• November 08, 2007 A Day In The Life

    01:34pm by Lijen (Site)

    So as vDream is coming along slowly, but surely, I thought I’d take a second to talk a little about our day-to-day as rogue cafe-warriors developing this project.

    vDream is currently being developed by yours truly and my best friend/resident car aficionado Jason. Naveen Jain, the founder and CEO of Sparkart LLC (www.sparkart.com), is putting the food on our plates & and also guiding the project. Im the nerd, Jas (“Jas” is what I call him. Feel free to refer to him as “BAMF” or “Coolie”) is in charge of our car database.

    So the thing is, Jas & I don’t have an office. We’ll, that might be a little inaccurate. It’s more like we have about 25 different offices in San Francisco that we rents space in at the cost of about 2 cups of coffee a day, give or take a muffin. On any given day you might find us at Rockin’ Java in the Upper Haight, Dolores Park Cafe in the Mission, The Grove in the Marina, or Caffee Trieste in North Beach, but your best bet is probably in any one of the numerous Starbucks in the Financial District (no stalkers please). Today it’s Yali’s in Berkeley. I think theres a name for our kind. Wait, I think I have something bookmarked somewhere. There it is. “Bedouins” (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/11/BEDOUINS.TMP). I kinda like the tone of that. Neo-nomads.

    Anyways, its interesting the things you hear and the people you see everyday by just sitting in a cafe all day. Not that I’m an eavesdropper or anything, but yea, maybe I am just a little bit. I mean, you see a guy and a girl sitting awkwardly in the corner and you overhear something about food or relationships or the weather in between tracks of radiohead and you cant help to just mute your computer for a sec and catch a quick lesson on what NOT to do on a date right? It’s kinda fun in that way, everyday I have a new set of coworkers that I can spy on without them knowing. What could be better? Maybe neo-voyer would be a little more accurate.

    So I’ve never had a blog before. I’ve never been that interesting, but at least now I have something remotely interesting to write about. If the way I write is interesting or not, well thats another story. But you know what? I can always seduce you into reading my posts by posting more slick teasers of some vDream cars. This ones one of my favorites. I’ll also throw in a picture of Jas reading something that is apparently pretty mind boggling. It’s probably this blog post…

    P.S. RSS feed coming soon.

  • November 08, 2007

    At one of the starbucks I frequent, there’s always this one guy who sits at one of the couch seats, and does just that – sits there. Absolutely nothing else. Sometimes looks around a little… Sometimes falls asleep, but he’s there for like 3 hrs a day, just sitting/sleeping. I told Lij about it one time when he was elsewhere over gchat. Then when we were both there, we sat on the opposite couch facing the guy. I told him again over gchat. The bastard kept typing “oh crap, we made eye contact, he totally saw me, i can’t stop laughing.” Which of course in turn made me start to crack up. He eventually made eye contact with me as well. I felt like a total douche, but it was still funny. I don’t go to that starbucks as much anymore…

    - 01:45pm

    by Jason

  • November 08, 2007

    It’s also amazing how many people go on dates at starbucks. I always end up sitting next to a fledgling relationship there. It’s ALWAYS amusing to watch the awkwardness of those first-dates. It seems like usually the guy is the most nervous one. I’m sure I’d be the most awkward one there, though, if I was on a first date.

    - 01:47pm

    by Jason