March 2010
15 posts
Woohhhhh
Sitting in the Seattle Airport waiting for my flight to SFO to board - getting back to Stanford tomorrow morning. The last 9 days hvae gone by so quickly, it feels like I am coming home from summer camp and just can’t process everything that has happened. So, here are a few photos from the trip that I just uploaded on Facebook.
With Gunnar and Haukar overlooking Reykjavik on the first...
Update...
Haven’t had much time in the last few days to post, so here’s a quick recap of the last 72 hours:
Wednesday
First day of the conference, afterward we went to a geothermal power plant for “power networking” - all the energy here is dirt cheap because they can power it by the steam coming up from the ground. At night we went out to Coffee Bar and had a great time (pics to...
Day 1 wrap up
Hi all… 2am here in Iceland, going to sleep in after I write this. Woke up a bit late, still exhausted from the 30+ hours of transit - went to the Clara.is headquarters and hung out for a few hours, taking care of some odds and ends. We had sushi for lunch at Fish House, I ordered the VOLCANO roll just so I could have some finality with the whole volcano-in-mid-flight-diversion-to-Boston...
First impressions
I took off on Saturday at 4:30pm from Seattle to Reykjavik, Iceland. Halfway through the eight hour plane ride the captain came on the PA and announced there had been a volcanic eruption near the Keflavik Int’l Airport, and Iceland had grounded all incoming and outgoing flights. Our plane was diverted to Boston. We arrived in Boston around 2:30am and were greeted with an announcement:...
Facebook traffic tops Google for the week →
seaneldridge:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Facebook topped Google to become the most visited U.S. Web site last week, indicating a shift in how Americans are searching for content.
The Way We Live Now: Facebook Addicts
The Avatar Wore Cardinal (Stanford Magazine) →
henrytsai:
From the Stanford Mag:
“Dr. Grace Augustine is the movie’s hard-charging but ethical ecologist, played by Sigourney Weaver, ‘72. And pretty much whenever Augustine makes the nifty switch into the body of an alien on the planet Pandora, her thin, blue, 10-foot-tall avatar sports a classic Cardinal-red shirt with STANFORD stamped across it.
Indeed, Stanford is one of only two “brands”...
The Limits of Rahmism →
“George Bush has recommended country-western music as an inspirational source of...”
– pg 2 of The Wild West — The Mythical Cowboy & Social Theory by Will Wright
Ok, there are some things he was right about.
Rumors of Carlos Slim buying The New York Times
Although these rumors have been squashed by Slim’s PR team, it is worth thinking about the ramifications of having someone like Slim own The Times. The NY Times is perhaps the most trusted newspaper in the world, and while it has a reputation of being a left-leaning publication, their influence is immense. If you take that last sentence and replaced ‘left’ with...