travel
Since I moved to the US, having a week-long road trip on Thanksgiving holidays became my family ritual: 2021 was in the Grand Canyon, and 2022 was on the great Canyon Loops. This year, we wanted to have a more "American" Thanksgiving. My wife had her 8th grade
moloco
Last month, I attended Moloco Spark, a leadership program at my company. It is a four-day program for employees who are newly becoming senior engineers. This time was the first, Spark-0 - a pilot program, so many senior members participated in it to provide feedback to improve the program. And
book
My recent book reading was "Fairy Tale" by Stephen King. It was my first time reading Stephen King's novel (not even in Korean); I knew some of his works, such as Misery, but mostly by the screen adaptation. I read his memoir "On Writing."
bayarea
Due to the incident of 2022, Karl has been an archenemy of my family. So, Fleet Week returned to San Francisco this year, and I wished Karl had spared some generosity to us all. The result was the success of half. The weather was perfect for Friday and Saturday, but
49ers
I couldn't follow up on recent events for the time being due to busy days. I have to update several of my events backlogged, and I'm urged to address my first NFL game visit this year (Oct. 1st, vs Cardinals) while we are still in the
bayarea
Last week, I visited NYC for Programmatic IO 2023. It was my third time at the conference and my second time in NYC. The conference was so-so, but I learned that people were now talking and having aligned terminology about CTV (Connected TV) ads - the domain I'm
apple
Buying a new iPhone on day one was my ritual; no, it has been a rather religious duty. I had bought a new iPhone every year since 2009 (3GS), but even to me, 'every year' was getting too challenging as the gadget went into the luxury domain. So,
travel
We punched another National Park during the last Labor Day long weekend: Redwood National and States Parks. I hadn't been up to it because it was a little far (more than 6 6-hour drive), and I was not sure what the difference would be to other good California
giants
The Giants were officially eliminated from the postseason. And the team announced they fired Gabe Kepler. I liked his team's underdog spirit. I know how that impulsive buying devastated the farm and the team's 2010s. No big-money players, but the team was solid; especially, the 2021
gamedev
I don’t understand why Unity made such a stupid decision; it should make unrecoverable damage to Unity. Too many pundits have already mentioned this frenzy event. I put this down just to 1) I realize I haven’t written anything in this month, and 2) refresh my claim: "
tech
In my last post about the Karol G concert, I wondered how the Cyalume (LED Wristband) works. And I found the answer. Though I prefer NYT to WSJ, I believe WSJ has been doing great work on their YouTube channel. The beauty of its videos is the short playtime: 5
movie
Porco Rosso (紅の豚) is my favorite movie by Director Hayao Miyazaki. It was a movie from 1992, and I might have watched it more than 20 times. I even translated the script of the movie into Korean and ran it at a small cinematheque in 1994 (when I was a
