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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)

@vanpelt

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FigureEight and Weights & Biases co-founder. Reared in #Iowa , big fan of creating things.

Mission, San Francisco
Joined April 2007
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
2 months
If you think OpenAI is cool, you’re gonna love my latest side project OpenUI. Tired of writing HTML by hand and remembering tailwind classes? Let OpenUI do it for you:
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
9 years
I wrote about all the horrible tech choices I've made as CTO of @CrowdFlower ! http://t.co/0tVYMtgowC
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
Really excited to be integrated with Hugging Face. If you're doing NLP and haven't used 🤗 you're missing out, it's such a powerful library.
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Hugging Face
4 years
You can now visualize Transformers training performance with a seamless @weights_biases integration. Compare hyperparameters, output metrics, and system stats like GPU utilization across your models! Step-by-step guide: Colab:
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
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@MatthewBerman Appreciate it! Feels really good to have so many people acknowledge my little side project 🥰. I’m working on some fine tuned models and new features, stay tuned 🥳
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
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Only 1 week away! Excited to invite you to Fully Connected 2024. Join top minds in the field to explore GenAI's real-world impact. See you on April 18th, SF!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
8 years
Excited to watch @texastacos & @jackshay demo CrowdFlower AI to big crowd at #MSDataScienceSummit
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
5 years
So excited to partner with @yanda and @dschol in our most recent round of funding Building developer tools for engineers I admire is my dream job, can't wait to see what we can build together!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
5 years
Excited to launch our first official product video!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
6 years
10 years in SF, this one felt the strongest. #earthquake #twitter
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
3 years
I'm an early adopter and still hacking! It helps when your roommate was @mojombo
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Julia Schottenstein
3 years
(1/4) The earliest adopters of Github are still doing amazing things! 1) @wycats 2) @ezmobius 3) @ivey 4) @evanphx 5) @vanpelt - founder of @weights_biases 6) @wayneeseguin 7) @brynary - founder of @codeclimate 8) @kevinclark 9) @technoweenie 10) @macournoyer
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
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I’m in Serbia visiting family and geeking out on the language. I soon head to Germany, called Nemačka here. This translates roughly to “Land of the Mutes” in Protoslavic. I’m imaging the original Slav’s trying to communicate, giving up, then telling stories about it 👌
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
10 years
Still remember hacking from coffee shops with @l2k ... ), feeling so fortunate to be a part of @CrowdFlower !
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 days
I’m in Vienna for ICLR this week, DM me if you’re around. Can’t wait for FC UK edition next week especially Tim from DeepMind’s talk!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
Just boarded my first flight since Covid started. My @Delta flight has all middle seats open, no crying, free sanitizing wet wipes... It’s like first class for a discounted coach price.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
Trained a neural network on @vanpelt : My dream is → of what you can get for a low fee. #huggingtweets
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
10 months
I'm excited to be working more closely with @danielgross and @natfriedman making the worlds best developer tools for ML 🥳
@danielgross
Daniel Gross
10 months
I have been an investor and user of W&B since iter1, and am thrilled to be leading a $50m round alongside @natfriedman :
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
3 years
Really excited to be announcing our collaboration with @NVIDIAAI !
@weights_biases
Weights & Biases
3 years
World-class ML requires managing both infrastructure & the models themselves. Today we’re excited to announce our integration with @NVIDIAAI ’s Base Command Platform, a hosted AI dev hub that gives enterprises instant access to state-of-the-art infra!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
5 years
I'm super excited for fastai v2. So cool to see @jeremyphoward and contributors taking the time to do it right.
@jeremyphoward
Jeremy Howard
5 years
Want to automatically track *all* hyperparams of your model while it's training, without writing *any* configuration code? Thanks to @GuggerSylvain , you can in fastai v2, with the new @weights_biases callback :)
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
8 years
Here's the human-in-the-loop code for @l2k 's #MSDataScienceSummit keynote!
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
8 years
Just came out of a Walgreens and a kid said to me "Must feel good to be rich". "Oh, I'm not rich" as I looked down at my LaCroix in shame.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
6 years
Excited to launch W&B! @l2k and I are still getting along after 10 years 🤩.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
5 years
We won a prize at PyTorch Summer Hackathon at Menlo Park! 🙌 @Devpost
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
5 years
@natfriedman @l2k So cool to see Github sharing such an exciting dataset with the NLP community. Can’t wait to see what we build!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
5 years
I'm excited we launched ML benchmarks to foster collaboration and progress!
