juniper lane and coldplay
The crazy weekend never stops. As I’m riding the bus back from NY I get some awesome news that Ashley has extra tickets to go see Coldplay at Verizon center tonight.
Seeing Coldplay is going to be awesome but its going to be even cooler to see friends, juniper lane, as the opening act. They won a contest on dc101 so this is a huge break. I’ll have pics and video tomorrow.
update: Pictures post here.
from the road
hey everyone. Excuse my extended absence lately. I’ve been quite occupied. This is the first time I’ve ever posted from my phone but it seems approriate. For the next couple months I will be traveling every weekend except one and won’t have a free weekend until October.
This weekend I’m headed up to NY to visit an old friend. In a few weeks I’m starting on my first trip to Europe since highschool when I went to London. I’ll be hittin Paris, Berlin, and dodging bombs in istanbul. Along the way I also plan on dropping in on krakow, Poland. It should be a busy and interesting time leading up to the best season of the year: fall.
I’m sure I’ll be updating my Flickr photostream a lot more often than this Blog with pics from my mobile. Until next time!
Xobni: For the Outlook Stats Junkie
I just installed the Xobni plugin for MS Outlook, and it’s amazing. It gives me stats such as how many emails I send and receive by hour, by person, median time to respond and many more stats. Even if you aren’t interested in all that stuff, install it because it adds search capabilities that destroy Outlook’s offering (aka, you can find relevant emails to your search!). I’ve literally only been using this plug-in for only 30 minutes, but it’s already made Outlook that much more tolerable. Definitely try it out if you’re looking for a better Outlook experience.
Photo Blog
This is a friendly reminder to check out my photo-blog. The new one up today is of the very photogenic Wolftrap venue from onstage after the Bruce Horsnby show.
Nat’s Game [6.20.08]
Went to the Nat’s game on Friday. Weather was perfect. Ben’s Chili Bowl was had, a rare 14th inning stretch, and we won 4-3 in the bottom of the 14th.
Dominion Electric Outages
I think that I’m on the areas worst power grid ever, because my electricity basically goes out when I sneeze. Even when I rented in N. Arlington I ended up losing power every time the wind blew. Can someone fix this (Dominion Electric?!)? I lost power for almost two days from the storm a week or two ago, and then again for a day from Monday’s storm. Luckily I didn’t have to throw away much food. This is a huge downer because everything fun in my house runs on electricity. Books are alright I guess, but Mariokart Wii is infinitely more fun.
Partly for myself for reference, but I’m sure someone out there has been looking for this…an official outages map and number of people affected straight from the horses mouth:
Outages in VA Map
Outages in Northern VA Map
# Affected Table
JK Rowling on Risks & Failure
Harvard gets the greatest commencement speakers (if you haven’t seen Conan O’Brien’s Harvard commencement speech, check it out…). This year, JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, gave the speech. While it wasn’t with as many zingers as Conan’s, she has some great life advice…
…some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
-JK Rowling
Bowling at Lucky Strike
Bowling at Lucky Strike, originally uploaded by jchin1.
Went bowling last night at Lucky Strike. A lot of fun, but would’ve been better had they worked out their lack of AC problem.
