Archive for the 'News' Category

Best Room for Rent in Park City

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

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 [...]

Why is Volkswagen Service so Bad?

Friday, August 11th, 2006

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 — [...]

Health Insurance is Sexy

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

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 [...]

The Weather’s Good

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

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 [...]

Tidbits

Friday, February 10th, 2006

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 [...]

Wow Yahoo

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

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 [...]

Harriet the Fall

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

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 [...]

Ant… ici… pation…

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

I’m leaving this at the top of my blog until Mount Hood opens.

Then I get out my brand new (previously owned, unused) Burton Canyon 158 with Flow bindings and the new Vans Fargo Boa boots (no laces!).