Archive for September, 2007

Officially no longer a student

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Classes start tomorrow at Stanford. Now I really am no longer a student. =[

The Day I Almost Died

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Yesterday I crashed into a tree and probably totaled my car. I was heading to the gym around 11am and it had been drizzling all morning. When I made a slight left on E. Bayshore, my tires lost traction and my car turned left. I over-steered to ...

Moody Road

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

For my bike ride today, I headed south on Foothill Expressway to El Monte Road and then Moody road. After making the turn into Moody, I actually turned off onto Altamount, and rode that up about 500 feet before thinking that I had gone the wrong way and turned ...

What the heck Cardinal’s

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The St. Louis Cardinal's, once 1 game out of first place, have now gone on an 0-7 losing streak. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I really really hope they make the playoffs, but after this past week, I'm not sure they deserve it.

King’s Mountain -> OLH

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

With Wilmot gone, today I went on the longest bike ride I've ever been on. Starting from my home in East Palo Alto, I made my way on Sand Hill and climbed Kings Mountain Road to Skyline. Kings Mountain was pretty grueling, since it was all uphill, taking ...

Anonymity and Access to Information

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

If you log into Facebook, you'll see that they're opening profile pages to search engines, allowing anyone's profile page to appear in Google search results. I'm sure thousands of high schoolers are crying foul at this moment, worried that the "I fall asleep in AP Bio" group they joined ...

In-Flight Messaging: Invasion of Privacy or the Wave of the Future?

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Besides offering in-flight movies and TV for its commercial flights, Virgin Airlines is also allowing its passengers to chat with each other. Tech Diary from the WSJ recently did a hands-on investigation of this new service, and the results are nothing short of hilarious."11F rocks!" Oh. My. God.

OLH -> Skyline -> Page Mill

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Wilmot and I rode from Arastradero up Old La Honda, and on Skyline to Page Mill. According to Google maps, the route is 23.4 miles, which took us over 2 hours, since I'm slow as hell on the uphills. Going down Page Mill was exhilarating and a bit scary; at ...