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| | Current Location: | CroMem | | Subject: | Amused & confused | | Time: | 04:29 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/confused.gif) unsure |
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| Amused
Walking to the housing office, I pass two guys walking, and one sings out "Whenever life gets you down Mrs Brown, and things seem hard or tough!" (Know what he was singing?) I was really amused; Stanford is awesome. Sadly, I didn't react fast enough, I should have sung the next part back!
Confused
The package I picked up wasn't something I ordered. It's a gift package from a recruiter! They're at a company that's been recruiting me really hard, and says sent December 19th. Weird. It's got 2 books inside:
I guess this is a compliment, that they'd send that to me. Seems vaguely unethical, but perhaps I'm being weird. | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | Subject: | A funny text mesage | | Time: | 08:05 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/happy.gif) surprised |
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| I got an unexpected text message today.Hi greg
My name is Yaacov Benzaquen and I am a Rabbi at Hillel. a friend of yours asked me if I could get you some chicken soup and I would like to deliver it. R u in your dorm?
I am an orthodox Rabbi and my wife made the soup (in case you are wondering about the kashrut)
please let me know soon as I am on my way to campus Naturally, I responded; however I was in class, so I couldn't have him deliver it. I asked if there was any way I could pick it up later.No prblm
I can leave it at the hillel fridge.
Can you get it from there? After looking online to figure out what building Hillel was, and then at a map to figure out where that building was, I responded with an enthusiastic yes!there are 2 containers with soup marked G. Schwartz at the hillel main fridge. Let me know when you get it.
And feel better. Refuah shelema (that's a prayer/wish for complete healing) I picked it up a little while ago. And then my phone died. So after I got back & heated it up, I replied and thanked him again!No problem. I look forward to meeting you when you feel better.
Have a great channukah and shabbat shalom !
So the big question I have is... he didn't say who! Who was so awesome, and do I get to thank?! | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | francine, girls | | Subject: | Francine & I are no longer dating | | Time: | 10:11 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/relaxed.gif) relaxed |
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| So, why? Because we just don't have the chemistry we both want.
We're still friends, and we're both doing pretty well. It was definitely the best breakup either of us have ever had. We talked on the phone (and then on Skype when her cell phone died). Laughing, and crying together over the phone. The best part was when we were acknowledging each other different for things.
Within the context of Landmark Education, "acknowledging" someone actually means more than normal. So it was really touching and fun to get to acknowledge her, and to be acknowledged.
And the training that both of us have gotten at Landmark helped make that easy/gentle breakup possible. Every time one of us would get on it, we could realize that we were feeling like "I'm a jerk for breaking up with her", and that wasn't actually true. And so we could let it go, and not be controlled by that feeling any longer.
So, the relationship was [april 22 - october 9] = about 25 weeks, nearly 6 months.
Oh, and I'll be hanging out with her when I come down for Thanksgiving, so have no fear about inviting both of us to events. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| 785 cases.
2 years.
Lots of friends, and some good memories.
And a cool "yearbook"!
Bye bye Web Advanced! Hello Stanford! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I'll be doing a going away party this Friday, in the evening. Not sure where or exactly when, yet. But it'll be a chance to hang out once more before I head off to Stanford.
(Thanks to Olson & Michael Genereux for the reminding to actually schedule this!) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Since I'm helping Nick move his fridge early on, here's a full schedule. Mostly for my usage, in planning & telling ppl when to arrive.
| | Miles | Duration | End Time |
| Greg & Francine leave Irvine | | | 8:00 |
| Irvine -> Garden Grove | 16 | 0:25 | 8:25 |
| pickup truck | | 0:30 | 8:55 |
| Garden Grove -> Tameko's | 14 | 0:15 | 9:10 |
| Load fridge | | 0:45 | 9:55 |
| Tameko -> HB | 7 | 0:16 | 10:11 |
| Unload fridge | | 0:30 | 10:41 |
| HB -> Irvine | 16 | 0:23 | 11:04 | People helping me should arrive |
| Load furniture | | 1:45 | 12:49 |
| LUNCH | | 1:00 | 13:49 |
| Irvine -> SC | 22 | 0:30 | 14:19 | Need people to follow in cars
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| Unload truck | | 1:15 | 15:34 |
| SC -> Truck drop off | 3 | 0:10 | 15:44 |
| Drop off truck! | | 0:15 | 15:59 |
| SC -> Irvine | 22 | 0:30 | 16:29 |
And then Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is playing at the Hollywood Bowl, and we head up there for an 8:30pm show! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Oh yeah, about the cruise... | | Time: | 05:23 pm |
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| I think I'll go on a cruise. Cause I want to take a vacation with Francine. (I loved being with my family while we were in Hawaii, but I missed her!)
So we're off on a 5 night cruise to Baja Mexico. Reason this is doable, is because tickets are $395 each. Yes, 5 Nights!
We went through HotWire, so we got a discount even beyond the $329 price listed on Carnival's website.
