events.yml

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# The first event should be birth.
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"1975-09-19":
    - headline: "🐣 I was born"
      description: "I entered the world at around 9am in Brooklyn, New York, USA, the youngest of 4 by far, a happy accident. Thanks, Mom. Dad came to the hospital in a jacket and tie to meet me for the first time."
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "I was tiny"

"1980-09-01":
    - headline: "🖍️ Kindergarten"
      description: "Went to Tiny Tot Schoolhouse, where Miss Mary and Miss Nini were my teachers."
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Kindergartner"
      association: "Tiny Tot Schoolhouse"

"1981-09-01":
    - headline: "📓 Elementary school"
      description: "Went to Catholic school, with uniforms, nuns, mass, and all."
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Student"
      association: "St. E"

"1984-04-01":
    - headline: "🖥️ First computer"
      description: "Dad loved gadgets and was ahead of his time when he bought us an IBM PCjr. Wrote my first BASIC programs on that machine, played the Keyboard Adventure easter egg game, Kings Quest and Space Quest, and drew a pixelated Van Halen logo with A."

"1989-09-01":
    - headline: "📚 High school"
      description: "All girls Catholic high schoool, where my sister went."
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "High school student"
      association: "BKHS"

"1989-11-23":
    - headline: "🎫 First concert"
      description: "New Kids on the Block at Madison Square Garden. Whole school won tickets in an NYC radio contest by writing the most index cards of any other school in the 5 boroughs."

"1991-10-01":
    - headline: "💶 Europe"
      description: "My first time travelling outside of the US was a school trip to Europe: Italy, France, and England. Begged my parents to let me go on this trip instead of have a sweet sixteen party (blech)."

"1992-09-20":
    - headline: "🪪 Drivers license"
      description: "The day I passed my drivers test, my parents looked stricken."

"1993-09-02":
    - headline: "🏫 Left for college"
      based: "Poughkeepsie"
      doing: "College student"
      association: "Marist"
      description: "Went to Marist College thanks to a scholarship, a loan, Mom & Dad, and Metro-North."

"1993-09-15":
    - headline: "🖨️ Help desk"
      description: "Started an on-campus job at Marist's computer lab help desk, where I worked all 4 years. The lab ran mainframe terminals, OS/2 and DOS workstations. Printers jammed constantly. Earned minimum wage, $4.25/hour, and learned so much."

"1994-10-01":
    - headline: "🌎 Saw first webpage"
      description: "Around this time, I saw a webpage for the first time. A coworker in the computer lab showed me the Mosaic browser running on OS/2. Lightbulb moment."

"1995-10-03":
    - headline: "💔 Lost Dad"
      description: "Miss you every day."

"1996-10-01":
    - headline: "🌎 Made first webpages"
      description: "Around this time, I started making my own webpages in earnest, spending long nights in the lab office, a room of my own with a computer and a door."

"1997-03-21":
    - headline: "💝 First date with T"
      description: "She asked, thank goodness."

"1997-06-15":
    - headline: "🎓 Graduated college"
      description: "Bachelor of Arts in English, Creative Writing"
      doing: "Funemployed"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      association: ""

"1997-06-29":
    - headline: "🗽 NY Liberty"
      description: "Let's go Liberty! Best graduation gift ever from L: Inaugural season tickets for the WNBA's New York Liberty at Madison Square Garden."

"1997-07-01":
    - headline: "🏠 Moved home"

"1997-07-01":
    - headline: "🌅 West"
      description: "Took my first trip to the left coast with Mom & L. We visited Phoenix, Sedona, Yosemite, and San Francisco. This is when I knew I'd move west someday."

"1997-07-15":
    - headline: "🛗 Elevators"
      description: "First professional IT job at the elevator company where Dad and my brothers worked. Elevator control is a fascinating engineering and programming problem. Mostly learned networking and programming Java here."
      doing: "Working"
      association: "O. Thompson"

"1997-09-01":
    - headline: "📚 Grad school"
      description: "A computer science program for which this English major was missing most math prerequisites. Catchup was tough."
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Student"
      association: "CUNY"

"1999-06-15":
    - headline: "🎓 Graduated"
      description: "Master's of Science in Computer Information Systems"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Working"
      association: "O. Thompson"

"1999-10-15":
    - headline: "🛩️ Skydove, engaged"
      description: "T proposed and then we jumped out of an airplane. Not sure which was scarier."

"1999-12-31":
    - headline: "💥 Y2K"
      description: "We survived!"

