I began seriously looking into buying a car last month. Somewhat ironically, getting a car is one of the activities that would have most benefitted from having a car. I first went to the DMV to get a license, which I technically should have done several months ago (within 10 days of moving). Unfortunately, the […]
Before yesterday, I had never seen any giant monster disaster movies. Godzilla, King Kong, and other Kaiju never quite seemed appealing to me, but Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim seemed like a proper summer epic to see. In the trailer, giant monsters and giant robots beat each other mercilessly, and if that alone is enough to get you excited, you […]
I consider myself “mostly vegetarian.” I have heard other terms for similar diets such as “flexitarian” or “weekday vegetarian,” but both of these are probably too generous for what I do. Most of the time, I don’t eat meat, but sometimes I will. Despite many of my lifestyle choices being defined as absolutes, avoiding meat […]
This isn’t a full post, but I have 3 random, food-related thoughts to share. Relevant fact is that I was in Chicago this past weekend for a library conference.
In some ways, we’re living in the future as we thought it would be. Many of us carry handheld devices with the entirety of human knowledge in our pockets (smartphones). Google is developing a heads-up display for daily use (Google Glass). We have even commercialized space travel (Virgin Galactic). Of course, some things haven’t panned […]
On Saturday morning, I woke up too early for the weekend (and far too early after going to a formal event the night before) to hop in a car with one of my co-workers and a few friends to drive out to Half Moon Bay. The Stanford Alumni Association had their Day of Service, and […]
Just over 4 years ago, JJ Abrams rebooted the Star Trek series with Star Trek, a movie made for the modern moviegoer with a young, hip cast. Star Trek Into Darkness is the sequel and is again directed by JJ Abrams, who again takes the audience on another thrilling adventure with the crew of the Enterprise. The […]
In the United States today, we do a lot of finger-pointing when it comes to education. We argue about what the best solutions are to the problems we see, and we’re also arguing about what the problems are. I try to pay attention to these issues, but frankly, I have very poor perspective on it. […]
After AP tests at the end of senior year in high school, there wasn’t much to do in class. Our teachers didn’t have anything to teach, and we weren’t particularly motivated to learn, so we were stuck in a room full of peers for 51 minutes until the bell rang and couldn’t get too loud. […]
I love baseball. You would have to ask my mom why I love baseball so much, but it started when I was 6-ish and hasn’t really let up. Some baseball fans love it for the statistics, and you might think that the geeky numbers part is what attracted me. Well, I honestly don’t watch as […]