Archive for October, 2007

My first year at Berkeley I lived on the 6th floor of Putnam Hall in Unit 1. A few rooms down lived a wiry, red-headed nut named Ethan Lindsey. He was taller than I was but probably half my weight, yet he talked as if everyone was 100 feet away and couldn’t hear him. He [...]

Every now and then a special event unfurls itself across my lap, and I end up at one of the many fine dining establishments dotting Shanghai’s highbrow landscape. Last Friday was one of them, as Lydia closed out her first quarter century, so we ended up at Laris for the first time. Unlike its downstairs [...]

The massive NBA marketing machine rumbled through Shanghai last night in the first of three “China Games,” the latter two to be held in Macau beginning tonight. The pre-season game between the Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers was held at the Qizhong Sports Stadium in the Min-hang district. Some observations:

The stadium is FAR. We’re [...]

I played basketball with Jamie and a couple of other friends on Saturday. It was so intense that after the first two games, I basically played zone in my little corner on the baseline, occasionally waving my arms around to feel active. I was so out of shape that I just couldn’t cut it. Well, [...]

Last week I flew from San Jose up to the Portland area for a two day meeting with the rest of the finance team. The morning of the first meeting, I woke up to use the bathroom, and on my way back I jammed my right big toe into the large suitcase I had foolishly [...]