Wow that was a pretty good episode of The Shield tonight!

A Long Island Solution to Far East Stress - New York Times

As of last year, the overall Great Neck school population was 20 percent Asian. At Great Neck South High School, one of two high schools in the district, the Asian population was more than 30 percent.

“Could we become a majority Asian district in 10 years?” mused Ronald Friedman, the superintendent of Great Neck schools. “Who knows? It’s possible.”

Uh oh… is my old high school of Great Neck South going to become Cupertino and suffer from the new flavor of White Flight? Will all the bagels and bialys be replaced with cha siu bao?

One thing’s for sure- the old saying “you can’t go home again” is certainly true.

$4xx to replace the front brakes and rotors.

And then… a ticket from the Los Altos police department. It say that the infraction occured during “dusk”. But at 7:50pm, it was clearly night (6:20 pm was the end of visible light according to the Navy.) Do I have a case?

Hm.

Lunch 2.0 ? Welcome to Lunch 2.0!

a social phenomenon referring to a migration of web 2.0 company employees to other offices around the Silicon Valley area; characterized by open communication, decentralization of authority, freedom to share food and ideas, and “the lunch as a conversation”

I’m so subscribed!

Ah, finally I’m home after my misadventures in BOS airport.

The flight from JFK-SFO took 7.5 hours due to weather delays in SFO, the flight was supposed to take 6.5 hours, and 6 during the summer. For that amount of time, I could’ve gone to London Heathrow from JFK.

But I’m home. And I even have a working SIM card so I have cell phone service again. (Using payphones is expensive!!)

So… that’s that!

Sorry for this ultra blurry photo - it’s hard taking a photo while driving!

Emily is the sister of Sarah Hughes, who, in turn, is also a cousin of radio shock jock Greg “Opie” Hughes; host of XM’s the Opie and Anthony show. They’re from Great Neck North - the rivals of Great Neck South, where I went.

Wow, the wikipedia entry for Sarah has some more interesting info:

Before the 2002 Olympics, her parents, both Cornell University alumni, contacted James Maas, one of their former professors at Cornell, author of Power Sleep and noted sleep psychologist. During their meeting, Maas learned of their daughter Sarah and her training regimen. He suggested that, in order to improve her skating, for two weeks, she should sleep nine hours a night, every night, even if this meant training less. As Maas recounts every year for his Psychology 101 class, her skating abilities noticably improved within two weeks. Convinced, Hughes continued this sleeping regimen throughout her training period. Maas cites Hughes as one of his examples of why sleeping is very important.

Sleep is important!

One of the few upsides of today’s travels was this nify photo of Manhattan that I took while on the jet from Baltimore to Boston:

(click on it to see a larger version)

Well… I also took this photo but I’m not nearly as proud of it as the one above:

Ah, the airlines that fly to BWI…

My flight from BWI-BOS arrived 1 hour late, and I missed my connection from BOS to SFO! Because it’s a holiday weekend (it’s a holiday? I didn’t know - I’m not getting Monday off.) all the flights are full. My next guaranteed flight is on Sunday apparently.

Looks like I’ll be sitting at BOS all weekend on standby. And without a cell phone!

Update 1: So the reason that my flight from Baltimore to Boston was held was due to high winds. Apparently winds were so bad that an American Eagle plane had its windshield cracked on take off in Boston. Yipes.

But because it is weather related, they won’t pay for a hotel room for me. So I got them to fly me to NY where I’ll stay with my parents for the night and then go from JFK-SFO in the evening on Saturday.

Bad Weather and Winter Break are working against me.

Update 2: Well now I’m in NY. I’m semi-guaranteed a flight from JFK-SFO at 932pm on Saturday. I’m going to cross my fingers and try for standby for the 715am. Wish me luck.