It’s been over two weeks since my last post. That’s probably the longest time without an update in close to a year. It’s mostly a matter of guilt – I’ve had things I would have liked to write up, but every time I think about doing it, I think about the papers I should be […]
Category: journal
Come Out and Play
My life, it is busy. Let’s do the quick update of every night since my last post on Monday, September 19th, when I went to the Social Media Club. Tuesday: Stayed home and studied. My only day without interaction outside of work in the last three weeks Wednesday and Thursday: Class (my normal Tuesday class […]
The Power of Song
I’m on the Carnegie Hall weekly events list. Last week’s email announced a Community Sing of Mozart’s Requiem, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11. That immediately became a priority for me to attend. Some background: The Saturday after 9/11 was our choral retreat. We were rehearsing the Brahms Requiem at the time, and Vance, […]
High school nostalgia
Ei-Nyung’s post about her high school got me thinking about my high school experience. That was reinforced by going out to dinner with a high school friend last week, and realizing I have completely failed to keep in touch with anybody from high school (other than this friend, who I found out moved to New […]
Sailing and the AVP
More fun experiences in New York: I got to go sailing with Captain Sasha on Friday evening. Sasha’s an instructor with the Manhattan Sailing School, and took a couple of us out for a sunset cruise. It was lovely and peaceful being out on the water, with just the sounds of the waves and the […]
NextNY PitchCamp
After enjoying my last outing with them, I went to another nextNY event this evening. This one was PitchCamp. Keshava recruited several investors and entrepreneurs (including David S. Rose, the pitch coach written up in BusinessWeek) to serve as coaches while volunteers tried their pitches. The first hour was three companies doing 2-3 minute elevator […]
The Wrath of Richard Feynman
I’m at the Isle of Tortuga, prepping for brunch. Christy had me making Monkey Bread, where we take refrigerated biscuit dough, the kind that comes in the little cans that you crack open, and then split it into little balls, roll it in cinnamon and sugar and place it into a pan for baking. It’s […]
Life in New York
I’ve got a couple posts floating around in my head, but I can’t make any of them come together right now. Not sure if it’s the heat or general distraction or what. So instead I’ll post about stuff I’ve been up to. After Monday night at Hallo Berlin, there was bowling on Tuesday (company field […]
nextNY and other NYC events
A few weeks ago, I came across the nextNY site, a networking group for folks in technology and media in New York. It was started by Charlie O’Donnell, an up-and-coming executive (he just left Union Square Ventures where he’d been working to join a startup they’d funded). I was intrigued because they organized a dodgeball […]
Mike Murray on Hacking the Mind
I’m attending the Hackers on Planet Earth conference this weekend. I’d heard about this several months ago, just before I moved to New York and signed up then, because it was a cheap conference and sounded like it could be interesting. This is the conference associated with 2600 Magazine, which has been around forever. Anyway, […]