"2000-01-01":
    - headline: "🏡 Left home"
      description: "Moved in with L, my first working-adult apartment."

"2000-03-01":
    - headline: "⚡️ Bolt"
      description: "First professional web developer job. Learned ASP, SQL, and PHP here but most importantly, met a lifelong friend."
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Working"
      association: "Bolt"

"2000-09-10":
    - headline: "🪴 Moved in with T"
      description: "Rented the garden apartment of a brownstone together."

"2001-06-02":
    - headline: "💍 Married T"
      description: "We wore matching dresses and Doc Martens. Our families recognized our marriage, the government did not."

"2001-09-11":
    - headline: "💔 9/11"
      description: "Rest in peace, C."

"2001-12-01":
    - headline: "👩‍💻 First blog"
      description: "Making a personal blog combined my love of writing and webdev in a magical way that set me on fire. I published and tinkered and redesigned obsessively. At first I used Blogger. Later, I built my own custom blogging system. Got to be part of the rich, awesome early-days NYC blogging scene and meet some of the greats who I'd go on to work with later."

"2001-12-16":
    - headline: "📸 First digital camera"
      description: "It was a Canon Powershot Digital Elph, maybe 3MP. I photographed everything all the time."

"2003-08-14":
    - headline: "🕯️ Blackout"
      description: "With the subways ground to a halt in the 2003 Northeast blackout, I walked home 8 miles across the bridge with N from the office in sandals. Ouch."

"2003-05-01":
    - headline: "🐝 Freelancing"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Freelancing"
      association: ""
      description: "Left Bolt to try my hand at contract work, at NetAid and later The Digital Journalist. Mostly I worked as a developer on Kinja with Meg, Mark & Nick of Gawker Media."

"2004-09-20":
    - headline: "🚁 Helicopter flight"
      description: "Celebrated my birthday in a helicopter above NYC."

"2005-01-30":
    - headline: "👩‍✈️ Lifehacker"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Working"
      association: "Lifehacker"
      description: "Started Lifehacker at Gawker with Nick and Choire coaching me on how to evolve from a personal blogger to a working media blogger."

"2005-08-23":
    - headline: "✈️ Piloted an airplane"
      description: "Took my first flying lesson with D in a little four-seater off Cape Cod. What a feeling."

"2005-09-01":
    - headline: "☀️ Moved to San Diego"
      based: "San Diego"
      doing: "Working"
      association: "Lifehacker"
      description: "Switched coasts, to T's hometown."

"2006-10-10":
    - headline: "📚 Published my book"
      description: "The Lifehacker book was published by Wiley. Over time, it went to 3 editions with a handful of translations, including Italian."

"2007-06-29":
    - headline: "📱 iPhone released"

"2008-02-22":
    - headline: "🇹🇭 Visited Thailand"
      description: "Saw The Beach, rode elephants, sailed in long-tail boats, and ate banh mi, with D&A."

"2008-06-17":
    - headline: "👩‍⚖️ Married legally"
      description: "When California legally recognized same-sex marriage, we got married again on the court steps in San Diego, along with countless other couples."

"2008-10-18":
    - headline: "🚴‍♂️ First triathlon"
      description: "San Diego super-sprint with T."

"2008-11-04":
    - headline: "🤬 Marriage ban"
      description: "Prop 8 passed in the California state elections, banning same-sex marriage. Existing marriages, including ours, were grandfathered in."

"2009-01-01":
    - headline: "👩‍💻 Left Lifehacker"
      doing: "Freelancing"
      association: ""
      description: "Handed over the editor-in-chief reigns to Adam, transitioned to weekly feature writer, and took on other media clients."

"2009-08-01":
    - headline: "🎙️ First podcast"
      description: "Launched This Week in Google, a podcast with Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis. Later, co-hosted All About Android with Jason Howell, In Beta with Kevin Purdy, and The Postlight Podcast/Catalyst."

"2009-08-20":
    - headline: "📈 Started ThinkUp"
      based: "San Diego"
      doing: "Working"
      association: "ThinkUp"
      description: "Pushed the first bit of code for a utility I called Twitalytic, which became ThinkUp, the company and open source software and community I built with Anil over the next 7 years."

"2010-01-15":
    - headline: "🐋 Submarine dive"
      description: "Got to be one of the first ever civilian bloggers to go out for a dive in a Los Angeles class fast attack Naval submarine out of San Diego."

"2011-06-02":
    - headline: "💍 Married 10 years"

"2011-06-15":
    - headline: "₿ Bitcoin"
      description: "Got my first Bitcoin by chance from a generous nerd when I attended a conference talk about some newfangled digital currency. He handed Bitcoins out at the end to anyone who was curious, and I was curious."

