I have been insanely busy at work and without time to write for over a month now, but this is big: P Junior entered the world today!!! 7 pounds, 4 ounces. Congratulations, P and Yi-F!!! The leading candidate name is Camilla. As in Camilla Yen. As in Chameleon.
My friend S.K. just sent me the email below. I love this kind of stuff. I’ve pasted the complete email below, reflecting my answers to the questions: Welcome to the 2007 edition of getting to know your Friends. What you are supposed to do is copy (NOT Forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto [...]
Yes, yes, I know he’s busy, but, after all the hullabaloo, JH still has not responded to the “Reasonable” Dinner Time survey results. At my desk last Monday, he briefly read the post on results and immediately replied, “These people are lying.” That remark alone reveals all you need know about his objectivity. He promised [...]
Thanks to those who completed the Dinner Time survey! Now, the background: I have a standing weekly Wednesday dinner with three buddies — one person picks a place and pays each week. The default meeting time is 7:30 p.m, but our empirical meeting times have ranged from ~7:00 p.m. – ~8:30 p.m., and, regardless, the [...]
I’m engaged in a debate with a friend on when is a “reasonable” time to start eating dinner in the U.S. So as not to prejudice your thinking, I won’t indicate more at this point. To help us inform this debate, please complete this 5-question, “Dinner Time” Survey. Also, please feel free to post any [...]
Congratulations to my friends Patricia and Yi-Fang on their wedding last Saturday! The consensus observation of the guests, which I shared, is that this was a great wedding, and I’m going to ruin the memory of it, of course, by analyzing why. For the bride and groom, the planning period was short. They started the [...]
I spent the past weekend in Vegas for my buddy’s fortieth — yes, fortieth! — birthday. I never get tired of the city of lights, the ultimate playground for adults. Among the many memorable, disclosable highlights of the weekend: Cirque du Soleil’s “Love.” Thoroughly engaging, highly enjoyable show. Cirque’s latest production is set to the [...]
