Archive for ‘ August, 2008 ’
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Commencement and dinner the night before
I had my seminar students at my apartment for dinner to celebrate the graduation two days ago. It has become annual tradition that I have m…
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Trip to Palo Alto
I went to Palo Alto, California, to attend the kick-off meeting of the Entrepreneurship in Japan Project at Stanford. The meeting was v…
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Too much reliance on technology?
One of the members who were at the golf trip to Kamloops was a computer scientist with the several-year career experience with Electronic …
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The World is Flat?
I encountered the phenomenon of “The World is flat” the other day. I have heard of it, but did not have a chance to realize it. I was tryi…
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Meeting people through golf!
I have met with quite a few people, playing golf in Whistler. There are programs such as Ladies’ Night, Nine and Dine etc. offered at the G…
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Watching Olympics in British Columbia
As I am still in British Columbia(photo of beautiful blue sky seen from the window of the unit I am renting), I watch Beijing Olympics her…
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Bear story continues!
Yesterday morning, when I was driving to the lake where I jog, I picked up a girl hitch hiker. I usually do not pick up hitch hiker, but I…
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Significance of location?
While I spend most of my waking hours writing (and some for exercise-whether cardio-photo shows how I look like with new sneakers! when I r…