L. David Baron

• Places:
  1. Devon Elementary School (1985-1991)
  2. Tredyffrin-Easttown Intermediate School (1991-1994) (thoughts on the middle school concept)
  3. Conestoga High School (1994-1998)
  4. Harvard (September 1998 - January 2003) (Canaday Hall, Eliot House. Initially Physics major, but switched to Computer Science at the beginning of my third year, also considered Economics and EPS (Atmospheric Science). Harvard Glee Club.)
  5. Mozilla
     • November 2003-December 2011: Mountain View, California
     • January 2012-December 2017: San Francisco, California
     • January 2018-August 2020: Mountain View, California
  6. Google (March 2021-present)

Maps

Map of places I've visited

States I've visited (as of August 2023)

AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, HI, IL, IN, MD, MA, MN, MO, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, (and for transit only, RI, NC, GA)

Countries I've visited (as of end of 2019)

United States, Canada, France, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom, Japan, China, Spain, New Zealand, Argentina, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, Italy, Vatican City, Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, Monaco, Iceland (and, for transit only, Finland)

Places I've flown (as of September 2021, with many repetitions of flights from my childhood not included)

Unsure of flights prior to 1988

Flights in 1988 (slightly unsure)

Flights in 1989 (unsure)

Flights in 1994

• New airports: CLT, CHS

Flights in 1998 (slightly unsure)

• New airports: MCO, BOS?

Flights in 1999

• New airports: none

Flights in 2000 (7287 mi)

• New airports: PVD, MDW, SFO

Flights in 2001 (14639 mi)

• New airports: PHX

Flights in 2002 (12499 mi)

• New airports: CDG

Flights in 2003 (23417 mi)

• New airports: DEN, OAK, IAD, ORD, OSL, SJC, SAN

Flights in 2004 (22374 mi)

• New airports: LHR, NCE, JFK

Flights in 2005 (44396 mi)

• New airports: AMS, CPH, YUL

Flights in 2006 (58972 mi)

• New airports: SYD, EDI, NRT

Flights in 2007 (28964 mi)

• New airports: YYC, PEK, DFW, IND, HHH, SAV

Flights in 2008 (45670 mi)

• New airports: SEA, YVR, DCA

Flights in 2009 (50995 mi)

• New airports: AUS, JAX

Flights in 2010 (43770 mi)

• New airports: ABQ, ZRH, LYS

Flights in 2011 (56389 mi)

• New airports: LAS, BCN, BIO, MAD, KIX, YYZ, AKL

Flights in 2012 (69981 mi)

• New airports: EZE, HAM, FRA

Flights in 2013 (83796 mi)

• New airports: TUS, TPE, TSA, HND, HKG

Flights in 2014 (61073 mi)

• New airports: ICN, FCO, PDX

Flights in 2015 (87560 mi)

• New airports: GBZ, MUC, TXL, CTS

Flights in 2016 (110383 mi)

• New airports: MEL, ZQN, IVC, SZS, CHC, ARN, DUB, LIS, KOA

Flights in 2017 (62559 mi)

• New airports: none

Flights in 2018 (83311 mi)

• New airports: HEL, WUH

Flights in 2019 (63043 mi)

• New airports: YQB, KEF, FUK

Flights in 2020 (30123 mi, last flight on March 6)

• New airports: LCG, WLG

Flights in 2021 (2442 mi)

• New airports: none

Flights in 2022: none

• New airports: none

Flights in 2023 (19387 mi)

• New airports: BWI

Flights in 2024 (as of February 17)

• New airports: none

Continents visited

Total continents visited: 5 (North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, South America)

Most continents visited in a calendar year: 4 (2006, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2018)

Most continents visited in a calendar quarter: 4 (2016-Q1, 2018-Q2)

Most continents visited in a calendar month: 3 (2006-02, 2011-05, 2016-03, 2016-07, 2018-04)

Earthquakes

Earthquakes I've felt:

