February 2008
yes, I'd say that's some aggressive courtship
Courtesy of the venerable Agence France-Presse: “Both Obama and Clinton have aggressively courted Hispanics, who account for roughly one third of California’s population, launching Spanish-language advertising campaigns and mixing with Latino communities.Clinton munched tacos on the campaign trail in East Los Angeles …”
January 2008
fun with the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine"
Wow, they have the website I designed for the Boston University Student Union in 1995. Notice the way-cool embossed logo background wallpaper.
tornado warning issued for Malibu and the...
um, wha?
slow thursday
Spending the entire day on Facebook instead of doing any actual real work reminds me, pleasantly, of skipping class to hang out on the BU Beach all afternoon.
words to live by
“Life is short, so you might as well buy yourself some kick-ass speakers.”
cable news coverage of the New Hampshire primary...
Barack Obama just delivered one of the best speeches of this campaign, but I could barely see him — the cable news channels all mucked up their coverage with superfluous infographics. CNN doesn’t think their audience is smart enough to realize that Barack Obama is addressing his supporters from his campaign headquarters, so they helpfully include a caption to this effect. Also, in...
I just discovered that I talked somebody out of...
A family friend asked me to give advice to her daughter, who was considering law school. So I pontificated to the girl over coffee for an hour or so, maybe a year and a half ago. I just found out that, based on our conversation, she decided not to go. My work here is done! Apparently, her mom also hoped that I would hit it off with this girl and that we’d get married. That also isn’t...