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Assorted thoughts:
  • Palo Alto smells like jasmine, and there are copious plants on every block.

  • Except where it smells like rosemary. Ibid.

  • Melons taste amazing here. As do apricots and some peaches. And for those who can't wait for the farmers' market on Sunday, you can taste-test everything at Whole Foods. And by "those" I mean me.

  • Work is so much better when the thing you're working on it the thing you used to procrastinate with.

  • I live a block away from a designated "bike boulevard" with barriers to auto traffic and almost no stop signs. And approximately 0.1% grade.

  • Being surrounded by smart, funny, social engineers is a rare privilege.

  • Assassination of a high school president is a great movie. Bruce Willis makes a delightfully insane school principal. Though it has the outstanding Brick and Rushmore as peers it its genre of cheeky underdog high school nerdlingness, it holds its own. And has a better soundtrack.
June 05, 2008 : 12:00 AM
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