Making a consultation appointment at Home Depot ( Read more... )

I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View the other day. It was Steve Blank's "The Secret History of Silicon Valley." Some fascinating trivia along the way ( Read more... )

"The problem with having Obama as president is that now TV shows and movies can't use a Black president to indicate they're taking place in the future."

"Google is obviously the greatest technology ever invented for navel-gazing. It's just that there are so many other people in your navel when you gaze."

- Steven Johnson, author, on Googling a common name

(Also: he's a little dreamy and a lot married.)

More adorable feedback from a recent class ( Read more... )

Mom: Oh no! Paul Newman died?

Abby: Who's Paul Newman.

Mom: He's a famous actor, "Old Blue Eyes."

Abby: Huh?

Eva: *Sigh* So you know the salad dressing...

Abby: Newman's Own! Oh no! The salad dressing guy died!

College advising can be so hard when you have to address requests like the following, which a fellow college adviser emailed me about:

She needs to identify "colleges with strong fashion design major for a golfer with LD [a learning disability]/ADD."

A student of mine doing medical research made the following observation:

"In Oakland they have an obesity clinic. In Palo Alto they have an anorexia clinic."

Ah, out of the mouths of babes.

Reading my surveys from last week's class:

Q: How could the instructor's presentation have been improved?

A: Ninja outfit

A student showed up to class today wearing a shirt for a metal band called--wait for it--MESHUGGAH.