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2008-02-14
Bogus required insurance
Now that I've left Stanford and ventured into self-funded entrepreneurial waters, I have the joy of paying the full cost for medical insurance. And thanks to a breakdown of what I'm paying for, I discovered it's not just "medical" insurance on the bill. There's a mental health component that usually isn't broken out. My medical insurance bundles this component into the overall plan ...
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2007-06-29
iPhone Mania hits Palo Alto
Steve Jobs said people should queue up at an AT&T store for an iPhone, and he was mostly right. Well past midnight on Thursday, Jenn and I did a tour of the three stores around Palo Alto that will sell the iPhone: the Apple retail stores in Palo Alto and the Stanford Shopping Center, and the AT&T store at Page Mill Rd & El Camino Real. Guess ...
2006-09-23
T-minus 4 weeks to getting cast off?
I broke my wrist playing football a few weeks ago. There was little pain and initial swelling, so I compounded my stupidity by staying in the game until it ended (30 more minutes of potential misalignment) and going to Stanford Barcamp for the rest of the day. Later that night, an acute care doc diagnosed the injury, and by weird chance, he had planned to go to Stanford ...
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2006-04-08
Update on life
I've been at Stanford for a few weeks now. Some happenings and initial impressions:
- After accumulating a decade worth of junk, cross-country moves are... taxing. I will never move again. That's it. They'll have to drag me from our new place. We're still not unpacked and fully situated although I can breathe a little easier now.
- I'm enjoying my new position. On my ...
2006-02-14
New Job at Stanford
The papers are signed and the cross-country move preparations have begun. I'll be returning to research in mid-March as a staff scientist for the Stanford Simbios program, part of Stanford's Bio-X initiative. Initially, most of my time will be spent working with the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Research Lab, a large interdisciplinary group that, in part, models patient-specific blood flow for research and clinical applications. Cardiovascular simulations from ...
