Cyrus Farivar

So my man Clark has bailed. Funny, how these politics come full circle. When the election season first kicked in, I had gone with Kerry, simply because I thought he had the ability to win, simply by the Vietnam experience. I even donated $5 to his campaign early on. I even went to one of the first MeetUps in Palo Alto for Kerry but was turned off by the fact that only four people showed up. I liked Dean’s politics,…

So I had drinks with Paul tonight which was lots of fun. Lots of things to think about in terms of careers and journalism and what not. I will definately start reading Slate now (you’ll be pleased, Aaron). Afterwards, Paul left his credit card at the Hotel Durant, and I went to go pick it up tonight — and because I missed dinner, I went for a butterflied calabrese chased with a fresh donut twist from Kingpin. God, fresh donuts…

Today I ditched my 10 am Farsi class and my Econ section in favor of returning to MacWorld to work on a story. As I went and walked from Market St. to 2nd/Bryant, I had a relapse of a feeling that I had last night — how great of a city San Francisco truly is. It’s probably one of my favorite cities, and I barely know it. Only recently, since I’ve had to make regular trips have I come to…

I’m not really sure why, but you can get really really cheap flights around the world right now. These are all from Travelocity.com using the “Search all dates for best fares” button. (All round-trips) SFO-NYC ($153) SFO-Paris ($334) SFO-Prague ($473) SFO-Helsinki ($442) SFO-St. Petersburg ($441) SFO-Budapest ($458) SFO-Bangkok ($565) SFO-Istanbul ($368) (!!!) Amazing. I really really want to go travelling again. I’m thinking that maybe my new idea for this summer, if Dad can get our papers sorted out is…

So I didn’t realize that not being on LJ anymore annoyed more than just Rachel. Both Maria and Boyk both expressed their annoyance that I wasn’t around anymore. So here’s what I’ll do. I’m going to double-post on cfarivar.org and on this LJ for the forseeable future, so as to prevent uproars. (If you’re an LJ user and you read my RSS feed, you might want to just pick one and stick with it.) I had a relaxing day today…

Associated Press:: NEW YORK — An American Airlines pilot flying passengers to New York asked Christians on board to identify themselves and suggested the non-Christians discuss the faith with them, a spokesman for the Fort Worth-based airline said today. Flight 34 was headed from Los Angeles to John F. Kennedy Airport on Friday afternoon, said spokesman Tim Wagner. The pilot, whose identity was not released, had been making flight announcements and then asked that the Christians on board raise their…

I have a guest column on Segways for the Daily Cal today. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand or read it online here.

We’re about 20% of the way there. Comments are welcome. Read it here. [I love OpenOffice’s HTML conversion!]

So for those of you who like to hang around Peet’s Coffee on Domingo, next door to the illustrious Bread Garden, I discovered that there is a Wi-Fi node eminating just down the block from 2936 Domingo. I detected it sitting outside the Bread Garden, but due to the G4 TiBook’s crappy reception, I had to walk down to the Left Coast Cyclery where they have plastic chairs set up (ostensibly for the Peet’s spillover?) where I’m hanging out. If…

This afternoon, following my workout at the RSF, I tackled more of my thesis and only have about five pages to go on my first chapter, due on Friday. It’s good to feel like I’m actually doing something of worth — but we’ll see what my classmates think of it next week. When the chapter is done, I’ll HTML it and throw it up on the web — it’s expanded from the draft. Also I got to hear Errol Morris…