Things I want to do or organize

Summary

A running list of things that sound fun to do but require a medium-to-high amount of effort to plan. If you want to participate in any of these, contact me!

planning in progress

biking across the golden gate bridge

Possible route below, yoinked from this guide.

Opensauce Exhibition

Details: https://opensauce.com/exhibit-application/

• Make something really cool and silly to show off at next year’s opensauce.
• Most likely something hardware related (or maybe a game? or both?)
• Now soliciting wacky ideas.
• TODO: assemble the PCB badges from this year
  • find the partlist
  • buy parts
  • find time to run a mini-workshop

Buy-in: crew assembled, plans in motion. hop on the train we’re goin places!!

Yosemite

This is a recurring event that will hopefully happen ~1x a year.

Inspiration:

• Free Solo (2018). lol jk. unless?
• The macOS X 10 default wallpaper.
• Continued possession of the ability to rebut anyone who unironically “V1 in my gym“‘s by falling off every V0 at Camp 4.

Details: Yosemite trip template

• Bonus: go to Bishop or Red Rocks at some point

Buy-in: always in high demand. contact me to join the list!

making music in general

idk what this will look like exactly yet, but if anyone wants to jam lmk!

flower piano

https://gggp.org/flowerpiano/

Every year in ~September, Golden Gate Park transforms into a public concert hall. It would be fun to perform there!

aspirational

eclipse chasing

My former astronomy professor Alex Fillipenko has seen nearly 20 eclipses and considers each one a life-changing experience. He also tells us that he’ll retroactively fail us if we have the opportunity to see one and choose not to.

The next easily viewable eclipse will be on August 12, 2026 from Iceland or Northern Spain. I intend to be there if I can!

The next easiest opportunity after that will be on July 22, 2028 from Australia.

fancy dinner parties

Getting a bunch of great people together and making great food for them is one of the most immediately rewarding ways to spend time with others. also who says no to free food?

1. finish compiling recipes and put them on the garden at some point.
2. write up some full menu drafts and ingredient sourcing lists.

train retreat

Inspiration:

• the scenic route, a blog post by Jasmine Sun about doing exactly this
• I’ve done SJ→Seattle, Seattle→Vancouver, and SJ→LA on Amtrak. Some of my best and most memorable in-transit experiences so far.

Details: Amtrak from San Jose Diridon to either Seattle/Vancouver or Denver. Stay a couple days at the destination, fly back.

Buy-in: find a group of people who:

• likes trains
• are excited by the idea of sitting in one for 24+ hours with no internet
• have an infinite backlog of things to read/write/think about deeply

Run an ARG/treasure hunt

Inspiration:

• Jet Lag: The Game
• Alternate reality game: Wikipedia
• A friend hosted a scavenger hunt in SF (2025/04) and it was so much fun + really well organized! Alamo Square → Ocean Beach, ~8 miles walking/running over 3 hours.
  • Could build a slightly larger-scale game in a few ways
    • Allow bikes/transit. Make it advantageous to have local knowledge on how to most efficiently get from point A to point B.
    • Have some form of interaction between teams (like challenges, CTF-style things, sabotage)
    • if ARG-style, can have it go over multiple days with no time pressure.

Buy-in: looking for organizers (and time).

bike across the netherlands

https://www.holland-cycling.com/

Inspiration:

• I’ve done chunks of this (namely Aachen → Maastricht → Roermond) and would like to do the whole thing at some point.
• Best country to bike around by a long shot. Nothing even comes close.

Details: 500+ km of (very flat lol) cycling from one side of the Netherlands to the other.

• Amsterdam to Maastricht via Rotterdam/Maasfietsroute
  • https://www.holland-cycling.com/where-to-go/long-distance-cycle-routes/national-long-distance-cycle-network/maas-cycle-route-maasfietsroute
• Rent the fanciest Swapfiets ebike. €74.90. https://swapfiets.nl/en-NL/ebikes
• Take the train back to Amsterdam at the end.

Buy-in: anyone willing to fly to Amsterdam and spend an entire week riding a bike

hiking/backpacking in big sur

or surfing, or camping. to be decided!

computational art

multimodal creativity through computers and the internet.

List of inspiration, people, and orgs to track:

• If, then
• Gray Area
• Spencer Chang

run a marathon

will be missing the sf marathon this year, but hope to run one at some point in my life.

• need to train more seriously:

  • 1mi average / day

  • if i can run like 10mi without dying then i’ll feel pretty good about it