August 2005

Seeing this NY Post article on the Chinatown buses linked on Wonkette recently made me remember that I should put back up my Master’s thesis. Here it is, now licensed under Creative Commons. A few times every weekend, a large dark blue airport shuttle-sized van pulls up in front of the Charter Oak Supermarket in Hartford, Conn. This “station” is situated a few minutes from the main station in downtown Hartford that houses both Amtrak trains and Greyhound bus lines.…

At the request of Adam Kuban over at Slice, I just donated $25 to the Katrina relief fund at Second Harvest. If you can spare some cash, now’s the time.

Macworld Publisher Rick LePage gave me his Treo 650 for free yesterday. Today, thanks to tips from Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell, I can play any video on my Treo. That means The Daily Show. Also, when I finally install my new radio in my car, that means I can have The Daily Show audio playing through the car stereo. Holy crap.

My response to this earlier post on Berkeley pizzerias is up on Slice.

This is my Columbia J-school buddy Michael Keller who mooned Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi early this morning. He’s one of the authors of Eye of the Storm. (Reuters Photo 2.) Stay safe (and dry), fellas.

Eugene Tsui, Architect: The last attempt at a bridge designed to span the Strait of Gibraltar was a design by U.S. engineer T.Y.Lin in 1986 which would require three support pylons one mile high and footings that plunge to the sea bottom one half mile down underwater and then sink an additional quarter of a mile destroying the existing ecology of the sea bottom surrounding it significantly disturbing the marine environment of the area. Lin’s design was based on previous…

Some buddies of mine from Columbia are blogging their experiences down in New Orleans Biloxi, Mississippi: Eye of the Storm

“I still am bitter to a large degree, but then I think about what Jackie Robinson once told me,” [Former Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe] said. “He said, ‘You’ve got to change one letter in that word. Change the ‘i’ to an ‘e.’ Forget about bitter, try to make things better.’ “ — LA Times, August 28 2005

According to a piece in Computerworld, one of Macworld’s sister publications. About 8 million passports are renewed annually out of some 57 million passports in circulation. Last I tried to get this information from State Dept. I was told that I couldn’t have it due to “security reasons.”

Dude! Look at how many Persians are speaking at Web 2.0! Hossein Eslambolchi, CTO, AT&T Omid Kordestani, VP Sales, Google Yusuf Mehdi, Senior VP, Microsoft Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Safa Rashtchy, Analyst, Piper Jaffrey