For some reason or other, I have a tendency to sit in the wrong row on airplanes. I’ll see the sign for 5D, for instance, but I have trouble lining up the sign with the actual row, and I inevitably end up sitting in 6D. It’s rather embarrassing, especially when I see a cute guy [...]
How flexible are our opinions on issues? My feeling is that as long as I am educated on an issue, know the in’s and out’s, my opinion is fairly difficult to change on a short time-scale (several months, definitely less than 2 years). However, when I feel uninformed about a topic, I tend not to [...]
Watch enough Chinese movies and inevitably somebody says that they have a ??, literally “bitter life”. It just means that their life seems harder than most; things don’t really work out the way they’re meant to, and they don’t get lucky breaks, or the lucky breaks are actually disasters further down the road. Yesterday I [...]
Conversation with Ryan Sunday morning, as Ryan drove me and him to Paul’s house inside the Beltway for some brunch, I told him about Dave. Ryan had only met him once, so I asked him if he remembers a guy named Dave whom he met when we went to that Jeff Scholar cocktail thing at [...]
My original intention was to write some non-sense about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dean Man’s Chest, or complain some more about unmet expectations. That all went out the window when I saw an email in my inbox from Mary Ashburn with a subject line of “sad news”. Upon opening the email, my jaws dropped, my [...]
I took Myers Briggs when I was 18, and came out as ISTJ, which seemed to fit as best as Myers Briggs goes in terms of being an introverted, logic-oriented engineer. I took it again recently, and I came out ENFJ. So aside from having remained as “judging” (read: judgmental?), I am the complete opposite [...]
jason: you are glitz addicted jason: you don’t need any more sexy swu me: oh but i do jason: you are so sexy you’ve got more men than you can beat off jason: hmm … bad choice of words I think I want to be a doctor, but not just any kind of doctor. I [...]
My parents have completely transformed over the past few years. They are no longer strict parents, and are now really just loving people who care more about my welfare than anybody else. A few examples: 1) When I was little, my parents constantly nagged me to not waste money. Don’t buy things for 52 cents [...]
Specifically on this blog: 1) My posts in here have gotten significantly more frequent. 2) Topics of posts have gotten increasingly more personal. 3) Readership has grown. I have always said that what I post in here is for the amusement of anyone and everyone who happens to come across this piece of the web. [...]
Ireland made me feel lucky: the luck of the Irish, some would say. I think this trip finally woke me up to the fact that I do have it pretty good, and that maybe someone up there really is watching out for me. My (our) luck never seemed to run dry during the trip, even [...]