Category: General

You may have noticed I’ve mentioned the photohosting site Flickr quite a bit. I like it a lot for a number of reason, but mainly, because of their open nature, people make cool apps with it.

Geobloggers Map-Shows where you’ve taken photos juxtaposed on a Google Map (you have to input the geography data yourself though)

Mappr Map-Another mapping service, easier to use, not nearly as accurate

Mappr Example

Flickr Graph-an interactive graph of your friends

Flickr Graph example

There are probably other ones I haven’t seen yet. By the way, they’re also giving away free stuff.

create your own visited states map

is a car review: 2005 Audi A6.

No I didn’t write it; I just made the page for it. I’ll be doing that every week.

Finding a place in DC is difficult just due to the shear expense of many of the places.

I found a place that was relatively less-expensive on Craigslist, but take a look at what they wrote back:

-The current tenants are hard of hearing or deaf- the house’s just across from Gallaudet University. We’re pretty much like you except that we can’t speak lol…

-The house is triangle shaped.

-It may be noisy due to the house’s proximity to the intersection. We wouldn’t know lol.

-We have 1 dog, 2 cats and an iguana.

Not to be so narrow-minded, but come on it is weird. As my brother put it, “if you moved there, it sounds a bad sitcom plot.”

So apparently if you run a Google search with the name Allen Lew, you’ll find my Wikibooks user page second. A Yahoo! search for Allen Lew yields my Facebook profile third.

Just surprising how you just the internet can find so much.

So apparently I’ve been locked here at for about an hour US News, due to a “suspicious package.” Just great.

Update: I did get out, and apparently someone sent a fake anthrax letter.

So as I blogged about a little while ago, I was going to the east coast for a short family vacation. I flew out from Oakland to meet with my brother and mom in Dulles, VA (another Washington, DC airport) and went to stay with relatives. We got like no sleep, but had to board a 6 AM bus to New York to see my sister and her high school Economics Challenge team compete. They lost, partly due to the fact that one of their team members was an hour late and got disqualified (how and why I still have no idea, but apparently it was a frequent pattern). Well, it wasn’t a total defeat, as they got the all expenses paid trip to the city and $1,000 dollar savings bonds (quite the consolation prize). After she left, the rest of us went around the City and saw some sites like Chinatown (which my brother thought was a lot like the real thing with the people disobeying traffic lights, crowds of people, in audible taxi drivers, and garbage on the street), Rockfeller Center, and the former site of the World Trade Center. Yes, New York is filled with all sorts of sights, sounds, and smells (try stepping into that subway station that reeked of urine after smelling the horses near Central Park).

New York Skyline

So I got my internship at the web division of US News. I’ll be working in Washington, DC all summer in the Georgetown area.

So on Saturday, I’ll be flying to Dulles, VA near Washington, DC to visit some relatives. Sometime during the week, I’ll also be heading down to New York City to see my sister and the rest of her high school friends compete in the Economics Challenge competition.

Then back to DC to interview for a U.S. News and World Report Internship (they called today, I thought I applied too late). If I get it, I’ll be in DC for the summer. If not back, to Los Angeles for week then Berkeley again.