Should be fun! | | comments: 12 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Move Out! | | Time: | 03:10 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/excited.gif) excited |
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| I'll be moving out this Saturday (25th). I'll be spending the whole day moving, but I'm hoping that I'll just need help with the big stuff (specifically couch, bed, bookcases). I'll be renting a truck, and then unloading it in San Clemente. So I'd guess we'd be done by 3 or 4pm, at the latest.
Anyone around to help out? Lunch (or dinner) for anyone who can, obviously. (Might be my mom's cooking, or might go out. We'll figure it out that day.) | | comments: 19 comments or Leave a comment |
| So, it's been a while since I updated. A few big things of late:
- Saw Daft Punk before I left. To be honest, I really can't think of a way to do the show justice. It was excellent, although much shorter than I expected. Still, it was absolutely worth $50. If you're curious about the experience, go read this review for the NYC show; it sounds identical to the LA show. Or, you could check out YouTube: the first portion and the encore. Awesome night.
- Went to Hawai'i!!!! Woohoo!
- Got two necklaces. (Necklaces are pretty much the only jewelery I'll wear, but I do like them!) Here's a photo of one. I'll take a photo of myself in the other at some point.
- It was a trip of sea turtles (and one of my necklaces is a sea turtle, looks like made out of abalone shell). I'll try to post the story of the first sea turtle sighting. Summary: we snorkled a number of times, and most of them we saw sea turtles up close. The first time, it was a huge one! Cool animals.
- I got a bit of a tan. Not as much as I'd like, but I'll take what I can get.
- The evening of the Daft Punk concert, I also learned about the wonders of UnderArmour. I've since bought two shirts (one shortsleeve, one sleeveless) and may very well buy more. Used both while in Hawai'i, and tested the claim that you'll be cooler wearing them than shirtless. It's true. This stuff is incredible!
- The lease on my apartment ends August 28th.
- I'll move into Crothers Memorial Hall at Stanford on September 15th.
( More Daft Punk Videos ) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| First, Hawaii on Saturday! Woohoo!!!!
Second, a hilarious HALO 2 machinama music video:
Third, I've always used the term "dop kit" for the toiletries I carry on a trip. I've never known why it was called that, but my father called it that. Randomly, I decided to look it up on Google( ... ) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Committed expenses $1,652.89
- Car $134.52
- Groceries $228.00
- Rent $855.00
- Utility $114.37
- Health $321.00
Fun money $298.72
- Eating Out $88.65
- Fun $70.07
- Gifts $140.00
Irregular expenses $418.00
Longterm saving/debt $1,000.00
Since someone asked, normally I simply toss all the data into an Excel spreadshee, categorize it, and then move cells/rows around to get space to calculate totals.
What I've begun doing instead is using Excel's PivotTable feature. Then I can just reuse the table, and have it pull out the sums for the relevant categories (as seen above). It's much faster, and much less work. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | funny | | Subject: | Hilarious science | | Time: | 06:41 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/amused.gif) amused |
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| So, everyone knows what helium is. Well, imagine if you had something that was the opposite of helium?
This was shown to me by my parents. We all agree that the best part is when Jay's other guest laughs as he walks out of camera. There was actually more to this bit, specifically some fun with fire, but it's not in this clip.
Update: The gas, by the way, is called sulfur hexafluoride. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | 4th of July | | Time: | 01:41 pm |
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| Anyone have any ideas?
My suggestion is people coming down to my parent's place. Big dinner, lots of people, good music & food. We'll be able to see fireworks from the balcony, too. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | funny | | Subject: | An instant message at work | | Time: | 04:14 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/silly.gif) modest |
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| We have a lot of servers here (many for development, a few for actual client use, and a few for internal use). So we have many names in use. Some elements (Iron, Oxygen, Tin, etc), some of the usual names (Testbed), and a few new ones (Earth, Fire). The last server name has led to some very funny conversations, which culminated [for me] today:
Tasia: are you on fire?
Me: Heh.
Me: No, but my girlfriend thinks I'm smokin'
Tasia: LOL
Tasia: i meant the server
Me: hehehe
Tasia: LOL
Me: I know
Me: No, I'm not. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | finances, monthinreview | | Current Music: | US3 - Just Another Brother | | Subject: | Monthly Review - May 2007 | | Time: | 01:06 am |
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| So it has been a long time since I posted a Month In Review... 3 months, in fact!
So, here's my analysis of May. April and March will be coming, but not tonight.
By the way, I used a new, much faster, method to analyze the data; I can give more information, if people are interested.
Committed expenses: -$1,093.93 = 31.9%
- Rent: -$845.00
- Utility: -$248.93
Irregular expenses: -$1,004.74 = 29.3%
- Car: -$209.39
- Groceries: -$255.93
- Misc: -$88.41
- Health: -$451.01
Fun money: -$275.79 = 8.0%
- Eating Out: -$219.79
- Entertainment: -$56.00
Longterm saving/debt: $3,000.00 = 87.5%
Income: $3,428.73
- Interest: $54.21
- Wages: $3,374.52
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| | Tags: | cool | | Subject: | Cool tech | | Time: | 05:25 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/thoughtful.gif) thoughtful |
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| Cool way of viewing and interacting with very high resolution panoramas.
And a very cool method of monitoring power usage and cost: energyjoule | | comments: Leave a comment |
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