Sweet. I am on a Lufthansa flight from LA to Frankfurt, and I got upgraded from Business Class to First Class. Traveling like this sure is fun… I’ve got more space than I need, and they have a great selection of snacks (everything from caviar to Thai Shrimp), champagne, wines, etc. And of course, the [...]
As I was buying some water at work today, I was wondering what difference it would make if I were a little thriftier. After some quick math, I realize it could make quite a difference actually… I buy one or two bottles of water at work every day for $1.25, and often some snack or [...]
Just finished reading Fooled By Randomness, a very interesting book. The author appears just a tad bit eccentric and somewhat arrogant at times, but the central thesis of the book is quite interesting – we tend to assign too much determinism to things when often times, all there really is is randomness. The author makes [...]
Woohoo!! Soccer World Cup 2006 will be starting soon. It happens only every four years, and it’s the biggest sports event on the planet, bigger even than the Olympic games. And this year, it will be taking place in the country where I grew up, Germany. Kickoff will be on June 9th with the game [...]
“The eight-hours mantra has no more scientific basis than the tooth fairy.” I would very much like to believe that!!
We celebrated our friend Cheryl’s birthday last Saturday and had a wonderful dinner at Splashes in beautiful Laguna Beach. This is the view from our dinner table… you can’t ask for much more than that!
… catch up on news and all the stuff that’s happened on the web over the last week or so, but no luck. There are just not enough hours in the day to do so while still getting my work done. Bleh. I need a vacation.
… from a few days in wonderful Montreal, Canada. Great city.
OK, so I guess the time has finally come for me to get a new car. I have to say, I hate the whole car shopping experience. As soon as you walk into any dealership, your friendly sales person walks up to you and won’t stop bugging you. All I want to do right now [...]
A happy belated Cinco de Mayo to all of you! Seems like everybody in California celebrated Cinco de Mayo, Mexican or not. I guess it’s as good an excuse as any to spend the night out partying! I did, of course, join the fun, so my weekend was a really productive one. Bars, poker, golf…
Colbert’s roasting of Bush continues to fuel discussions all over the place…
My family used to have parrots when we were living in Guatemala, but none of them was as eloquent as this little fella… He sure sounds like a lot of fun.
I drink a lot of coffee, which, according to this article, apparently makes me more likely to say “yes”. Huh. Not sure I agree with that, but what do I know.… On the other hand, I’d certainly agree that caffeine “improves memory and makes us pay closer attention to tasks at hand”.