"2011-07-01":
    - headline: "🇨🇳 Visited China"
      description: "Toured Bejing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Suzhou with T & T."

"2012-09-18":
    - headline: "🐣 E born"
      description: "At last."

"2013-09-18":
    - headline: "👶 E turned 1"

"2013-12-30":
    - headline: "🥯 Back to Brooklyn"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      description: "A baby brings you closer to family. Co-founders like to work in the same city."

"2014-09-18":
    - headline: "👶 E turned 2"

"2015-05-15":
    - headline: "🛠️ Makerbase"
      description: "Launched ThinkUp LLC's second product, Makerbase, an IMDb for digital product creators. Fog Creek software acquired Makerbase the next year."

"2015-06-26":
    - headline: "🏳️‍🌈 Marriage legalized"
      description: "Same-sex marriage became legally recognized in all 50 states across the U.S. The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges that a fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by the Fourteenth Amendment, and that states must allow same-sex marriage."

"2015-08-04":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 White House"
      description: "Launched Makerbase at the White House at its first-ever Demo Day, hosted by President Obama on his birthday. We sang Happy Birthday to him in the East Wing."

"2015-09-18":
    - headline: "👶 E turned 3"

"2016-04-16":
    - headline: "🏢 Started at Postlight"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Working"
      association: "Postlight"
      description: "An agency, why not?"

"2016-06-13":
    - headline: "📉 Shut down ThinkUp"
      description: "The SaaS model didn't work. We refunded our subscribers with lots of sadness and gratitude."

"2016-09-18":
    - headline: "👶 E turned 4"

"2017-06-15":
    - headline: "🏢 Partner at Postlight"

"2017-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 5"

"2018-03-21":
    - headline: "🤩 Gillian tweet"
      description: "Gillian Anderson replied \"thank you, Gina\" to a fangirl tweet from me. Printed, framed, and hung on my wall."

"2018-07-26":
    - headline: "🪂 Paragliding"
      description: "Off the coast in San Diego, spectacular."

"2018-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 6"

"2019-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 7"

"2020-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 8"

"2020-03-15":
    - headline: "🦠 Covid-19"
      description: "Just a global pandemic."

"2020-03-30":
    - headline: "🦆 North Carolina"
      based: "North Carolina"
      description: "Pandemic NYC was scary, so we escaped to North Carolina and hunkered in the suburbs, near a beautiful pond with ducks. I spent a lot of time at that pond."

"2020-09-30":
    - headline: "🥯 Back to Brooklyn"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      description: "No place like home."

"2021-06-02":
    - headline: "💍 Married 20 years"

"2021-06-15":
    - headline: "👔 Became CEO"

"2021-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 9"

"2022-06-17":
    - headline: "💸 Sold Postlight"
      description: "After a long process, we sold the company to NTT DATA, the biggest IT services firm you've never heard of, the company that invented the emoji. 😃"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Working"
      association: "NTT DATA"

"2022-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 10"

"2022-12-28":
    - headline: "👩‍⚕️ Cancer"
      description: "Grateful to MSK for my successful treatment."

"2023-07-01":
    - headline: "🇮🇹 Sicily"
      description: "Whole fam-damily spent two weeks not far from Trapani, Sicily."

"2023-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 11"

"2024-07-17":
    - headline: "🧘‍♀️ Left NTT DATA"
      based: "Brooklyn"
      doing: "Funemployed"
      association: ""
      description: "Time for a break."

"2024-09-18":
    - headline: "👧 E turned 12"

"2024-10-20":
    - headline: "🏀 Liberty won!"
      description: "Got to see the NY Liberty win their first WNBA championship in person at Barclays Center. WE ALL WE GOT, WE ALL WE NEED."

"2025-02-05":
    - headline: "📍 Made this"
      description: "A lot of rest and reflection and space and time to explore led to finding Life in Weeks, copying it, and making it my own."

"2059-09-19":
    - headline: "☠️ Life expectancy"

"2075-09-19":
    - headline: "🥰 Hug T&E at the beach"

# Presidents
"1981-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 Reagan inaugurated"
"1989-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 GH Bush inaugurated"
"1993-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 Clinton inaugurated"
"2001-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 GW Bush inaugurated"
"2009-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 Obama inaugurated"
"2017-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 Cheeto inaugurated"
"2021-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 Biden inaugurated"
"2025-01-20":
    - headline: "🇺🇸 Cheeto inaugurated"