Quote of the Day...

For the American public, AIG now stands for “arrogance, incompetence and greed,”
Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H.

Haikus Are Fun...

I wrote an iPhone haiku on twitter for fun which iPhone Disapora put up on their website. Check it out if you're bored.

Snow Ninjas...

A little belated but here's a pic from the Colorado trip. The rest of the pictures can be found under "Out and About" in my Every Day Gallery courtesy of Vu.


The story behind the vests are Vu decided it would be cool if we all had "uniforms." So he headed down to Home Depot and bought us all reflective work vests. We got stares and comments from them all weekend, which was probably his intent as well. It definitely made finding each other on the slopes super easy. Safety first right? All in all, it was a great trip. Flip cup champion ships. Pots and pans jam session. Three days of boarding at three different resorts. MTV Cribs style cabin with heated floors. Mexican fiesta. Being doped up on ibuprofen about 90% of the time. Can't wait till the next adventure. Mad props to DJ Vu for putting the whole thing together.

Juggling...

Life, for me at least, is this constant struggle to keep a bunch of different things in the air. The moment I take my focus off one thing and switch to another, something drops. I start messing around with twitter and I don't update this blog as much. I spend too much time reading and watching current events/politics and my personal reading drops off. I try to cook more for myself and my work outs dip. Some are able to strike the balance very easily, while others have to struggle with it, continually tweaking until some sort of equilibrium is found. I definitely fall into the latter category. I'll strive to do better.

At Least We're Not Iceland...

You thought America has it rough? Check out the situation in Iceland.

Global financial ambition turned out to have a downside. When their three brand-new global-size banks collapsed, last October, Iceland’s 300,000 citizens found that they bore some kind of responsibility for $100 billion of banking losses—which works out to roughly $330,000 for every Icelandic man, woman, and child. On top of that they had tens of billions of dollars in personal losses from their own bizarre private foreign-currency speculations, and even more from the 85 percent collapse in the Icelandic stock market. The exact dollar amount of Iceland’s financial hole was essentially unknowable, as it depended on the value of the generally stable Icelandic krona, which had also crashed and was removed from the market by the Icelandic government. But it was a lot.