Today is our last full day on the island of Rhodes. If I had to describe our visit here in one word, it would be: overwhelmingly swelteringly impossibly oppressively stiflingly hellishly fucking HOT. During the day, it’s 47 degrees Celsius, or 116 degrees Farenheit. At night, it cools off to 34 degrees Celsius, or 93 […]
The baby kicked last night. Greta felt it.
It’s really not fair that she got to feel it, and i didn’t. I’m going to mention this to the baby when it is old enough to speak.
So there really is a little creature inside my wife’s tummy.
I don’t have time to write much, but here are a few updates:
1) we’re in rhodes now. it’s hot as hell here, literally. Today i swam out in the water to some rocks that jutted up in the middle of the cove, and stood on them. from the beach, it looked like i was walking […]
My dad got me some Bose noise-canceling headphones for graduation. They are AWESOME, especially in a place with a lot of background noise, like an airplane. I will never travel without them again. Thanks, Dad!
Technology is truly amazing. When will Bose find a way to incorporate this technology in mobile phones? Ambient noise is […]
Greta usually has a pretty good sense of direction. If nothing else, she’s an independent wild child who does NOT like to be told what to do, or how to do it. So it might come as a bit of a surprise to learn that I have a better sense of direction, in Athens, than […]
Monday night, I stayed up until at least 4 reading Atlas Shrugged. The book really has me. I can’t put it down. But Aviad was right, it may not be the best choice for a vacation. Greta and I argued for an hour over lunch about the correct way for a society to handle its […]
Last night at dinner, Greta and I decided to start rating all of the restaurants that we patronize in Greece. (This is a good idea, so obviously it was her’s.) There are four categories: food, atmosphere, service, and value. Each category will be ranked on a scale of 1 to 5, and then a total […]
We just landed in Athens and checked into our hotel. Free internet access. But our converter doesn’t work, so my battery will probably only allow for 23 minutes of computer time.
A few thoughts:
Why are airplane blankets so small?
Why do children feel the need to kick the back of the seat in front of them?
Why don’t the […]
I love when beers have their own glasses. I don’t know if it’s just another gimmick that the Belgians have propagated on us, but it’s pretty cool. Here’s a picture of a beer that I had with lunch today, along with an Israeli beer that Casey ordered.
The Israeli beer had its own glass, […]
We’re heading to Greece on Sunday. My reading lineup is quite large…there’s no way I’m going to get through them all. But I like to have choice, even if I have to carry around a bunch of books. Here’s the list:
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
Mythology, Edith Hamilton (just in case we want to […]
Our condo is officially under contract. Woo Hoo!
It’s yet another bittersweet moment (just like graduation). We are obviously psyched to sell our condo, but we’re really going to miss it, too. It is such a unique place with a ton of character.
The buyer seems like a great person who appreciates all the little details…so obviously […]
Some great comments from my last post….I started to reply in a comment, but I figured I’d just write a fresh post.
We need to recognize that people do things out of their own self-interest. Any expectation otherwise is unrealistic and ignorant. We should design systems that harness this inherent “selfishness”; they will be much more […]
Lots of mixed emotions from graduation…forgive me if they’re scattered.
Tuck Scholar: I found the whole experience of Tuck Scholarhood incredibly awkward. I showed up at Cook Auditorium and Amy handed me my Tuck Scholar pin and ribbon. I immediately felt conspicuous. I felt like everyone was staring at me.Obviously everyone wasn’t staring […]
I registered www.tuck2007.com yesterday. Your class secretaries (Leslie and I) have already started thinking about ways to use the Internet to help our class stay connected. Here are a few ideas for the site:
A form to make it easy for people to submit their updates to us
A discussion forum organized by region, to […]
Greta never buys birthday cards. She doesn’t believe in them. She’ll buy a nice thoughtful gift, but she won’t attach a card to it.
She has nothing against cards…in fact, she often writes beautiful hand-written notes. (She has admin access to herbietown, but so far she’s refused to post anything, which is your loss, dear readers, […]
After all that unnecessary drama (described here and here), I will be able to write “where he was a Tuck Scholar” on my resume. I received a letter in my mailbox yesterday, from the dean. Woo Hoo!
I ended my time at Tuck with 9.5 H’s, 16.5 S+’s, and 1 S. I […]
This YouTube video is hilarious. Thanks to Alasdair for passing it on.
Direktlink zum Video auf Youtube
Curious about how businesses in New York make money? Me too.
This New York magazine article tells all about the following types of organizations:
A Yellow-Cab Driver
A Drug Dealer
A Private Investigator
A Diner
A Soup Kitchen
A Yoga Studio
A Sex Shop
A Discount Store
A Pizza Place
A Copy Shop
A Four-Star Restaurant
A Private School
A Department Store
A Drug Company
A Financial Firm
A Midtown Building
A […]
This is yet another hilarious post from Scott Adams at Dilbert.
My folks are coming up for graduation. My father, stepmother and brothers are currently slotted for a couple rooms in Richardson, a dorm at Dartmouth. I’d really like to get them somewhere more comfortable.
Email me if you have any ideas. 2 rooms is ideal, but 1 would do. 1 night only-Saturday June 9.
This is an interesting story from the NYT about the correlation between genius and misfit. Obviously the headline caught my attention because I am a genius and I’ve been called a misfit.
The article references a 1962 book by Thomas Kuhn called “The Structure of Scientific Revolution,” which said that identifying “paradigm shifts” was the […]
Click here for a story about The Orion, a new barbecue invention which can cook a 20 pound turkey in 2.5 hours.
But can it cook a Turducken?
This has the potential to quickly become a Simmons family classic. Lance?
A friend sent me a link to this hilarious Craigslist post. OTFRALOL. (On The Floor Rolling Around Laughing Out Loud….)
My Inbox has been overflowing with To-Do’s from Tuck: disconnect computer from Tuck’s system, fill out contact forms for alumni relations, close out gym locker, etc.
One of these nagging items has been the CDO survey. I know it’s important for Tuck and I’m happy to help, but it struck me as a really annoying […]
I added a new poll to my blog, related to naming our child.
Please visit and vote (it will take less than 20 seconds).
