Saket Vora

This weekend I’ll be joining Terrell, Krupali, and some other friends at the SF Outside Lands music festival. It’s a three-day festival with a huge lineup of artists — including Radiohead on Friday! Sunday will also be great, with Jack Johnson, Wilco, Rodrigo y Gabriela, etc. Tim Mowrer was kind enough to let Terrell and I crash at his place for the nights.

My summer roommate Adrius left on Saturday, back to New York. He was sad to leave Stanford (which he calls paradise), but I think he’ll be excited to start his PhD in Finance at the prestigious Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Bikiran tipped me off last week to the availability of Sigur Rós tickets for their October 3rd show at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. I was able to get two tickets, so Nick Steinmetz and I will be headed there in the fall! I can’t wait — I’ve never seen Sigur Rós live and it should be an awesome show. Check out a concert that they did at the MoMA in NYC.

Going to Greg and Kelly’s wedding without a small camera to take photos with was the final straw for me. I bought a Canon Powershot 870IS. By the way, this brings the total number of Canons in my household to five. I chose the 870IS out of the big lineup of Canon pocket cameras for one primary reason: it’s the only one with the 28mm wide angle lens. Also, they got rid of the tiny and frankly useless optical viewfinder to make room for a larger LCD. I’ll post some shots later in the week. I know it appears I’m on a spending spree compared to my usually thrifty habits, but I also picked up a wireless router for my dorm. Having to use wired ethernet if I wanted a secure connection (banking, etc) was getting really old. I’ve now got a 802.11g WPA2 AES with MAC filtering in my apartment, and it’s about time too.

The biggest deadline of my summer at Apple is this Friday…just working hard towards it.