The Boston Red Sox take the 2007 World Series!! I’m so excited!!!
I can finally wash my red Red Sox socks.
I wore it every night to bed during the World Series and vowed not to wash it until they took the title – even if the 86-year curse of the Bambino came back.
OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration…
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LA Times reports that a ceratin demographic is upset that the Internet-giant is not patriotic.
Do these people have nothing else to do???
And if Google goes against your beliefs, use another search engine for heaven’s sake! In case these people haven’t heard… America is a free country.
On a similar note… I’m part of a committee for a Google Alumni night at work. And we got turned down for a Google logo incorporating our mascot.
But do you hear me complaining?
Read moreI saw this random lady standing in front of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo.
I thought her “Free Hugs” sign was her way of protesting the Meiji-era war heroes enshrined at Meiji-Jingu.
Turns out, she was promoting the Free Hugs Campaign, to which my usually stone-cold heart has warmed to:
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So anyone who wants it, I’ve got free hugs to give away!
Read morePablo says that I often like to live in the past.
It’s true.
My memories of everything from toddler-hood through college are so vivid in my mind. I remember everything from contributing to a drowning of another three year old friend, to getting lost at the LA Convention Center, and even the ER visit where I passed out from scromboid poisoning.
But apparently, someone like me who remembers such things in details over and over… is not really remembering the event as accurately as someone who has had amnesia and all of a sudden remembers a memory 20 years later.
Memory is malleable and like metal, the more you play with it, the more you weaken it.
Who knew. I always thought that because I would replay a memory in my head over and over again, I was in essence preserving it.
Elizabeth Loftus (who I’ve met through my work affiliation) is featured in the “Memory and Forgetting” podcast of Radio Lab.
Check it out… it makes you wonder… really wonder if you really lived the past or…
Read moreI’m bummed that I can’t make mixed tapes anymore.
It used to mean something when you spent the time looking for songs and (illegally) recorded them onto cassette tapes on a boom box. Or even burning .wav or .mp3 CDs before the iPod. The former could take hours to perfect…
I started to make a mix-playlist in iTunes to send to Pablo. Then decided it was lame and not as sentimental to “drag-and-drop” to mix my songs. Plus mixed tapes had a definite order – no sortability – so you could send a message in the sequence of songs.
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