Thursday, June 4, 2009
Blinker the Star
On this really cool website www.songza.com I was able to find some music from a band I heard a long time ago on 107.7 The End in Seattle. When Marco Collins was the night DJ he would play some new music that he thought was cool, some of it ended up being sort of big like "Harvey Danger" others like "Blinker the Star" never reached their full brilliance on the national stage. This song "My Dog" was really cool, and until now I couldn't find it online, http://songza.com/~1gc2r9
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Danzin in Beijing
There were many moments which made this trip unforgettable. I wish I had a better video. You see this in many parks and public areas in China. Groups of people doing some coordinated dance to the rythem of a boom box.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The road more traveled
It's been difficult to decide where to go since I started working for an airline. When the actual flying portion of the trip is relatively inexpensive, there is a strange feeling of empowerment which comes with strings attached. First off, flying as a standby passenger has limitations. While it is cheap and often free, you are also the first piece of cargo to be jettisoned if the flight fills up with real customers. So while going 'anywhere' may be possible, 'anytime' can be the difficult thing, so one must select airports to travel to in off-peak season times. In the current global economy, traffic to China has slowed a good deal.
In traveling through China and seeing the Great Wall and Forbidden City and other famous must see places, it's easy to start feeling like the views and experiences you are absorbing are very similar to those of literally millions (and potentially billions more). Richard Nixon travelled to this same part of the Great Wall in his trip to China in 1972, I guess I never would have thought we had the same travel tastes.
Bicycling through Beijing, is awesome. While dangerous and a bit frightening at times, I would highly recommend this to anyone who can handle themselves on a bike. The hostel we stayed at actually offered free bike rental, and I saw this as an opportunity to experience Beijing as much of the population of Beijing does everyday.
At Wangfujing there is a snack street, which is famous for having grilled scorpions, starfish and other exotic things on sticks, in fact offers many tasty treats for the more westernized tongue. I ate candied pineapple and grapes, along with grilled squid, lamb and chicken and some others. All in all the place has a variety of tasty things to try, and a great place to pull back some of your food inhibitions. We found lots of good food in the streets all around Beijing. All that said, I realize going to an open eatery loaded with tourists the same day a swine flu case was confirmed in China, is probably not the safest thing. But at least I have lived to blog about it.
In traveling through China and seeing the Great Wall and Forbidden City and other famous must see places, it's easy to start feeling like the views and experiences you are absorbing are very similar to those of literally millions (and potentially billions more). Richard Nixon travelled to this same part of the Great Wall in his trip to China in 1972, I guess I never would have thought we had the same travel tastes.
Bicycling through Beijing, is awesome. While dangerous and a bit frightening at times, I would highly recommend this to anyone who can handle themselves on a bike. The hostel we stayed at actually offered free bike rental, and I saw this as an opportunity to experience Beijing as much of the population of Beijing does everyday.
At Wangfujing there is a snack street, which is famous for having grilled scorpions, starfish and other exotic things on sticks, in fact offers many tasty treats for the more westernized tongue. I ate candied pineapple and grapes, along with grilled squid, lamb and chicken and some others. All in all the place has a variety of tasty things to try, and a great place to pull back some of your food inhibitions. We found lots of good food in the streets all around Beijing. All that said, I realize going to an open eatery loaded with tourists the same day a swine flu case was confirmed in China, is probably not the safest thing. But at least I have lived to blog about it.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
It's been a couple of months since I have posted anything. I guess I have been somewhat productive in the meantime. I have tried to make good use of www.google.com/finance since the makets have been so diminished, and so full of opportunities the last couple of months. It appears my last posting did not stimulate much of a response judging from the 0 comments it recieved. So my next post should be something a bit more controversial.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
AHEAD OF THE CURVE
I try not to make boring entries of each book I have read recently, but its still fun to self indulge in a bit of that. This book fascinated me almost instantaneously due at least in part to my University BYU-Idaho (almost anyone reading this blog already knows this of course) recieving Dean of Harvard Business School Kim Clark as University President in 2005. I was increasingly fascinated by the school (Business school and every other school attached to the Harvard name) and materialized itself more and more as a real institution as I saw the personification of the qualities it represented in Kim Clark during many meetings and events I attended on campus.
The concept the title is demonstrative enough--- HBS students are at the top end of the curve, so even the lowest performers (bottom 25th percentile) are far ahead of nearly all students at other business schools. The book is focused on what its like for a non-business/journalist to go struggle through 2 years of rigourous business training in classes with image crazed over achievers.
The concept the title is demonstrative enough--- HBS students are at the top end of the curve, so even the lowest performers (bottom 25th percentile) are far ahead of nearly all students at other business schools. The book is focused on what its like for a non-business/journalist to go struggle through 2 years of rigourous business training in classes with image crazed over achievers.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Cocio
I noticed this chocolate milk called Cocio at Target, I was in the mood for some so I bought it. Its all naturual milk, chocolate and sugar freshly made in Denmark. In 1950 a Danish guy named Anker Pallesen came to America and tried chocolate milk during his visit. He returned to Denmark and tried a bunch of formulas and discovered the secret was in using fresh ingredients.
It was different at first, but by the I was actually what I found other people were saying on their website "its the best chocolate milk I have ever had"
and they have some really fresh ads and vids right here: http://cociousa.com/index.html
It was different at first, but by the I was actually what I found other people were saying on their website "its the best chocolate milk I have ever had"
and they have some really fresh ads and vids right here: http://cociousa.com/index.html
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Hong Kong pics
A night view of Hong Kong from Kowloon Bay. We took a few shots and this was the best one...
Hong Kong from up on the hillside
A couple Korea Pics
This was at a small art studio in the Insadong area of Seoul
Flora was very excited about this bowl of ice cream mixed with kiwi, oranges, bananas, marshmallow type things ice and chocolate. When I ate it I thought it was just about the best dessert I have ever had.
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