As seen in...

So, I realized that it would have been smarter for me to put my email on the blog...so here goes (I apparently also very much fail at this whole blogging thing. You all know how I "don't usually do this blogging thing..."). For all posterity and for the intertubes...

NCIS: Tony and Ziva (two of the main characters) get caught in the crossfire and end up locked inside a metal shipping container. Among the many wooden crates, they find billions of dollars. BUT, that's not all...even more exciting, they find hundreds of copies of a top Bollywood film! Kuch Kuch Hota Hai! :) It involves Shahruhk, Kajol, Rani Mukerji and a love triangle (could you have guessed?). And yes, all of them have appearances in Om Shanti Om during Deewangi Deewangi.

Hitch (the movie with Will Smith): Michael Westen from Burn Notice...well his real name is Jeffrey Donovan. No hot shot spy business going on here though, just a plain old businessman that's a d-bag.

X-Men: The Last Stand: Anna Paquin as Rogue...yes, the same girl that's in True Blood, but now, instead of just having a gap between her front teeth and a southern accent, she also has a bright white streak in her hair.

Danny Boy

I moved into my Law School dorm on Wednesday, and I've been doing orientation activities to introduce me to the Harvard campus I've lived on for four years. (I don't have to sign up for the Coop or get a new ID photo taken, and I already know my way around. It's a snap!) But our walking tours of Boston tomorrow are postponed because Tropical Storm Danny is headed for the Boston area, bringing three inches of rain tonight and tomorrow.

I mentioned this to Rezwan this evening after getting dinner with him and was surprised by his reaction. "Danny? I really think that discourages people from taking precautions against hurricanes - giving them cute, friendly names, like 'Hurricane Danny' or 'Hurricane Bill.' No one's afraid of 'Danny.'"

"Well," I said, "what would you suggest?"

"Something threatening and unfamiliar. Katrina, Gustav, these are names you don't hear every day, names people can really be scared of. So how about... Hurricane Bartolomeo, or Hurricane Boris?"

I caught on pretty quick. "You could have Hurricane Dragoslav, or Hurricane Dmitri, or Hurricane Dietrich!"

"Exactly," said Rezwan. "Bartolomeo, that sounds like somebody who could kill you. People would be scared of Bartolomeo. Bill? What's Bill gonna do? Cook you a hamburger."

I'm on a plane

and since I am the roaming gnome, I have to blog from this unusual internet-enabled location. :)

Good to note: Delta and AirTran both now offer wifi!
Bad to note: they are bastards, so they charge for it.
Important to note: I am not actually a hypocrite; I am not paying for this wifi. I got a free promo code thingy because this service is new.

Fun times: I got bumped to a later flight twice today, and I am now in possession of two free round trip flights to anywhere AirTran flies. So if you want me to come grace you with my presence, now's the time to make your case. :)

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

I'm currently on the gulf coast of the Florida panhandle with the family for a beach vacation. We stopped at cvs to pick up some things, and it turns out that cvs in Florida is not quite like the cvs in the square...


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Sent from my iPod

Intriguing Harvard Sports Trivia

Harvard Stadium was once an Olympic venue - hosting prelims in the soccer tournament at the Los Angeles-based 1984 Summer Olympics.

Early LOLcat Discovered

Via LanguageLog, an ancestor of modern LOLcats on a postcard from 1905:



Photographer Harry Whittier Frees took that photo and plenty of others, but his pioneering efforts went unnoticed for decades until the development of Impact font revolutionized the genre.

Dasher's final words

I just got back from visiting Dan on Martha's Vineyard. (I am so sunburned. Sunscreen LIES.) Monday night, he and Sameer and I made hamburgers using a charcoal grill, something none of us had used before. 

As Dan went to light the newspaper/charcoal contraption on fire, he said: "Well, if I die, tell Asian girls I love them."

federal poetry

magnetic wordplay from my office refrigerator:

can't talk am poor

make ed work

when and how did mom eat the children ?

no money !!!

i'm all compelled

big dad

Interesting article about Harvard's endowment

This article was just published in Vanity Fair in August (I read it during risk management training! Now I don't know how to manage risk and will lose all your money should you invest it with me)

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/harvard200908

Anyway, I don't think it really says anything we haven't heard before, but it does provide some interesting insight on the politics of the Harvard Management Corporation as well as the closed-lipness of Harvard towards the public regarding our endowment. In any case, it's an interesting read.