After almost four years of on-and-off blogging, it's time to put together yet another Reader's Digest. The earlier ones can be found here, here, here and here.

Major Events . . . My "adult" life so far . . . In memory of Hansa . . . On turning 33 . . . Wedding photos . . . Resume '05 . . . Resume '07

Weekly Schedules . . . Summer 2005 . . . Late ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was walking down Market Street in front of Westfield Mall when I saw one of those sidewalk stands promoting voter registration on behalf of Mr. Obama. The table was manned by a guy with a big smile who was enthusiastically exchanging buttons and bumper stickers "for a small donation of $3 ( Read more... )

After our second cross country adventure last year, I uploaded a map with all three of our coast-to-coast routes.

A couple of days ago I finished putting together another one that includes every major driving trip that Anna and I did together. Last year I also drafted a somewhat less precise map of all of the roads that I remember taking ever ( Read more... )

I grew up as an only child. I didn't even have any cousins who lived in the same city. Nor did I ever have pets of my own. My grandfather had a small white mutt of a dog for a time, and I got really attached to him, but after a couple of years he suddenly disappeared. He probably got run over by a car, since he liked to chase them so much, but ( Read more... )

All throughout the primary season, I was religiously following Jay Cost on RealClearPolitics.com. His phenomenal skills at extracting every last bit of useful information out of the voting results and exit polls are second to none. Check out his data rich four part demographics review of how Obama prevailed over Clinton ( Read more... )

There is this good old barber in some city in the US. One day a florist goes to him for a haircut. After the cut, he goes to pay the barber and the barber replies:

'I am sorry. I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service.'The florist is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, there is a ( Read more... )

"Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV... Only a third of women would make the same trade."Now, if the said TV costs about £800 in the U.K. and we conservatively assume that Britons have sex twice a month, what it means is that men value a single count of intercourse at no more than ( Read more... )

New York seems so far away now. After almost three months in California, it's time to look back at what has happened here so far:

Weekend of...DatesLocation(s)ActivitiesVia...July2121,22Reno, NV / San Francisco, CAArrived late in the evening on Saturday after 22 Days on the Road. Took a walk around our new neighborhood and went to a local ( Read more... )

A good friend from my favorite Alma Mater, Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, just contacted me over Facebook to ask how I've been doing. So I decided to write back to her with some details of what has happened to me over the last 11 years. Before long, I came up with this slightly sugar-coated version of my life since college.

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