I finished a book tonight that would’ve been more fitting to finish on my last day of work and it was all I could really think about as I was walking home from the train doing one of those walking…
Category: A Day in the Life
Great Moments in Sports
Tonight I watched one of the most incredible Mariners games in recent history, with the M’s crushing the Angels 11-3 on a grand slam by Ichiro in his first game of 2009, alongside Griffey’s first homer at home for Seattle…
It’s Princeton!
Wanted to make the official announcement that Emily has chosen to return to Princeton University for two more years of academic rigor. We will become New Jersey residents sometime late this summer. Many more plans to be announced as they…
Reality Check
Statistics, 2002-2008 Domestic US Deaths by Firearm Homicide: over 80,000 Domestic US Deaths by Terrorism: 0 While people enjoy citing the fact that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed under the US Constitution (conveniently dropping…
Bubbles
We could live beside the ocean leave them far behind swim out past the breakers watch the world die. -Everclear, “Santa Monica” Russ and I went down (up? over? out? – I have no sense of direction in LA) to…
I Love LA
I could never imagine living in Southern California, but this region of the world has pretty much always served the same role for me. It’s basically the exact role in my life that it pitches to everyone everywhere at all…
2009 West Coast Farewell Tour Commences!
If you need me, I’ll be at Russ’ for the next nine days. If you’re David Kunkel, please respond to my e-mails because I’d really like to break the streak of years where we’ve just missed seeing each other. Possible…
The Sum of All Responses
Here’s your close-to-final score: 6.5/7 (+C, +H, /++O, +P, +Y) The / indicates a wait-listing from one of the one-year programs at Oxford, which technically isn’t even a full wait-listing so much as deferring consideration of the application into a…
Help Promote Making Fun of AIG!
This is the old straight-up appeal to the masses – if you’re involved in the Digg thing (or can easily sign up), please help us get our new AIG March Madness commercial (Youtube, previously posted about): Digg It! Also, the…
Emily Runs the Table
(+C, +H, ??+O, +P, +Y) Still waiting to hear from two Oxford programs, but Em applied to five schools and was admitted to five schools. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. Harvard surprised us with an earlier decision than expected,…