Deep Thoughts

If there are so many Google exercise balls at Google, how come everyone there doesn't have great abs.

Sun Ad

I made it to Sun's new campaign, even though I don't work there anymore.

You know you are getting old when...

your girlfriend's younger sister, who doesn't seem that much younger has the hots for Haley Joel Osment and Ron Weasley (the actor of Harry Potter).

Going Maps Crazy

The one thing that I love about Google.... scratch that... I love everything about them so far, but the maps integrations that I have seen are absolutely fabulous. I think that there is a blog about all the cool maps stuff.

I think that Microsoft has a competing maps thing going on, but I won't give you any of their links because Microsoft sucks.

Another One Bites The Dust

And I mean this title in a completely impotent way. My friend from my fraternity just got married today and it was great to be at his wedding. He married his long time girlfriend from Berkeley and I hope that they have a wonderful life together. It was great to see a couple of old fraternity friends again and catch up a little. We all had our main flames there, which was sweet. Ryan gave the Mountain Dew award winning toast to the groom. I think that we had a bet going on to see who would be the first to get married. I think that Todd said I would. Well, that was completely wrong. But all in good time my friends. I'm lucky to have a good one now, so all in good time.

Lawyers, lawyers

I went to a law firm party earlier today. It was at this very nice house in Orinda owned by a partner at a large law firm in San Francisco. There was food, drinks, a very nice outside patio area, and good company. My friend Mia took me there. It was very fun to hang out with her regular crew and meet some attorneys and aspiring attorneys. I think that I was the only techy there, but I certainly didn't feel out of place. The world of law looks interesting to me. I wonder if I'll ever get there in my life. Right now, it's business school on my mind though.

Harry Potter Release

Last night was the Harry Potter Release party at many bookstores around the area. I hit up one in San Mateo with my girlfriend, Liz, and her friend. These two are crazy Harry Potter fanatics and I was along for the ride. It was quite interesting no doubt. Although most of the guests at the party were kids from 7 to 17, a couple people were mid twenties or even thirties. I guess Harry Potter is good enough for all to enjoy. I myself am reading it but I am still just 3/4 of the way through the fourth book and it seems like I have a long way to go still.

What else did I learn? I learned that there are many websites out there dedicated to discussing theories, the purpose of the characters, what ship people are on, and the possible foreshadowing of Rowling to the occurences in the later books. As if I didn't know, I was reminded of the obsession that the world has for Harry Potter. I think it's great to have such an excitement. For some reason, I get mine at work these days.

Regardless, I was happy to be a part of such a huge, yet segmented, event.

War of the Worlds

Wow! What a movie. It was the most action packed movie I have ever seen I think. I don't know if the plot was all that interesting however, you can hardly care because you are so stressed with suspense, waiting for the next big disaster to happen. I guess that this is a good movie for Tom Cruise and Dakota to be in. They will really spur on their careers... not that they need to.

Discovered Shane's post

The cutout story

Moving from LiveJournal

So, I finally got around to moving over my blog entries from LiveJournal to Google. I thought that I would support Google a little more. I wonder if there is an easy way of exporting blogs from LiveJournal. I guess that I didn't really worry about it since I only had about five postings.

Martinez fireworks... the place to go. There was very little traffic / hassle getting there and getting away from there, and the fireworks show was great. It was about 10 feet from our heads and ash even fell on the crowd. This is also the first 4th of July I have spent in the US with a significant other. That made it terrific.

It's nice to get the day after the fourth off as well. Hell, it's nice to get any day off.