Angel Martinez

I’ve never been big on new years resolutions, but this year I decided to change things up. Starting tonight, I will be launching a blog called ‘A Person A Day: NYC’. The idea is to meet one new person everyday, and blog about the interaction. This idea stemmed from a mix of “resolutions”: 

-blog once a day

-meet new people

-get used to uncomfortable/awkward situations

But it doesn’t end there. My friend Kevin and I started ‘Some People A Day’, with the hope to get this idea started in other cities. Starting in February, we will launch ‘A Person A Day: Cambridge’ (Kevin goes to MIT). 

We hope to get people motivated to get out there and take advantage of all of the kickass people in their city. So if you’re shy or lonely, get out there and start meeting people. We sure will!

Check it out!
A Person A Day: NYC 
Some People A Day

Here is a list of some of the things I did this year (not in any sort of order)!

- Took a graduate course at Columbia

- Volunteered at the World Science Festival

- Spoke to Brian Greene (2x)

- Took an IQ test and scored average (meh)

- Started teaching myself Python

- Attended a bible study group session (lulz-not really religious)

- Hung out with a PhD student who’s studying Theoretical Physics with Brian Greene at Columbia (interesting lessons learned)

- Started this site

- Joined Twitter (follow me @parkerforprez!)

- Walked from Grand Central to 86^th and Lexington in the freezing rain…without an umbrella (I will probably never do this EVER again)

- Decided to not return to school (legen- wait for it…)

- Decided to become an entrepreneur (DARY!)

- Read (most) of ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson

- Realized I’m not as smart as I think

- Visited Foursquare HQ and got tons of cool pin badges…also met with Erin Gleason, who’s pretty awesome (hell yeah!)

- Fell in love with electronic music (again)

- Bought a book on Quantum Field Theory for 7 bucks (steal)

- Applied to Hungry Academy (wish me luck!)

- Ate sushi for the first time (don’t judge)

- Survived the end of the world…both of them (May 21 and Oct 21, 2011)

- Finished 4 seasons of How I Met Your Mother

- Spotted Samuel L. Jackson (funny story)

- Visited Yipit HQ (also chatted with the CEO, Vin)

- Ate ramen with Trevor Owens

- Had a dream that Fred Wilson wrote me a blank check (lulz)

- Listened to Levels by Avicii WAY too many times

- Served Jury Duty (very interesting experience)

- Visited the IBM THINKexhibit

- Checked out the Wired Store in Times Square (some cool stuff in there)

- Finally got a pair of Ray Bans glasses

- Witnessed a UFO…true story (October 21, 2011)

- Got my DNA sequenced

- Took a picture with Neil deGrasse Tyson

- Got/still getting awesome advice from Tristan Walker (hell yeah!!!)

- Found out two shots of Tequila costs 26 bucks at The Coffee Shop! (#overpriced)

- Visited Zuccotti Park to witness OCW…right after I got off the ferry from visiting Goldman Sachs’ Jersey City office (tool much?)

- Attended a college ballroom competition (cute girls and tons of good laughs)

-  Agreed to be a witness for a marriage of complete strangers (another bizarre story)

- Passed out in the lobby of a hotel near Grand Central (yes, that happened)

- Survived an earthquake

- Finished watching Breaking Bad (badass show)

What a year…

hackedy:

hey you:

import datetime
def isitchristmas():
    today = datetime.date.today()
    return today.month == 12 and today.day == 25

if isitchristmas():
    print "Merry Christmas!"

So I’ve decided to spend my precious free time (yeah, right) to learn how to build dynamic webpages! I’ll be posting all of my notes so anyone can use them.

Here is some information on the course:

Link: http://academicearth.org/courses/building-dynamic-websites

Professor: David Malan

Course Description:

Today’s websites are increasingly dynamic. Pages are no longer static HTML files but instead generated by scripts and database calls. User interfaces are more seamless, with technologies likeAjax replacing traditional page reloads. This course teaches students how to build dynamic websites with Ajax and with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP), one of today’s most popular frameworks. Students learn how to set up domain names with DNS, how to structure pages with XHTML and CSS, how to program in JavaScript and PHP, how to configure Apache and MySQL, how to design andquery databases with SQL, how to use Ajax with both XML and JSON, and how to build mashups. The course explores issues of security, scalability, and cross-browser support and also discusses enterprise-level deployments of websites, including third-party hosting, virtualization, colocation in data centers, firewalling, and load-balancing.

Ready to kick some ass? OH HELL YEAH