May 26

Today the California Supreme Court upheld a proposition that restricted the definition of marriage to be strictly between a Man and a Woman. This made a lot of people upset and rightfully so... who owns the definition of a marriage?! Certainly not the state. I'm pleasantly pleased to find that my friend's father was the only dissenting vote in the court, yay Justice Carlos R. Moreno!

This photo is of the protest that became a march that ended up in the Yerba Buena market. I wish I had a wider lens to capture more of the ambience.

May 23

While Jason was driving around town I spotted two hot asses.

May 17

I went to my high school reunion this weekend and I had a great time. It was inconvenient to travel to New England, but definitely worth it. I hadn't seen some of my classmates since graduation... and my how we've grown. I'm pleased to say that all of my friends are studying worthwhile topics or engaging in exciting ventures and all of my adversaries are ridiculous.

I was most excited to see how my dormitory had changed. This past year Main Street had only 2 preps and 5 of their seniors were kicked out. It's disappointing to hear of seniors getting kicked out, hopefully they didn't cause anyone great harm and learned from their mistakes.

Lastly, I heard dorm grill was in the. Perhaps they should offer more appealing combo meals?! Here's what I sold my senior year and it seemed to work out:

Apr 26

I just had a bowl of snap peas that were delicious. In roughly 3 weeks I will have grown a strawberry!

I made this collage with PanoLab, an iPhone application Tom made.

Dec 16

While chirping my boo, my mind drifted: What's the smartphone market going to look like in a year? Is the iPhone going to take over the market as the iPod did? What type of impact will Android make? I tried to answer those questions in this analysis.

Nov 30

Eye spy with my little eye, a conjunction of the moon, Venus, and Jupiter. They form a 3 degree triangle. Thanks for telling me about it mom!

Nov 29

After reading a book I was inspired and empowered. I made a tax calculator to show the hidden taxes that are behind everyone's earnings. You're getting hit with social security & medicare twice and inflation is a *****.

I'll revisit this project because it doesn't look the greatest in the ie's (boo hiss). Hopefully you use a real browser... check it out!

Nov 26

I just read The Revolution: A Manifesto. I try to underline a bit so I can review and to give the next owner of the book a piece of my mind! Here are two excerpts:

• Until the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq had never had a suicide terrorist attack in its entire history. (p20)
• Saddam Hussein missed every single airplane for 12 years as tens of thousands of sorties were being flown indicates the utter weakness of our enemy: an impoverished Third World nation that hacked an air force, antiaircraft weapons, and a navy. This was supposed to be the great threat that required urgent action. (p24)
• Iran, incidentally, may have noticed a pattern: if countries do have a nuclear wepon, they tend to be left alone, or possibly even given a subsidy. (...) With that kind of foreign policy, what country wouldn't want to pursue a nuclear weapon? (p28)
• For heaven's sake, what kind of debate is it in which all sides agree that America needs troops in 130 countries? (p38)
• Racism is a particularly odious form of collectivism whereby individuals are treated not by their merits but on the basis of group identity. (...) Government exacerbates racial thinking and undermines individualism because its very existance encourages people to organize along racial lines in order to lobby for benefits for their group. (p64)
• (...) the military draft, an institution based on the idea that the government owns its citizens and may direct their destinies against their will. The income tax implies the same thing: the government owns you, and graciously allows you to keep whatever percentage of the fruits of your labor it chooses. Such an idea is incompatible with the principles of a free society. (p78)
• The tax code excludes health insurance from taxation when purchased by an employer, but not when purchased by an individual. In addition, the HMO Act of 1973 forced all but the smallest employers to offer HMOs to their employees. The combined result was the illogical coupling of employment and health insurance. (p88)
• Failure of the federal war on drugs should be clear enough from one simple fact: our government has been unable to keep drugs even out of prisons, which are surrounded by armed guards. (p131)
• Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been found more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. (p144)
• In order to meet our long-term entitlement obligations we would need double-digit growth rates for 75 consecutive years. When was the last time we had double digit growth for even one year? (p159)

Nov 24

I've gotten a lot better at gardening recently. I figured out what my problem was. Time. I've been hesitant to invest in this hobby because our roof is going to be inspected soon, but bold thoughs are brewing. My peas are really picking up and I learned that cucumbers are vines... who knew?!

Oct 19

I participated in the Bike Kitchen Tour de Cupcakes and had a blast. I didn't have my race manifest so I had to use my manly chest... slashhh I'm really skinny. There are more pictures of the race at BikeForums.net

Oct 11

I've been growing a lot of sprouts. They're easy to grow, cheap, and quite nutritious. I can grown 2 bowls of sprouts every 4 days for roughly 25¢. I'll write a project lauding the benifits of sprouts soon.