Dream bike

I was dreamlining the other day, and decided that I’m going to start bicycling as a hobby. It has a number of benefits:

easy exercise – I’ve had difficulty being diligent with my fitness routine.

fresh air – It’ll encourage me to take breaks. I get so focused when I work that I usually don’t [...]

Hoops with Obama

From Andrew Sullivan’s blog:
Can you tell anything about a presidential candidate by playing basketball with him? I guess this is Matt Yglesias’ bailiwick, but this Sports Illustrated piece is fun:
Obama was confident but not cocky, unselfish but unafraid to shoot. On court he showed the same balance that has fueled his political rise; he could [...]

Obama’s closing argument

Obama’s inspirational final speech in Iowa yesterday:

If you haven’t read it yet, please read my previous entry on Obama to understand why Obama isn’t just qualified, he’s absolutely necessary.

Jay Smooth on being first

Here’s the latest entry from Jay Smooth, host of Ill Doctrine – a hip-hop video blog:

I discovered this blog a week ago from this excellent list of the “Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading” on Fimoculous. Rex Sorgatz, the blogger behind Fimoculous, writes:
When Ze Frank sadly abided by [...]

Random act of kindness

Taken while checking on my car (the silver Prius) to make sure I wasn’t getting a ticket while reading at Barnes and Noble in Old Town Pasadena. Two girls bring food and drink to a homeless woman with two cats. They didn’t just drop it off impersonally; they knelt down to talk briefly [...]

The Best of “What I’ve Learned”

My favorites from Esquire’s The Best of “What I’ve Learned”:
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. –Jimmy Dean
Garry Shandling always said to me, “Don’t get mad, get funny.” It changed my life. –Rip Torn
Sometimes I think there’s no [...]

This just happened

MOM: Who’s playing? Chicago?
BROTHER: Lakers against the Suns.
MOM: Who’s winning?
BROTHER: The Lakers. By seven.
MOM: The Lakers are beating Chicago?

Happy holidays!

I probably shouldn’t show this, but in the spirit of the holidays…

As part of the opening act for Troy Phi’s Entertainment Night last April, the men of the executive board performed “Jingle Bell Rock” from Mean Girls. (I’m second from the right.) If you haven’t seen the movie, here’s the [...]

How to think

Ed Boyden of MIT’s Technology Review has written fantastic tips for “managing brain resources in an age of complexity.” Here are some choice excerpts:
1. Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you’re reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always [...]

Colin’s Bear Animation

The description on YouTube:
This is my friend Colin’s bear animation. And this video is genius I can’t stop laughing. So here you can laugh too. You have to listen to it with sound, and watch it twice cause the second time is way better.
So this video was created by a third [...]