The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

Tendinitis sucks. For real.
Back in August, Michelle asked me to run the BAA Half Marathon with her. No problem, I said! We had run the Dublin Marathon in 2005, so 13.1 miles was definitely not intimidating, plus I was starting off with a pretty decent fitness base. I had been playing [...]

Extreme Pumpkins in an annual competition in which contestants carve awesome, freaky, and often hilarious pumpkins. Well worth looking through. This one, though not part of the Extreme Pumpkins site, is definitely my favorite that I’ve seen so far!

In his recent essay, Paul Graham says:

Practically everyone thinks that someone who went to MIT or Harvard or Stanford must be smart. Even people who hate you for it believe it.
But when you think about what it means to have gone to an elite college, how could this be true? We’re talking about a decision [...]

I’m not a big shopper, but one thing that has struck me as almost universally true is that the clearance rack in a clothing store is filled almost exclusively with the extreme sizes–your XLs, XXLs, and even the occasional XS. Given that I wear a medium, this means that I very rarely can purchase [...]

Due to the water damage from the heating pipes, I’ve had to move all my stuff from the guest bedroom to the master bedroom (I previously had surrendered the master bedroom due to Michelle’s quantity of clothing), and our place has been a disaster ever since. We’ve made small steps by cleaning out the [...]

A few months ago Michelle and I started noticing some abnormal behavior with our cat; namely, she peed on us when we were sleeping. She had also been peeing on the couch and using the litter box with surprising regularity. Thinking that something might be wrong with her, I brought her to the [...]

As many of you know, I have left IBM and am now a product manager at Endeca. I’m definitely sad to leave Ben, Wing, Lee, Elias, Rouben, Matt, Steve, Sean, Alyssa, Konrad, Anne, Chet, Alister, Paul, Louis, Aaron, and Frank. AdTech really was a great place to work, and I learned a ton [...]

Right before leaving for Houston, I discovered mold in the walls of my guest bedroom. The cause was a burst heating pipe in the floor above which had destroyed my bathroom ceiling about a month prior. Large holes were cut in that ceiling, water drained and a ton of bleached poured, but we [...]

The night before Michelle and I left for recent trip to New Orleans, the ceiling in my bathroom began dripping. We had only 6 hours to pack and get on a plane, so I called my buddy Ryan, who’s a contractor, to take care of it while I was away. The source of [...]