I just got this in the mail earlier this week.  Perfect for celebrating the Skins two huge wins against NFC East rivals.

Horny for Zorny

In this area I have noticed an increasingly large number of cars that sport a huge magnet supporting their school.  When I went to college, I don’t think these magnets existed.  It was all about stickers in windows.  These stickers were much more modest in size (vs the magnets), but also represented a more permanent belief in support for a school.  Magnets, because of their more temporary and agile nature, can be placed almost anywhere with less thought and consequence for how your vehicle will end up looking.

Ladies and gentlemen - It is my great pleasure to introduce to you one of my side projects that hopefully will not fizzle out like the rest of them: The Embarrassing World of Big College Car Magnets.  So check it out, pass it along, comment, and participate by sending in pictures.  I need more pics besides just the VA schools!

The Embarrassing World of Big College Car Magnets

It took a while, but I’m pretty happy with the results.  For everyone that took the time to sift through the pictures of our trip, I think the video fills in all the gaps and portrays some of the sights a little better.

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Paris - Eiffel Tower from our hotel room

I have been back from my trip to Europe for a little over a week now and I finally sorted through hundreds of pictures.  Amanda and I went to four cities in a 2.5 weeks: Paris, Berlin, Oswiecim/Auschwitz and Istanbul.  We flew around everywhere and were lucky enough to stay in some decently priced nice hotels.

I trimmed all the pictures down to about 400, but also made a “best of” set on Flickr that sums up the whole trip in 117 pictures.

I also took a ton of video, so I’ll be making a video of that as soon as I find some time.

Check out the pictures on Flickr:

Paris, France (8.20.08-8.23.08, 9.3.08-9.5.08) (128 pics)

Berlin, Germany (8.23.08-8.27.08) (95 pics)

Oswiecim, Poland (8.27.08-8.28.08) (24 pics)

Istanbul, Turkey (8.28.08-9.3.08) (155 pics)

Best of Europe 2008 Set (117 pics)

Also below are some of my favorite pics:

Paris - Champ de Mars at night

Paris - The Louvre

Berlin - Brandenburg Gate

Oswiecim - Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Istanbul - The Grand Bazaar

Istanbul - Basilica Cistern

Tomorrow head on over here to support good friend Dave Werner in his presentation at the Techcrunch 50 Conference.  He’ll be presenting Atmosphir, a game that he’s been working on (and I’ve been lucky enough to beta test).  Tune into the stream live tomorrow (Wednesday September 10th) at 1:30pm EST.

Live Streaming Page: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/index.php.

Update: Dave did awesome!  check it out.

Europe Trip Map - See you in a few weeks!

Long weekend of driving up to CT and back.  The wedding and weather made it worth it.

Check out pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffchin21/sets/72157606669594675/

I’ve just posted my pictures from the Coldplay concert on Flickr, where Juniper Lane opened up.  They did great, and I thought the crowd had a very good response to their short set.  Not many of my pictures came out that well because we were a bit far away, and they didn’t light up the stage that much for Juniper Lane.

Check out the set of pictures: Juniper Lane / Coldplay Set on Flickr.

Also, I caught a local celebrity sitting right by us.  Click through to find out who it was!

(Spike)

Update: Short video of concert:

The crazy weekend never stops. As I’m riding the bus back from NY I get some awesome news that Ashley has extra tickets to go see Coldplay at Verizon center tonight.

Seeing Coldplay is going to be awesome but its going to be even cooler to see friends, juniper lane, as the opening act. They won a contest on dc101 so this is a huge break. I’ll have pics and video tomorrow.

update: Pictures post here.

hey everyone. Excuse my extended absence lately. I’ve been quite occupied. This is the first time I’ve ever posted from my phone but it seems approriate. For the next couple months I will be traveling every weekend except one and won’t have a free weekend until October.

This weekend I’m headed up to NY to visit an old friend. In a few weeks I’m starting on my first trip to Europe since highschool when I went to London. I’ll be hittin Paris, Berlin, and dodging bombs in istanbul. Along the way I also plan on dropping in on krakow, Poland. It should be a busy and interesting time leading up to the best season of the year: fall.

I’m sure I’ll be updating my Flickr photostream a lot more often than this Blog with pics from my mobile. Until next time!

I just installed the Xobni plugin for MS Outlook, and it’s amazing.  It gives me stats such as how many emails I send and receive by hour, by person, median time to respond and many more stats.  Even if you aren’t interested in all that stuff, install it because it adds search capabilities that destroy Outlook’s offering (aka, you can find relevant emails to your search!).  I’ve literally only been using this plug-in for only 30 minutes, but it’s already made Outlook that much more tolerable.  Definitely try it out if you’re looking for a better Outlook experience.

Xobni.com

This is a friendly reminder to check out my photo-blog.  The new one up today is of the very photogenic  Wolftrap venue from onstage after the Bruce Horsnby show.

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Although I grew up wanting to play like Jimi, this video makes me wish that I had known about Chet Atkins rather than all the grunge crap I started out on.

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Went to the Nat’s game on Friday.  Weather was perfect.  Ben’s Chili Bowl was had, a rare 14th inning stretch, and we won 4-3 in the bottom of the 14th.

I think that I’m on the areas worst power grid ever, because my electricity basically goes out when I sneeze. Even when I rented in N. Arlington I ended up losing power every time the wind blew. Can someone fix this (Dominion Electric?!)? I lost power for almost two days from the storm a week or two ago, and then again for a day from Monday’s storm. Luckily I didn’t have to throw away much food. This is a huge downer because everything fun in my house runs on electricity. Books are alright I guess, but Mariokart Wii is infinitely more fun.

Partly for myself for reference, but I’m sure someone out there has been looking for this…an official outages map and number of people affected straight from the horses mouth:

Outages in VA Map
Outages in Northern VA Map
# Affected Table

Harvard gets the greatest commencement speakers (if you haven’t seen Conan O’Brien’s Harvard commencement speech, check it out…). This year, JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, gave the speech. While it wasn’t with as many zingers as Conan’s, she has some great life advice…

…some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
-JK Rowling

http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html via A&A

Bowling at Lucky Strike, originally uploaded by jchin1.

Went bowling last night at Lucky Strike. A lot of fun, but would’ve been better had they worked out their lack of AC problem.

Tom Petty last night at Nissan.

This post is from my phone because my electricity has been out due to yesterdays crazy storm. I just read the article below on WTOP.com that says some areas might not get electricity back until Saturday. Needless to say this is no fun and I miss the comforts of home electronics.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1415430

It’s been a long journey on my site/blog, but I’ve reached for 400th post. I’ve come a long way since my first post, got into writing music reviews for DOA for a short stint, and eventually just started posting pictures and videos of my trips.

I saw the new Indiana Jones last night, and it stuck to the classic Indiana Jones formula, with some pretty cartoonish moments thrown in. Let’s just say Shia LaBeouf can really get up to speed on those vines. All in all entertaining.

I’ll leave you with Weezer’s new video for their single “Pork and Beans”.

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