Michael Phelps

Watching some interviews of him on youtube, I’m convinced he’s extremely modest. He also has a very strong drive, which is very admirable.
There’s something that’s hard to resist about rooting for someone who dominates a field. It does help he’s American.
I’m pretty happy he won the 400 M, and hope he does more.
It’s all his [...]

Olympic Theme Song

Ok, apparently the theme song being used for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is “Forever Friends” shown in the youtube clip below:

That’s nice and happy and all, but, um…this isn’t about coming together to be friends. In fact, even if it was, no great theme song should ever have lyrics. Not even [...]

Bay Area in a Fraction of a Nutshell

Some of my co-workers from back home came up last Friday to visit the area, and I acted as sort of a guide.
It was a very busy weekend, but I unexpectedly wasn’t exhausted.
I wrote a schedule out for two hours on Thursday evening and pretty much it was followed. We hit every single destination. This [...]