02 May 2008
today's unsolicited and slightly decontextualized advice [The Biz Never Sleeps] - Doctor Memory - blahg@memory.blank.org @ 18:01:47
If you ever get the chance* to acquire founders' stock in a company, take it.
* "chance" implicitly including hopefully obvious baseline requirements like "can still pay for food and rent"
27 Apr 2008
It's official: M and I will be in Japan between 7/2 and 7/18/08. Flying into Tokyo, flying out of Osaka, figure we'll spend at least a few days each in Tokyo and Kyoto, with some day-trips elsewhere as warranted.
We're doing the usual devouring of guidebooks now, but presumably my brilliant and well-travelled friends will have some opinions about stuff we shouldn't miss. This is your open invitation: what should we see and do?
Recommendations for accommodations in Tokyo especially solicited. Introduction to local friends who would be fun to meet even moreso.
We're doing the usual devouring of guidebooks now, but presumably my brilliant and well-travelled friends will have some opinions about stuff we shouldn't miss. This is your open invitation: what should we see and do?
Recommendations for accommodations in Tokyo especially solicited. Introduction to local friends who would be fun to meet even moreso.
05 Apr 2008
On a good day, if the timing works out, I like to be in the gym and on the elliptical machine by 5pm sharp. It's for a simple reason: the machines have TVs that carry Comedy Central, and if I'm on them at 5pm, I can watch last night's Daily Show as I work out, which makes the whole experience move by a lot faster.
...or at least that's how it usually works. Yesterday, however, this happened:
(warning: extremely juvenile humor)
It turns out that it's really hard to keep a good cadence going on an elliptical machine while you are choking with laughter. It also turns out that people look at you really oddly when you have a near-epileptic crack-up in the gym.
I made it until about the 3:45 mark before I had to stop and get off the machine because I was in danger of falling off it.
Well played, Mister Oliver. You win this round.
...or at least that's how it usually works. Yesterday, however, this happened:
(warning: extremely juvenile humor)
It turns out that it's really hard to keep a good cadence going on an elliptical machine while you are choking with laughter. It also turns out that people look at you really oddly when you have a near-epileptic crack-up in the gym.
I made it until about the 3:45 mark before I had to stop and get off the machine because I was in danger of falling off it.
Well played, Mister Oliver. You win this round.
17 Mar 2008
in a garbage bag with latin written on it [Eyeblinks] - Doctor Memory - blahg@memory.blank.org @ 00:48:48
In September of last year, Miranda and I did a strange thing: we came back to New York, not as residents but as visitors. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Manhattan was still there. I'd say it was waiting for us, but the truth is that New York waits for nobody.
I took a few pictures, as I tend to.
16 Mar 2008
Yet more overdue photos.
On September 8, 2007, my dear friends Fred Cooper and Susan DiLeo were married, and I had the honor of officiating.
About half of these photos were taken by Miranda, as my super-powers do not extend to being in two places at the same time.
On September 8, 2007, my dear friends Fred Cooper and Susan DiLeo were married, and I had the honor of officiating.
About half of these photos were taken by Miranda, as my super-powers do not extend to being in two places at the same time.
