Thanks, Blaurb

Thanks to Blaurb for the resolutions! I look forward to the lattes in the morning. Well I'm back again for a post. Things have been pretty ho-hum for me these days, as I spend them being a T.A. and a graduate student here at UCSD. I think I have decided I want to start a book club here. As a grad student, I really spend very little time reading books for leisure (not that I was ever really a heavy reader), and my stack of books I want to read has gotten larger and larger ever since I got here. I guess a book club for my fellow first years will have to wait until after quals though, which comes around in May, I believe. Anyways, here are selections from my own personal book list, that I hope I will be able to read sometime in the near future:

- The Search by John Batelle (essentially a biography of Google)
- The Universe in a Single Atom: the Convergence of Science and Spirituality by the Dalai Lama
- The Essays of Warren Buffet: Lessons for Corporate America
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

Alas, I probably won't get through this list before 2007 rolls around, but maybe. Perhaps that shall me one of my real resolutions. =)

On an entirely separate note, I came across some hilarious Brokeback Mountain parodies, and here are some links:


And an old favorite, found while browsing YouTube.com,

my new resolutions

here are things that i will do in order to improve my life. i am recording these so that you all can hold me accountable to them.

1) stop laughing like a maniac who has lost his mind
2) give jen a massage every day
3) cook yummy food
4) make lattes
5) remember to transfer $200 into jen's account every week for her allowance
6) stop talking about poo and farting
7) learn that it's not polite to point and laugh at people who are doing you a service by writing a blog entry for you
8) update my blog at least once every three days

thank you that's all.