Today, I got to check off something on my bucket list. I visited the headquarters of Cloudflare and got to see the lava lamp wall that is partially responsible for encrypting 25% of the traffic on the Internet. They use images of the wall to generate truly random numbers that are used in the encryption […]
Author: willwandering
San Francisco – Dec 28, 2023
Today was a pretty fun day. I started the day off by riding the Powell & Hyde Cable Car from the Hyde St & Beach St stop to the Powell St & Market St stop and back again. Both stations were the end of the line and they used a hand operated turntable to change […]
San Francisco – Dec 27, 2023
I covered quite a bit of ground today. On top of the buses, etc. I ended up walking about 13 miles. It was worth it though because I got to see a lot of things. I was able to visit Chinatown, Coit Tower, the Ferry Building, Painted Ladies, the Japanese Tea Garden in the Golden […]
San Francisco – Dec 26, 2023
Today, I traveled to San Francisco from Baltimore International Airport (BWI). My first flight was to Charlotte (CLT) and then I caught a second flight from Charlotte to San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The day started pretty smoothly with fairly low crowds and no wait at all to get through security at BWI. Things changed […]