February 2008
20 posts
Travel and memories
Booked my flight to Amsterdam on Feb 21. It’s been far too long since I’ve been backpacking around Europe so I’m excited, even if this is just for the weekend. It will be almost 3 years since I was last in Amsterdam, which is weird because it feels like last year. My life was completely different back then, as I had just moved to Madrid about 6 months prior. I must say, there is...
January 2008
17 posts
Myke: Cloned milk and cow meat in grocery stores in 3 years
Myke: FDA approved
Myke: they don't even need to be marked as clone/non-clone
Me: Note to self: move out of country in 3 years.
Apple senior execs get bonuses, Jobs still at $1 Why does the media continue to report on CEOs taking $1 salaries? Is Steve Jobs really sacrificing by only taking millions in stock options (adding to the billions he already has)? Are we supposed to feel closer to Steve because he’s taken a “vow of poverty” and slumming it like the corner kids? Maybe it was cute at first, but now...
Eric: i'm fighting an infinite loop i somehow managed to write
Nate: that sounds like a sci-fi movie plot
Wow.
I went to see Kite Runner knowing little about the story; I had never read the book and I didn’t read any synopses or reviews of the film. I was actually expecting a cute story directed at children — after all, the book was featured at Starbucks. Welp, I was way off. It was one of the most emotional films I’ve ever seen, a roller-coaster in which you start out hating the...
A letter to a friend
I wouldn’t normally publish an e-mail on a public site, but I wrote the following to a friend this evening and it hit me that too frequently we forget to thank those that impact our lives. So, hopefully I can use this as a reminder to write such letters more often in the future. Re: Happy New Year Happy new year, Ian! Huge congrats to Zoe, and I’d be surprised if Harvard doesn’t...
