Posted on Thursday 2008.07.24 at 2:19 am in
schoolBy Ryan McElroy
My Amazon manager keeps asking me if I’ve changed my mind about grad school. But I haven’t, of course. For what can Amazon do to compare to these classes that are looking particularly interesting?
CSE 490H (3) — Distributed Systems (Ed Lazowska)
CSE 505 (3) — Programming Language Concepts (Dan Grossman)
CSE 564 (3) — Security and Privacy (Tadayoshi Kohno)
CSE 573 (3) — Artificial Intelligence I (Dan Weld)
CSE 519 (1) — CSE Current Research
CSE 520 (1) — CSE Colloquium
I think I’m expected to pair that down to 3 “real” courses. Ha!
By Ryan McElroy
The results!
| Place |
647 |
740 |
756 |
| Name |
Luis Balanzategui |
Ryan McElroy |
Kunlun Ouyang |
| Age |
26 |
25 |
25 |
| Sex |
M |
M |
M |
| Overall Time |
1:29:28 |
1:31:57 |
1:32:15 |
| Div Place |
54 |
56 |
57 |
| Swim Time |
0:14:42 |
0:16:54 |
0:14:57 |
| Place |
374 |
738 |
408 |
| Bike Tran Time |
3:22 |
2:34 |
4:27 |
| Bike Time |
0:40:29 |
0:39:08 |
0:42:43 |
| Place |
642 |
504 |
873 |
| Run Tran Time |
1:42 |
1:25 |
2:17 |
| Overall Pl After Bike |
534 |
515 |
791 |
| Run Time |
0:29:13 |
0:31:55 |
0:27:50 |
| Place |
961 |
1177 |
815 |
| City & State |
Mill Creek, WA |
Bellevue, WA |
Seattle, WA |
By Ryan McElroy
Overall
Trip Distance: 206.8 miles
Riding Time: 13:05 hours:minutes
Average Speed: 15.8 miles per hour
Max Speed: 38.7 miles per hour
First Day
Start Location: E1 Montlake Parking Lot, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Riding Time: 9:46 hours:minutes
Riding Distance: 152.5 miles
Average Speed: 15.6 miles per hour
Stop location: Longview, WA (Many Thanks to Quincy!)
Second Day
Riding Time: 3:01 hours:minutes
Riding Distance: 54.3 miles
Average Speed: 17.96 miles per hour
Stop location: Holladay Park (sp?), outside the Llyod Center, Portland, OR
By Ryan McElroy
This weekend: Family Reunion, Independence Day, Fireworks
Next weekend: Seattle to Portland bike ride
Third weekend: Seafair triathlon
In the meantime: Biking to work, swimming in a wetsuit, running around Greenlake
Posted on Tuesday 2008.06.24 at 12:35 pm in
workBy Ryan McElroy
More than a million things to learn. Exciting and overwhelming!
Posted on Sunday 2008.06.22 at 10:30 pm in
workBy Ryan McElroy
Tomorrow is my first day at Amazon.com and my first day at a new job in over four years. As always with a new job, there is a bit of trepidation, but there is also a good bit of excitement about the new opportunities and challenges that I’ll encounter.
Orientation starts at 10:00am.
Posted on Saturday 2008.06.21 at 12:02 pm in
recreationBy Ryan McElroy
Yesterday: 50-mile bike ride with Theo. From my place to Marymoor down to I-90, across the bridge, and back. The ride left me destroyed; I really have a long ways to go before STP.
Thursday: 35-mile bike ride with Theo, tooling around Seattle and checking out Amazon.com’s headquarters. I start Monday!
Wednesday: Worked out with Kunlun at the IMA. My muscles were still sore from last time; he certainly is causing something to happen :-)
Tuesday: Worked out with Kunlun at the IMA. Lots of upper-body exercises followed by swimming lessons. I already know how to swim, but apparently there’s a lot to be said for good form as well. My hair was so long that it covered my eyes when swimming properly, so I got it cut.