O (in his traditional Vietnamese ao dai gown and in front of a flag from Vietnam): C (opening up her 4th birthday card): H (and his 1st birthday cake): Get this damn hat off of me:

Just a quick post to say that I am home in the U.S.  It’s currently Monday night, about 7:25pm EST and I’m at my mom’s in Georgia.  I left Vietnam on Thursday morning, September 25th, and flew from HCMC to Taipei, Taiwan, onto Los Angeles, and then finally to Atlanta.  A very long flight – [...]

I take a break from what I like to call grading hell to post these photos that my buddy Aaron emailed to me recently. Back in 2005, we found some website where you could upload a photo of yourself and it would show you what you would look like: (a) normal; (b) old; (c) Hindu; [...]

Joanna Newsom, The Sprout and the Bean: I slept all day awoke with distaste and I railed, and I raved That the difference between the sprout and the bean is a golden ring, it is a twisted string. And you can ask the counsellor; you can ask the king; and they’ll say the same thing; [...]

One word: Grading. Damn I have a lot of grading to do. Oh well, I will get it done. After grading all day Saturday, Thao and I went for a swim at the pool at my gym and then went out to eat. That night, we watched a scary movie called “The Strangers” starring Liv [...]

Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address – May 21, 2005David Foster Wallace (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to goahead, because I’m sure going to. In fact I’m gonna [mumbles whilepulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].)Greetings ["parents"?] and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating classof 2005. There [...]

Well, I am in the midst of grading hell right now. I have a ton of ComLaw finals to grade – 218 to be precise (it was supposed to be 219 but one student didn’t show up for the exam), plus all of my Business Enterprise I (business plan development) plans to grade. I’ve made [...]

When Rudy and Hayley blew through Saigon in 24 hours or so a couple of months ago, they showed up with some serious-looking Nikon cameras and equipment. They’ve finally gotten some of their photos up and, as I suspected would be the case, they managed to take better photos in their 24 hours here than [...]

Yesterday morning I retried filming my commute from a camera mounted on my motorbike’s handlebars. It turned out it wasn’t the battery going dead en route – it was my memory card filling up. But I still was able to capture about 5/6ths or so of my commute. I don’t expect anyone to watch the [...]

This is a nice live performance of this song. I haven’t listened to the Sky Blue Sky album much since it first came out, but this sounds nice to me now: *Jeff Tweedy may have supplanted Roy Orbison as the new “Dr. Ugly.” Tweedy looks like a cross between a caveman and . . . [...]