• 2007-10-31 Alum Rock Earthquake, in Palo Alto, CA
• 2011-08-23 Virginia earthquake, in Berwyn, PA (17:51 UTC or 13:51 local time; an MW 5.8 earthquake with epicenter at 37.910°N 77.936°W)
• 2012-03-04 Hayward Fault earthquake, in San Francisco, CA
• 2014-03-17 earthquake east of Hualien, Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan (21:13 local time, 13:13 UTC) (USGS page)
• 2014-03-19 earthquake east of Hualien, Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan (20:20 local time, 12:20 UTC) (USGS page)
• 2014-08-24 earthquake in Napa County (03:20 local time, 10:20 UTC), in San Francisco, CA
• 2015-11-11 earthquake east of Yilan, Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan (23:33 local time, 15:33 UTC); a ML 5.4 earthquake with epicenter at 24.43°N 122.77°E (USGS page, M5.0, 24.565°N, 122.771°E)
• 2016-03-06 earthquake in Yilan, Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan (02:11 local time, 18:11 UTC on the 5th); a ML 4.5 earthquake with epicenter at 24.79°N 121.71°E (USGS page??)
• 2016-11-12 earthquake in Taiwan, 6:26am local time (22:26 UTC on the 11th): CWB page (ML5.1 with epicenter at 24.67°N 122.25°E), USGS page (M4.9, 24.056°N 122.520°E)
• 2018-01-04 Berkeley (Hayward Fault) earthquake, in Palo Alto, CA (2:40 local time, 10:40 UTC); a MW 4.4 earthquake with epicenter at 37.861°N 122.242°W
• 2019-01-16 Piedmont, CA (Hayward Fault) Earthquake in Palo Alto, CA (4:42 local time, 12:42 UTC); a ML3.7 earthquake with epicenter at 37.853°N 122.234°W, 11.7km depth

Earthquakes I've been told I should have felt, but didn't:

• 1994-01-15 Wyomissing Hills earthquake, at a party, probably in Merion, PA
• 2004-09-28 Parkfield earthquake, driving on 101 between Palo Alto, CA and Mountain View, CA
• 2024-01-02 Rockville earthquake (M2.3), asleep

World Heritage Sites

UNESCO World heritage sites I've visited:

• #72: Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek (Glacier Bay)
• #75: Grand Canyon National Park
• #78: Independence Hall
• #81: Chartres Cathedral
• #83: Palace and Park of Versailles
• #91: Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
• #160: Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
• #166: Sydney Opera House
• #174: Historic Centre of Florence
• #175: Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (Jardin de Boboli)
• #229: Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy
• #263: Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
• #267: Old City of Berne
• #272: Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• #286: Vatican City
• #300: Historic District of Old Québec
• #304: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Banff)
• #307: Statue of Liberty (from the outside)
• #308: Yosemite National Park
• #313: Historic Centre of Cordoba
• #314: Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
• #320: Works of Antoni Gaudí (La Sagrada Familia, Parque Güell)
• #409: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
• #421: Tongariro National Park
• #426: Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church (Westminster Abbey)
• #438: The Great Wall (Juyongguan)
• #439: Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang (Beijing)
• #442: Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
• #488: Tower of London
• #495: Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt
• #532: Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (at Park Sanssouci)
• #551: Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand (Kepler Track)
• #559: Royal Domain of Drottningholm
• #600: Paris, Banks of the Seine
• #659: Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
• #688: Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)
• #717: Historic Centre of Siena
• #728: Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
• #738: Jongmyo Shrine
• #795: Maritime Greenwich
• #816: Changdeokgung Palace Complex
• #817: Hwaseong Fortress
• #872: Historic Site of Lyon
• #880: Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
• #881: Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
• #896: Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
• #913: Shrines and Temples of Nikko
• #933: The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
• #1084: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• #1152: Þingvellir National Park
• #1158: Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia (Tarquinia)
• #1211: Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli (Palazzo Reale, Via Balbi, 10)
• #1306: Australian Convict Sites (Hyde Park Barracks)
• #1312: Tower of Hercules
• #1319: Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty (Donggureung Cluster)
• #1349: Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
• #1496: The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Guggenheim Museum)

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