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2008: in cities

Following Sunil’s lead (after Kottke’s lead), here is the list of cities I visited in 2008, in order. I only ended up flying 15183 miles, but I visited 2 countries I’ve never been to before.

  • Bothell, WA*
  • Seattle, WA*
  • San Francisco, CA*
  • Foster City, CA
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands*
  • Den Haag, Netherlands*
  • Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
  • Mazatlan, Mexico
  • Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  • Inglewood, Los Angeles, CA

One or more nights spent in each place. Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.

Cue background

For the uninitiated, my name is Clint Tseng. I’m a graphics designer/software engineer working at a small software company in Redmond, WA called Sharplogic Software. Over the years I have owned numerous websites, including my now-nonexistent previous blog, \\unload, which ran on Ryan “wonko” Grove’s excellent Poseidon CMS engine, which, sadly, is defunct as well.

I am currently a student in the University of Washington’s Computer Engineering department, though I still hold that real life development experience is far more valuable than any textbook. I’m in the honors program because through a series of strange circumstances, it’s less work for me than the regular program would be.

In my spare time, I like to pretend that I’m actually making progress on the many personal projects I have going on, hopefully some one of which will someday make me rich. I also play copious and potentially unhealthy amounts of Unreal Tournament and Rise of Nations with my friends. I also listen to a great deal of music, which brings me to another thing I often do, which is pretend to be writing music, for which I get the urge whenever I hear a good song.

What I do actually end up making progress on is DJ-ing, which requires far less time commitment. I spin mostly DnB, Chemical Breaks, and Trance, though “spin” is a relative term given that I work mostly with Ableton Live, which I suppose makes me a cheater. I try to make up for it, though, by taking full advantage of Ableton’s additional complexity and power.

So that’s me in a nutshell. It has taken me about half an hour to type this, because I am forcing myself to use dvorak only, which I haven’t used in about a year.

Ha.