So happy! Jan 31st to Feb 12th I’ll be spending my first time in South America, going on a 10 day cruise around the Galapagos Islands with my parents and their doctor friends. The other days will be spent in Quito, Ecuador. This is my first long vacation since I started work (the longest # [...]
Even though we headed up to Northstar at 5AM, we didn’t reach until 11AM because of a massive amount of traffic on I-80. And when we got there, the slopes were packed!! Luckily, the inches upon inches of fresh powder more than made up for it. Getting out of the deep powder when we went [...]
Wilmot linked me to Chuck Grassley’s twitter account. He’s a 76 year old Republican Senator from Iowa. I’m convinced he’s sending these tweets himself. An intern, while likely capable of using twitter, would never construct messages like this. I really like thinking that he’s wandering around Iowa using a smartphone to send these messages. A [...]
MLK is actually a pretty significant holiday for me, mainly because I worked for 3 years at the Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute when I was at Stanford. It’s kind of sad for me to not touch civil rights and historical research these days, but, I guess it’s better late than never to [...]
Kolina and I were in San Francisco on Saturday to tackle the 100 Things to Eat in SF list. Kolina has thoroughly documented the adventure on her own blog and I already wrote yelp reviews on all the places we checked out, I guess all that’s left to do is just write a few thoughts [...]