Sachin Agarwal: May 2005

Stanford: Some pictures I took while Aki and I flyered campus for meepster.

The Roof: Pictures from the roof of my house in San Francisco. First there was a fire a few blocks away and we could see lots of smoke. The fire department put it out quickly. Then the same night there was a huge fireworks show put on by KFOG (all shots were handheld)

meepster

Post or buy something on meepster by May 31st and automatically get entered to win an iPod Shuffle! Why sell your books to a store for pennies on the dollar? Graduating and want to sell your lucky futon? Ready for a new bike? Do it all, quickly & easily @ http://meepster.stanford.edu.

what: a new way to post and buy things from other stanford students
why: su.market is kludgy - you can't easily search it and have no idea when something is sold
how much: free - now and forever
where: http://meepster.stanford.edu

Come check out meepster - a new take on online buying and selling by recent Stanford grads. Our goal was to simplify the online buying and selling process, while removing the high fees and awkward anonymity of some online trading sites. Give it a try, we promise you won't regret it. If you have feedback or questions, e-mail meepster@meepster.org.

Thanks,
The meepster Team

Post NAB partying: The first Apple beer bash after NAB. Started out at the beer bash, then we cleaned out the fridge in my office, then out to the balcony, then Los gatos for food and bars. After the bars closed we met some random guys and played poker. Very bizarre.

Indian birthday in SF: One of Josh's friends was having a birthday party for his sister. There was a lot of great music including a guy doing scratch guitar and loops, and tabla with modern and traditional songs.

Mother's Day 2005: I went to LA for Mother's Day. It was a lot of fun. We went to see an Indian show where there were some great singers. I also played my first round of golf ever!

My 25th birthday I celebrated my 25th birthday with a great dinner at Nikhil and Becca's house. We had yummy brownies for dessert. Thanks to Nikhil for the pictures!

SLO Added some new pictures from my last trip to SLO.

SF Added some new pictures of San Francisco (downtown and Bart)




Finally:

Scrubs is one of my favorite TV shows, and it's all done using Final Cut Pro. Brian (our product designer) was able to get me an autographed scrub from Scrubs! It has Zach Braff and all the other stars:

Introducing http://apps.isachin.com/ where you can get info on all non Apple projects I have been involved in, as well as some recommendations for other great products.

Currently my focus is on meepster.org which is a new online classifieds site Aki and I created that solve many of the issues we found in currently available systems. meepster is the easiest system we've seen, and has many powerful features not found elsewhere.

I've also started learning Cocoa, Apple's preferred development system. It provides lots and lots of built ins for free, so you can build applications very quickly. For example, I estimate I can build about 80% of what I did for Wimpus without writing a single line of code. I can probably re-write Wimpus in about 2 days (once I learn Cocoa).

My first project here is going to be an application called Balance, to help me balance my checkbook. Many more applications will follow. Stay tuned!

After NAB, everything is changing. I sort of thought it would, but it's still catching me by surprise and stressing me out a bit. There are changes at home, at work, in all aspects of my life.

One change is I'm really bored. Work has slowed down a lot so I have a lot of free time. This can be bad if you are bored and have too much time to think. I need to get out and do something good with my time. I was thinking about learning something new like an instrument (tabla) or Cocoa, but more and more I think I want to get involved in some sort of service group.

It's strange to think about this now, but Phi Psi really was a great way to keep busy and involved. You can put as much or as little into a fraternity as you want, and the more you put in, the more you get out of it. I put a lot of time into Phi Psi. I planned tons of activites (social and community service) and I was always an officer. I really miss that and I want to get back into it.

I found a list of service groups in the Bay Area but how do you know which are good? I don't really know of anyone who is in any of these groups. Anyone have any suggestions?

Another big change is I'm going to stop drinking. The past couple of weeks (Vegas, etc) have been a little too alcoholic. I think I'm sorta growing out of it (yeah, I'm getting old). So for now I'm going to try to drink nothing (ZERO) and see how long I can last. It's to test my will power (I'm sure it will be hard when i'm out with a bunch of friends).

No more of these :)