Apparently on January 28, the Daily Show showed a clip about Obama and his new church:
If you watch until the end, you will see an appearance by the Cantor who has led high holiday services for me for my entire life. Pretty cool stuff.
My good friend Brennan who apparently goes by DCBG now interviewed THE Busta Rhymes during the inauguration festivities, and I finally got a chance to watch the videos. I particularly like the second one, where Busta talks business, not in a clearly-lying hip-hop kind of way, but with actual responsibility at the forefront of his [...]
I’m exhausted so this will be short. On Thursday I left Seattle to drive south with my big sister who is moving back to the east coast. We drove to Oregon on Thursday night and slept in a perfectly acceptable Motel 6 in Albany, OR. On Friday we made it all the way to San [...]
I got an email the other day from this guy which he signed “TIA”. Here’s the email (basically):
From: Some Guy Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:31 PM To: Some List Subject: Looking for ride to a place
Hello, Commuters!
My destination is blah blah blah.
I can [...]
They say the first step is admitting you have a problem, and I need to admit one. I am addicted to my cell phone. On Friday night T-Mobile apparently stopped working in my area of Seattle. I could not text, nor could I make or receive calls. It was devastating. I’ve never felt so separated [...]
Due to a weird string of events, including Christmas and the release of Communicator, I have not been to work in just under three weeks. Crazy, right? But now I am returning, and I have a short but intense list of things to do. I’m a little nervous to be honest. I might not even [...]
I get a day off today, and if you don’t know why, that is too bad.
Still, it’s been a long year. I don’t want to rehash old times. Here’s a quick recap for those who missed 2008.
One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.
(via BG#1 aka DCBG aka many other things)
My parents came to visit this week and my father told me this cool story, which I will share with you. He’s a lawyer at a firm in DC called Robbins Russell currently working on a large and complex bankruptcy case. Specifically, his firm represents a group of creditors suing some other creditors on behalf [...]
Today I am working on my charitable donations, which I try to do about this time every year. “Try” here is nearly synonymous with “fail”. At the end of every year I sit down at my desk and I start thinking about donations, and I always get overwhelmed. Who should I give to? How much [...]
Self Analysis
I’ve had two occasions for some formal self analysis in the past two days, and let me just say, man, that is tough. I consider myself on of the more introspective people around, but there’s introspection and there’s it’s closely related evil twin, self-deception. I always liked the idea of residual self image from the [...]