to America with her children after the war. (Things have ( Read more... )