#12 - Goldman Sachs Phone Screens
what about lorenzos on yokohama tires? what about when people say "take that chain off boy, you're blinding me"? what about the 40 billion candle light atop the Luxor? what about drink till we throw...
View Article#13 - All Nighters
I love "pulling" all nighters. There has been some boring ones where I spent the night in an office coding up lottery ticket data, but the following is my favorite one. One that will never be topped....
View Article#14 - Knowing What Crude Oil Tastes Like When You Don’t
You don't know what crude oil tastes like, do you? I do. You've seen the stuff in movies, but it's usually fake. I've never seen convincing snow in a movie, ever, and I've never seen convincing crude...
View Article#15 - Shenzhen
It's the only frontier of humanity left in the world. The new wild west. Whenever I go there, it feels like I'm in Denver circa 1890. I can't prove that this is really like the old wild west, but the...
View Article#16 - Olympic Torch Relays
I've seen two Olympic torch relays in my life. The first one was for the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. I remember it being very cold. I remember the cheap plastic cups and candles they gave us to...
View Article#17 - Hamburgers
I am a food snob. It has to be fresh, spicy, and interesting. I will never eat bologna. But there is one foodstuff that I love despite its pedestrian roots -- the hamburger. It takes a lot of work to...
View Article#18 - Vegetables, Chinese Style
Chinese food looks simple to cook. There's nothing to bake; everything is flash fried or steamed. All soup is made in front of you, even at a roadside stand. There's separate bowls for all the...
View Article#19 - Buying Random CDs That Are Good
Back when everyone bought CDs, my favorite thing to do was browsing through the selection at used CD shops. I did this for years, and found a ton of music by combing through the other people's...
View Article#20 - Pointless Experimentation
Hypothesis: A cell phone will get cold if you put it in the freezer. Method: Put a cell phone in a freezer, and measure the temperature through bluetooth communication and monitoring software....
View Article#21 - Referral Codes from Dreamhost
Dreamhost! Fuck Ya! And man is this blog DINOSAUR. Hackers, please stay away. .
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