Archive for 2006

A Ghost Story

Last fall, a group called Campus Movie Fest came to Stanford. The task was to give each group a camera, a laptop, and a week to film a five minute film. The short films would then be entered into a campus competition, with the winners moving on to a regional competition and so on. Winners [...]

Manners!

For Christmas, my parent’s, err…Santa, always gets us some random gift. This year was no exception, as I was given “From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Man.” It wasn’t that bad a gift – there’s useful instructions about how to properly set your table or the appropriate way to act in business [...]

Time’s Person of the Year: You

When I first heard about Time magazine naming the person of the year, You, it was on a clip from Jon Steward’s Daily Show. Called “Newsweak,” Stewart appropriately pointed out how silly it was for Time to consider “You” as the person of the year. Are we so stupid to get excited about seeing ourselves [...]

Carson Williams is Awesome

When I found out that it was a gentleman named Carson Williams who had created the amazing Xmas lights display that was Break.com’s #4 video for 2006, I was curious if he had made one for this holiday. I was not surprised to find that he had. Here he is with “Jingle Bells” by Barbara [...]

Deer

There were two deer running around my backyard a yesterday. Here’s photographic proof. Regardless of these pictures, I want to emphasize to my Stanford friends that I do not live on a farm! Of course, I didn’t get to close to them, since deer can be pretty vicious, as this stupid hunter found out: