gVegas

Have you ever wondered how geeks to road trips in 2008? Well here is a good example of geeks doing a Los Vegas.

Take seven Google engineers and one bay area sales engineer. Rent one 12 person van. Have several laptops, GPS, webcam and EDGE cards and some scripting knowledge. What you get is a super cool real time google maps mashup.

Visit http://www.navjagpal.com/vegas/ to see real time snapshots of the trip and chat with the crew as they drive from San Francisco to Las Vegas for James Stag party.

Vissions of San Fran

I think its amazing how different San Francisco is from neighborhood to neighborhood, here a few photos I have taken in the last few months.

this first one was taken in the Tender Nob, some times it seems like some parts of San Francisco are dissolving...




This next one was actully taken on the other side of the golden gate bridge, it was amazing to see this guy stack these rocks... no clue involved.




The spider was my first black and white in a few years, it was taken near the ferry building downtown. I think that the sculpture is an amazing piece of art.

Mashup your reality

I am not sure that people even read these things but if you are reading this then feel free to comment.

I have been playing around with digital mashups. This one is from the songbird launch party and graffiti at ocean beach:



This next one is a mashup from sculpture piece at the De Young museum and a paining from bar Mojito:





I am always looking for interesting photo/video mashups. Ping me if you are down with the buddha

Weekend in San Fran

So I went to Berkley for the first time a few weeks ago. Yes thats right I have lived in the Bay area for over 2 years and have never been to Berkley. I went with some friends for a drive though the town and then down to the Gourmet Ghetto.

We found this interesting little Tea place. Here is a pic.




It was funny going to a Tea house in the US, I have been to places like this in China. The food was pretty good and the team was not too bad.

In general I did not think that Berkley was as good as I would expected. I thought it would be more hip and trendy but it was pretty quite and did not seem to have much going on.


I also went out to the mission, it was crazy weather out. My friends and I went to dinner at this interesting Asian place that had really good seared tuna... mmm seared tuna.

We were then going to the Elbow Room but it was raining like crazy so we stopped in to this super dive bar... Here is a pics of the WC.