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19 Foreign Currencies Worth Less than Monopoly Money
Today I was walking home from a rousing game of Rummikub with some friends. I mentioned that my phone was at critbatts, a strange shortened version of slang that Todd and I use, which means “critical batteries”. To give credit where it’s due, our good friend Elliot actually invented that particular phrase. Until that, we’d…
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Tynan Meeting Tynan
“Like a stalker thing?” “No,” I replied, “You don’t get it. Her name is Tynan, too! That’s crazy!” “I guess.” Then I realized that my friend, Phil Jr. was sitting next to his father, Phil Sr.. Meeting someone with the same name wasn’t a big deal to him. But it was for me. Until yesterday…
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2011
New Year’s eve is approaching, which means that people are making their New Years’ resolutions and asking me what mine are. I don’t have any, and I think that’s a good thing. The problem with New Years Resolutions is that they’re not motivated by a burning desire to change. Wee all know that most people…
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Embarrassing Stories of Childhood Crushes
I ‘m a bit under the weather today, which for some reason makes me want to write something fun and useless. Behold three little stories of childhood crushes. The Chair Lift Switch The first girl I had a crush on was named Keely. I got my mom to take me to a toy store to…
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You Aren’t What You Buy
When I was in college, I bought a Rolex. In the week or so that I waited for it to come in the mail, I got really excited about the idea that I was going to have a Rolex. To me, someone who had a Rolex was a different type of person, simply because he…
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Throwing Yourself a Softball
I got a present today and it’s not even my birthday or Christmas. That present came from myself, and it came in the form of a half written blog post and the title for another one (this post here, in fact). Since implementing the no computer after 11 rule (which, I’ll admit, I’m not totally…
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Obama’s Not an Idiot, and Neither is George Bush
There’s a lot of political talk going around San Francisco these days, thanks to the recent election. There’s also a fair deal of rioting due to the Giants’ win, but that’s a different post entirely. I’ll preface this post by saying that I’m nearly completely uninterested in politics. It’s not something I think about, it’s…
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Entrepreneurs Don’t Want Jobs
If you paid me fifty times what I make now to work at a regular job, I wouldn’t do it. Over the past few weeks I’ve informally asked some of my other entrepreneur friends how much they’d have to be paid to work a normal job in their industry. None of them quoted any reasonable…
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How I Solved an Interesting Problem and Made a Web App in 72 Hours
On Tuesday night my friend Brian and I tried out a new restaurant in Tokyo. An Izakaya is a tiny bar that also serves food, popular with Salarymen. Usually the food is huddled way over on the unhealthy end of the spectrum, but we found a macrobiotic one with good reviews. We sat there…
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A Few Stories from Japan
I’ve been in Japan for just over a week now. Todd and my Japanese teacher, Michiru, just left yesterday. My friend Brian is still here. Michiru took us to a bunch of places we’d never been before, and guided us through the murky Japanese-speaking waters. Todd took a lot of great photos (same camera setup…