@peteskomoroch
Pete Skomoroch
5 years
Kmnist Benchmark japanese handwriting recognition competition: $1000 in compute credits to the contributor of the highest validation accuracy by July 8. Kuzushiji-MNIST is a drop-in replacement for the MNIST dataset (28x28 grayscale, 70,000 images)
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
7 years
Me too...
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
10 years
Me: "Have you ever wanted a horse"? My Wife: "To eat"?
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
3 years
Can’t wait to demo W&B monitoring some impressive Nvidia hardware live!
@weights_biases
Weights & Biases
3 years
Don't miss our webinar this Thursday when we'll demonstrate the power of @NVIDIADC 's Base Command Platform x W&B. Live demo 🔥 We invite you to launch a sweep with co-founder Chris @vanpelt into Base Command & monitor the results live in W&B. 📍 RSVP:
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
9 years
After 8 years in San Francisco, riding Caltrain for the first time like a pro! http://t.co/KyecBITaKu
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
@l2k I’m unable to read this blog without hearing your voice in my head dictating it to me 🤩
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
7 years
"What do you call this, a fishing stick?" - Snez, asking about a decorative fishing rod.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
6 years
W&B is hosting a machine learning challenge to breath life into black and white photos: DM me if you want access to a Jupyter based IDE with a GPU.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
6 years
So excited to be working with OpenAI!
@l2k
Lukas Biewald
6 years
Why Experiment Tracking is Crucial to OpenAI
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
17 days
@togethercompute my little llama3 8b fine tuning job has been pending for 18 hours. Is there a status page or way to see queue depth? The suspense is killing me.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
8 years
So cool to see so many developers & use cases for machine learning in such a cool space @IBMWatson developer conference.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
For the record, http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis is the greatest JS graphing / visualization library ever.
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
@djdannywhite killing it in a packed house for his last San Francisco based #INDIESLASH http://t.co/RweMt4YZ
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
For anyone interested in DSLR film making, this is so cool: http://www.okii.net/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=FF-001, and it's opensource!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
7 years
Impressive production in Munich #IBMml
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
@moonpolysoft maybe some day @boundary will have elephantine data scaling issues... I suggest you start using Mongo & Node just in case.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
@stormtroper1721 @l2k @weights_biases Hey @stormtroper1721 I wrote most of that code and can help get to the bottom this. I'll try to make a simple script to reproduce. I opened an issue here: I'll post my findings and ping you if I don't see you on GH.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
7 years
Train AI is happening tomorrow! The calm before storm 😍 #TrainAI2017
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Universal beer http://t.co/IhqS3Uh5
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
@KirinDave and I are wearing our new Gunnar's today. It's a whole new world. http://t.co/Fx4bwmwi
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
7 years
Had a great time talking Covfefe and human in the loop at the Chat Bot Summit in Berlin!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
9 years
Haven't written in original tweet in months... This was the first place I thought to go after shaking in bed. Earthquake you guys!!!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
10 years
Just got my first #sprig meal delivered, horrified to find a tasty orange truffle eyeball in my curried carrots. http://t.co/NqszRoK6rs
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
Internal @CrowdFlower meetings off to a solid start in 2013. http://t.co/7gv72seV
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Snez gave me a quick trim last night... http://t.co/2dlu2Wwh
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
14 years
Hot SF time lapse with my newish camera... http://vimeo.com/10278790
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
Sage advice from wife: "When you wash your hair you look like a douche bag... Actually, not a d-bag, but a chicken trying to be a horse."
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
Δ @ The Fillmore!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
Exuding professionalism on the new @CrowdFlower team page: http://t.co/eLCNPJzWw1
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
9 years
Hey @Get_Headspace are you aware of a bug where you specify 10 minute sessions but get 15? http://t.co/6aQZ4VFref
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
15 years
I switched twitter clients a month ago and forgot to configure it to launch on boot... I'm back baby!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Just finished watching an Anthony Bourdin episode in bed... Closed my razor sharp MacBook Air on my nipple. Thought it worthy of sharing.
