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I’ve poured a lot of time and money into this house, but it’s that time again.

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I finally took the time to scan in the bulk of the remainder of my obsessively collected movie ticket stubs. Thankfully my scanner can detect multiple items and automatically splits the images apart. I added about 75 or so scans of movie tickets to my “Scanned Tickets” set on Flickr, as well as two concert tickets that will forever be burnt into my mind. Weezer’s comeback concert at the 9:30 Club after being dormant for many years, and Phish @ Meriweather when Don and I drove to and from all the way from JMU almost passing out countless times while driving on the way back.

These tickets date all the way back to 1997, when I was still in highschool and saw an average of a movie a week, and usually paid for none of them. The recent scans also reveal movies I’m embarrassed to have seen like Dude, Where’s My Car?, the worst movie ever made Deep Impact, and Rob Schneider’s Deuce Bigalow. Anyways, this archival process is mostly for me, but you might find it interesting…

Scanned Tickets Set on Flickr.

On Vimeo

After editing this video together, I realized that I’m not even in it. Think of it as supplementary to Dave’s video - his video proves I was really there!  And as a side-note, I’m kinda disappointed with iMovie 08’s lack of video editing.  Apparently that’s going to be addressed in future updates.

Dave just compiled a video of our trip to San Fran from a few months ago. Beware, it’s random, strange, extreme and contains a lot of slow motion videos! I guess that’s what happens when you get together with your old band from college. I can’t wait to get out there again soon. (on Vimeo)

Yesterday was my last day at AOL. After interning for two summers, more than five years as a full-timer and many dodged rounds of layoffs, I have decided to move onto the next step in my career. There are many reasons why I should stay at AOL, but there are some that make it necessary to leave. I owe a lot if not all of my development to AOL - after all it was my first job right out of college. I didn’t think that my last two weeks would be that difficult, but I have started to realize how many people I have worked and become friends with over the years.

My next company is a small ~130 person company in Rockville, MD called InvestorPlace Media. I’m not too excited about having 495 and 270 in my commute, but I am really excited about the level of responsibility and potential for influence that I can have. I will be expanding on some of my natural curiosity of internet as a Web Analyst, analyzing traffic trends and hopefully maximizing nerdy buzz words for them like ROI, Page Views and Unique Visitors. There is much to learn about web analytics, so currently I have my nose buried in Avinash Kaushik’s excellent and extremely thorough book Web Analytics: An Hour a Day. I saw him speak when he came to AOL, and that definitely piqued my interest in the subject.I’ll miss all the good times, beer bashes, team outtings, the gym, bowling, but mostly the people. It has been an extremely tough choice for me to leave, and it may end up being a great decision or a terrible decision, but I won’t know until I try…

For those of you who have just met my Grandpa, I’m sorry to tell you that he passed away at the age of 96. He was a great man who is partially responsible for bringing over our family from China in the early 1900’s and faced all the challenges and hardships of immigrating to the United States to provide a better lifestyle for his future generations.

I am in charge of compiling a collage of images of him for the services this week. I am lucky enough to be able to go through all their photo albums through the years and find great pictures of my grandparents and family members having fun times with him through the years. The one above is one of my favorites of the 100 or so that I scanned tonight. It’s a picture of him at Dulles Airport. He is wearing a suit, vest and tie, because that’s just how he dressed. He would wear suits, or at the very least, dress pants and a button down shirt and a sweater almost all the time. My grandmother is in the foreground. I’ll miss him.

Scanned Pictures of Grandparents Set on Flickr. Any comments, send them here.

It has been a while since I’ve posted a video to Vimeo. I still have yet to mess around with iMovie long enough to feel comfortable editing together some videos from San Francisco and ones of my Grandma teaching us how to make some Chinese dumplings and pastries.

This video was taken last Christmas (2006). My grandfather has a tradition of “feeding” my great grandparents whenever there’s a family get together during the holidays. It usually involves chicken, oranges, whiskey and burning incense. In this clip my grandfather on my mom’s side tells us the names of my great grandparents.