My alma mater of civic engagement, the Bus Project, has registered 12,000 (young) voters in Oregon this year through it’s Building Votes program. That’s about double the margin between Bush-Gore in Oregon in 2000 (i.e. enough to make a difference)! If you are in Oregon or know anyone who is — get involved and help [...]
I have moved to Park City. I found a great place to live, just a block from work, two blocks from the Park City Mountain Resort town lift, and three blocks from the bars. And it snowed last night! This is the view out my front door, and a close-up of the snow. I’ve only [...]
You’d think Volkswagen would find a way incentivize their dealerships to do something better. I’ve never gone back to Exclusively Volkswagen in Ontario because my sophomore year they kept my car for two weeks and charged me a grand before they gave it back. Should’ve checked with the Better Business Bureau before — they got [...]
Actually, health insurance isn’t sexy. But it’s important enough that it ought to be. So now I’m selling health insurance as a student rep for Zane Benefits, LLC. Their marketing materials look pretty run-of-the-mill, and you’d be tempted to write them off as some kind of MLM or fake scam. But I met all the [...]
at 6900 feet, roughly 6600 feet above Claremont. It’s been a while, but here’s the update — Italy was indeed great with Berky and Folu. I had the best meal of my life (salmon, but 5x better than any other salmon I’ve ever had… and Walter’s serves good salmon) in Venice. We drank a lot [...]
Interesting facts I’ve learned recently. “Financial Services” is the largest single sector of the S&P500, representing 22% of capitalization. People value money management more than actually making stuff. NewsCorp bought MySpace. So if you post your band’s songs or make friends on there, you’re contributing to one of the evil empires. Ha ha. I’m camping [...]
So I was checking out Alexa’s Movers and Shakers today to scope out some design trends, and what do I discover but del.icio.us is the number one mover up. Apparently it’s recent enough that Alexa hasn’t realized their link to it is broken… they assume every web address starts with www. I type in it’s [...]
It really surprises me that I haven’t heard this before. The news is old so I’m probably not being original, but I thought it was worth posting. Bush never intended Harriet Myers to sit on the Supreme Court. Since spring, he knew he’d get the chance to appoint two Supreme Court Justices, and he knew [...]