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
16 years
northbeach with defunkt and mizerany... BooyAh
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
14 years
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
9 years
Watching the Super Bowl at an Airport bar in Dallas... Managed to engineer my delayed flights layover perfectly.
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
14 years
Met a dude on Acid outside the show... told him I was the devil.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
@stormtroper1721 @l2k @weights_biases I just tried to reproduce and I have a very simple working script in the github issue: . Can you try to make a simple script that shows the behavior you're seeing and add it to the thread?
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
16 years
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
So serene with a stomach full of oysters at Tamales Bay http://t.co/rEHbCIRuTW
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
16 years
the class is going well so far... It's actually going slower than I expected. Time to spice it up with a song and dance after lunch.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
@resistredaction The utilization logic uses the psutil python library, specifically the cpu_percent function TLDR; if your current process uses multiple threads it can be greating than 100%:
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
1 year
@ayushthakur0 @TensorFlow Maybe its downloading weights for a tensorflow js demo?
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
Just uploaded Junkanoo from our Xmas trip to the Bahamas! http://vimeo.com/18332991
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Was just asked by a random hippie-looking character in Sabastopol: "Got any spare juana for the nugless?"... What does this mean?
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
1 month
@weights_biases @karibriski @nvidia Really looking forward to Kari's talk. I may just be making a guest experience in it 🥳
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
At the Fox Theater to see Lykke Li. This venue is amazing!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
15 years
"these people look like zombies, they are so pale" Snezana, while driving to the Seattle airport at 5:30AM
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Gorgeous views on our way to Machu Picchu today. We see the ruins tomorrow. @ Ciudad de Urubamba http://t.co/AMMyKGfx
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
2 months
@AllanCorrigall Got too much traffic 🤪. It’s fixed now.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Sunset on Treasure Island http://t.co/W6PWSwso
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
10 years
Descending through the clouds. Just landed in rainy Austin. @ Austin Bergstrom International Airport… http://t.co/hF4iBDyFi7
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
This guy is way too old school to get behind the NoSQL revolution... http://t.co/okedyRD
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
10 years
32 down, 78 to go...
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
@mojombo why not write an NL time parser, universal avatar, or Monit replacement... why not?
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Thunder and Lightning in San Francisco. This would be a very boring tweet if I was in the Midwest...
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
14 years
The fog cometh... http://campl.us/cB0
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
So excited to see Joseph Childress play to a packed house! @ Great American Music Hall http://t.co/6yrWkSmIbu
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
So proud of our new platform launch!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
2 months
@jjghsjfhehxjs It’s possible. Today it renders raw HTML into an iframe, and you can later convert that to React. To render React directly in the browser, we would need a bundling step. I’ve thought about it, and Vite can even run in the browser so it’s possible, just more complicated.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
Plotted last summers honeymoon using data stored on my iPhone http://yfrog.com/h3vx7jp with http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
14 years
I learned something new tonight... Me: "You raised Herbie Hancock from the grave", Jazz wedding pianist: "I hung out with him last weekend."
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
The new Google Maps app is blowing my mind.
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
@getaround 's on top of it. Already connected me with support!
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@vanpelt
Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
Also, thank you instagram for making this silly European urinal look more awesome http://t.co/z7Phj52e
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
4 years
@resistredaction We don't make any network connections in your training code, they happen in a separate process. Calls to wandb.log to write synchronously to disk by default. You can make those writes asynchrounous by adding `sync=False` to your wandb.log calls.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
@brendan642 it's no color post, but Eminem and Detroit are always worth a blog post in my mind ;)
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
15 years
Fuck you Ticket Master
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
10 years
OH: "There's nothing greater than waiting to see someone live for 3 years then seeing it". #firstcityfestival2014
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
14 years
I finally made it into Inc. magazine, just in time :) http://bit.ly/9fUp9k
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
13 years
@defunkt if you need me to spot you for the tax debt, I'm here for you... BTW's party at 455 Valencia tonight!
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
12 years
@KirinDave you know Apple is coming out with an electric car... You've changed.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
Few things are more depressing than an airport smoking lounge. One of those things is a 6 hour overnight layover.
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Chris Van Pelt (CVP)
11 years
Just read that today was the perihelion (earth is closest to the sun). SPF 35 was no match. My flesh radiates.
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