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Obama is Friggin Adorable

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:35:20 +0900

I love the White House photostream. What a photogenic man.

Noam Chomsky at the San Francisco UU Church

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:50:16 +0900

Noam Chomsky at the San Francisco UU Church:

Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 1:00 to 2:30 pm First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco 1187 Franklin Street, corner Geary, San Francisco Doors open at 12:30 pm Professor Noam Chomsky, noted…

Noam Chomsky at the San Francisco UU Church

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:36:09 +0900

Noam Chomsky at the San Francisco UU Church:

Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 1:00 to 2:30 pm
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
1187 Franklin Street, corner Geary, San Francisco
Doors open at 12:30 pm

Professor Noam…

Japan's 74-Year-Old Bodybuilder

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:49:11 +0900

Japan's 74-Year-Old Bodybuilder:

(via 不良外人)

English, Wonderfully Remixed

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:57:28 +0900

English, Wonderfully Remixed :

This is a little off-topic for Arudou Debito, the outspoken Japanese foreigner-rights advocate, but it’s wonderful nonetheless. My fave? “sarchasm,” for sure. Not only does it describe…

Katie Couric Wins My Heart

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:58:06 +0900

Katie Couric Wins My Heart:

This is such a delicious piece of video. I wish words would come around and bite the punditocracy more often.

The Best Explanation of Survivorship Bias I've Read

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:36:37 +0900

The Best Explanation of Survivorship Bias I've Read:

Get a list of email addresses of people interested in sports betting. Say you have 32,000. Email 16,000 of them to say that the home team will win this week’s big team, and 16,000 to say the home…

Speakeasy Blues House Party

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:46:40 +0900

Speakeasy Blues House Party:

Dancers know how to party. A few of the big people in Portland’s burgeoning blues dance scene moved into a new house with nice, big hardwood floors, and decided to make their housewarming an…

College Cooking

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:48:27 +0900

College Cooking:

The last month has easily been the longest I’ve ever cooked for myself, and it’s been great. Being free of the overpriced college cafeteria has given me a lot of leeway to make good food. A few…

Celebrating Portland's New TriMet Line

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:36:22 +0900

Celebrating Portland's New TriMet Line:

Portland had a big party Saturday in Pioneer Square, celebrating the new TriMet Green Line. They had a great music lineup, including a better-than-expected trip-hop girl (first video), and rocking…

Help a Wounded Soldier Get Through the Day

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:11:04 +0900

Help a Wounded Soldier Get Through the Day:

I just got a mail from a friend, forwarding an email from some soldiers at a hospital somewhere in central Asia. Here’s the basic jist of it:

I was talking to our docs about conditions for our…

Microshack

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:02:24 +0900

Microshack:

I’ve discovered that there are some things too long or content-ful for twitter, but too undeveloped or random for this blog. These are going to live over at micro.dshack.net, where I’m testing…

Saturday Market

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:30:29 +0900

Saturday Market:

Saturday market is a wonderful mashup of food, music, and art, more chaotic than Pike Place in Seattle, and larger than the street fairs in San Francisco. The Setagaya street fair in Tokyo was a…

Before Summersonic

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:16:32 +0900

Before Summersonic:

Right before I left Japan, I got a chance to do a little promo with Naked Communications at Summersonic, a huge music festival right outside Tokyo. One of the perks (other than the free tickets and…

New House

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:16:32 +0900

New House:

No student deserves a house this nice. It was a long, giri-giri, drama-filled journey to get here, but we’ve arrived, and life is good. Apologies for the bragging, but I’m stoked. We’re about 300…

New House

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:01:42 +0900

New House:

No student deserves a house this nice. It was a long, giri-giri, drama-filled journey to get here, but we’ve arrived, and life is good. Apologies for the bragging, but I’m stoked.

We’re about 300…

Before Summersonic

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:13:53 +0900

Before Summersonic:

Right before I left Japan, I got a chance to do a little promo with Naked Communications at Summersonic, a huge music festival right outside Tokyo. One of the perks (other than the free tickets…

Jewish Grandparents and Shiny Electronics

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:19:23 +0900

Jewish Grandparents and Shiny Electronics:

I’m down in San Diego dropping my sister off at school and visiting my awesome super-Jewish grandmother. We showed her an iPhone and an iPod, and besides disparaging our playlists, I think she…

Jewish Grandparents and Shiny Electronics

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:22:37 +0900

Jewish Grandparents and Shiny Electronics:

I’m down in San Diego dropping my sister off at school and visiting my awesome super-Jewish grandmother. We showed her an iPhone and an iPod, and besides disparaging our playlists, I think she…

The Problem With a Creative Customer Base

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:56:20 +0900

The Problem With a Creative Customer Base:

Their creativity doesn’t stop when they get angry. I love my iPhone, but god, AT&T sucks in the city. The reception was pretty good when I was with them in Portland, though, so I’m staying hopeful….