David J. Garcia

See San Francisco’s Chinatown. Our resident China expert (just back from a semester there teaching English) says it’s just like places she’s seen in China, except cleaner (even though it’s dirty by our standards).
Eat clam chowder on the wharf.
Drive down Lombard Street (the one with about nine switchbacks).
Watch the wild sea lions enjoy doing nothing.
Agree [...]

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It happened more frequently in Provo, but I’ve observed the phenomenon everywhere I’ve lived over the past couple of years: impromptu YouTube viewing parties, where groups of friends and family gather around to share their picks out of the site’s countless videos. Funny, bizarre, educational, entertaining, or uplifting—YouTube has it. And it seems that the [...]

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I’m now just a few days into three and a half weeks of travel that will take us all over California. From San Diego and L.A. to Fresno, San Jose, Modesto, and Sacramento, and several places in between, we’ll be sleeping in a different place every night or two. I will be back in L.A. [...]

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We went to San Diego on Thursday and Friday. I must admit that I like overnight trips much more than week-long ones. We didn’t do too much while we were there, but some of us did end up on a dock on the other side of the bay as fireworks were going off at SeaWorld. [...]

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Visited the Griffith Observatory and looked at the moon through a 125x telescope.
Entered the drawing for cheap, front-row Wicked tickets.
Browsed used CDs at Amoeba music.
Eaten at Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles.
Almost attended a recording of a CBS TV show (the people in front of us got in; we didn’t).
Spent a day in Laguna Hills.
Sat in traffic.
Gotten [...]

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Early last year, I did quite a bit of design, video, and PR work for a charter school in Utah.
At one point, I decided that I wanted to use a color photo of Abraham Lincoln for a design. After I discovered that there were no high-quality, legal options, I decided to create my own, based on [...]

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I’m in the process of adding photo gallery functionality to my website. Soon, you’ll be able to download the full 12 megapixel version of every photo you’ve ever wanted from me. Stay tuned for that.
In the mean time, some photos that I don’t mind sharing publically can be found at http://www.davidjgarcia.com/gallery2. You’re welcome to use them [...]

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This weekend was amazing. Right after work on Wednesday I dropped Colby off at LAX, then turned around and drove straight to Las Vegas. There I saw WALL-E (I had to miss it when the previous group went) and spent the night at my friend Dave’s house. Thursday through Saturday I spent having the best time [...]

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Deceptively decrepit on the outside, but warmly inviting on the in, my ghetto apartment let me feel at home amidst the turbulant noise and bustle of big-city Los Angeles. Every morning, the sun burst through our curtains, and the volume of the street’s ambient symphony would servicably increase, urging the transition from sleep and dreams [...]

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