So, I guess Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn are staying at my hotel in Kauai. Well, I don't guess, I know. My family ate dinner next to them at this small little restaurant in Hanale'i (yes, the land where Puff the Magic Dragon is from). This was one of a number of encounters I've had with the couple today ( Read more... )

I just peed next to Jerry O'Connell. (Perhaps) more on that later.

I have decided that this summer, I will produce an album under the moniker "artist". The album will be called "title", thus filed as "artist - title". I will sell it on Amazon just to confuse their DBAs. I'm not sure what it will sound like yet, but it will most certainly be challenging to listen to. Take *that*, Sigur Ros.

So I depart for Hawaii in 25 hours and I haven't even begun packing. This has been a crazy yet fruitful last couple of weeks. Finals are over and I'm really starting to get into real work (finally). Unfortunately, by the time I get back from Hawaii, I'll only have a month left at the IBM Innovation Center. There's still hope that they'll have ( Read more... )

Oh, also, I met Maggie Gyllenhaal yesterday. She's filming a movie across the street from my apartment. That was teh awesome.

This is the coolest thing I've seen all year:

The National Geographic/IBM Genegraphic Project

Press Conference Here.

I think I can convince my boss at IBM to let me beta test this just based on my rarity of my gene pool alone. I'm really curious.

All things being equal, one has no control over the expectations and desires of other people -- their nature, the way they understand the world, how they interpret the thoughts of others, what they try to get others to do, how they feel, who they are... these things are the fundamentally within the control of the individual at all times ( Read more... )

ACTOR IN FEATURE ROLE: Bill Murray - LOST IN TRANSLATION ( Read more... )

3 days til San Francisco! w00t!

      Marriage is love.Today, George Bush announced his support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage of a Federal level. In a time where marriage is getting less and less popular, and *staying* married is even less popular than that, why would banning a certain people from getting married be seen as a positive step forward in ( Read more... )