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On This Day...

• 2011: Public transit day — Today was a day for buses, subway rides, and lots and lots of walking around. We’re helping J- learn how [...]
• 2010: Getting the hang of leading small things — I’m working on an expertise location pilot for a group of IBMers around the world. My team members are [...]
• 2009: Started my Improv 101 class! — Today was the first session of the 8-week Improv 101 series at Impatient Theatre, and I had tons of fun. Among [...]
• 2007: Announcing: Book Snake blog! — New blog! I’ll be sharing my book notes over at Booksnake.sachachua.com. If you’ve ever wondered what I’m learning from the [...]
• 2007: Learning languages — I enjoy learning languages. There’s something about straining to pick out one or two recognizable words from a stream of syllables, [...]
• 2006: TorCHI social — As Gabriel Mansour went to all the trouble of e-mailing, texting, and calling me to make sure I got to TorCHI, [...]
• 2006: New suitemate! — Krystal just moved in. I’ve seen her around Graduate House, but haven’t really talked to her much. She’s friends with Michelle, though. [...]
• 2006: Neatening up — Having decided that helpless messiness is _not_ part of my core identity, I spent the entire afternoon sorting my room out. It’s [...]
• 2006: In case of emergency, break open stationery — I’m glad my mom insisted that I keep emergency giftwrap in my suite, that my sister taught me how to bake [...]
• 2006: Remembering my purpose; hooray for writing! — I tried to go to sleep earlier than usual last night, and I was hit by a bout of existential angst. [...]
• 2006: Emacs: Automating the insertion of text — As the VP Education of Toast I.T. Toastmasters in downtown Toronto, I’m responsible for assigning people roles in upcoming meetings [...]
• 2005: Milestone: first time to use a washing machine — I stood in front of the washing machine and carefully read the instructions. I was no stranger to washing my clothes, [...]
• 2004: Overlay handling — I finally figured out what was zapping my Japanese input on Planner pages: an overzealous extents+overlays zap in emacs-wiki. I read through [...]