An Expat in London

2009

December 151
November 136
October 266
September 152
August 147
July 127
June 126
May 88
April 94
March 73
February 154
January 116

2008

June 114
May 161
April 143
March 1
February
January
Finally cleaned my room, been meaning to for ~3 years. No, not embaraased to admit it & no, not...
Jan 31st
Heading home on bus. After day we had at work (some people were laid off), David Bazan’s...
Jan 30th
Leaving Ministry of Sound near Elephant & Castle. Great DJ sets in some rooms, no doubt. Other...
Jan 30th
Another one-song-on-repeat for today. This time it’s The Killer’s song...
Jan 30th
Warch Watch
Mayfield Funds’ VC Navin Chaddha on how he invests: looks at macrotrends for entreprenuers...
Jan 30th
Here’s the screenshot of the Google Maps car striking...
Jan 30th
So that deer struck by the Google Maps car, it happened in Rush, NY, another town over from where I...
Jan 30th
Used to think talk radio was dead (for younger listeners) then I discovered Too Beautiful to Live...
Jan 29th
Friend in Chicago saying Gov. Blagojevich is now gone, it’s official. Can we get rid of...
Jan 29th
Warch Watch
It’s been a rough week. If you were in the States, Monday ended with the news that around...
Jan 29th
Sniping on eBay for some new snowboard boots. I love the thrill of the hunt. T-minus 2min before...
Jan 29th
Oh yes, ladies & gents, that’s how it’s done, eBay sniping at it’s finest....
Jan 29th
Following on @jasoncalacanis recent email on end of empathy, Times of London on oversharing yourself...
Jan 28th
I seem to eat more bacon since coming to UK, not sure why, but you ain’t seen nothin’...
Jan 28th
just loved The Killers - Human (Christian Vorbau Remix) http://hypem.com/track/649767
Jan 28th
I shouldn’t like The Killer’s song, “Human,” but it’s catchy &...
Jan 28th
Ultimate in self-absorbed ridiciulousness, via Gawker & NYT: women of Wall St. bankers blogging...
Jan 28th
From my younger brother, 2nd year law student: In “Man smears feces on his lawyer, flings it...
Jan 28th
Cooked dinner again tonight. Pasta again (hey, it’s cheap & easy) but this time with pesto...
Jan 28th
Thx to my step-sis for this link: new breed of ‘breastaurants’ competing with Hooters...
Jan 28th
It’s Wednesday and you know what that...
Jan 28th
Novelist John Updike Dies : NPR
Jan 27th
Back from gym and listening to Larry Summers discussing the economic stimulus package on Meet the...
Jan 27th
My Dad emailed me that John Updike died (we saw him speak durng my undergrad at CC). Just heard...
Jan 27th
Hilarious UK signs, which I definitely notice as an American in London http://tinyurl.com/bknb7g
Jan 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25)
Jan 25th
Watching Ice Road Truckers on the Fiver. Haven’t watched it since I left DC.
Jan 25th
RT via @alexhoye & @robhayes This shot of the inauguration is wild http://bit.ly/1P5yjL
Jan 25th
just loved Kyte - Secular Ventures (Maps Mix) http://hypem.com/track/387785
Jan 25th
just loved Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle (Metronomy remix) http://hypem.com/track/534906
Jan 25th
just loved ida maria - i like you so much better when you’re naked...
Jan 25th
just loved Beirut - Venice http://hypem.com/track/729443
Jan 25th
Listen Listen
Came across the band, Beirut, the first week back in the office, looking for new music to start the...
Jan 25th
Listen Listen
Re-blogged via fred-wilson: Rave On - M Ward - Hold Time I say rave on to this new M Ward record....
Jan 25th
Re-blogged via mediaeater:
Jan 25th
just loved Ida Maria - Going To Hell http://hypem.com/track/733541
Jan 25th
RT @TechCrunch Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation http://twurl.nl/gj26y1
Jan 25th
Listening to BBC radio, is globalization in jeopardy?Google exec (Dennis Woodside): global consumers...
Jan 25th
Overheard in Washington DC, via DCist.com, funny innaguration edition http://tinyurl.com/blxn6r
Jan 25th
http://tinyurl.com/aoecuu Why you should love Rahm Emanuel, paragraph 3
Jan 25th
just loved Jay-Z Vs. Foals - Girls Girls (Dave Wrangler Coke Balloon Mash Up)...
Jan 23rd
just loved Jay-Z vs. Foals - Girls Girls (Dave Wrangler Coke Balloon Remix)...
Jan 23rd
just loved Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I feel http://hypem.com/track/719114
Jan 22nd
Warch Watch
Via Christian Science Monitor...
Jan 22nd
“It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” Obama...”
— http://www.washingtonpost.com/w...
Jan 22nd
just loved David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones http://hypem.com/track/725860
Jan 22nd
From Too Beautiful to Live podcast 1-09-09: If the film ‘The Wrestler’ doesn’t win...
Jan 21st
Glad I happened to wear my purple tie today, seemed that everyone at Obama inauguration was wearing...
Jan 20th
Hilary Rosen, old head of the RIAA, is one of the talking heads on CNN right now
Jan 20th
RT: @davewiner The White House has a new website. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ New site looks like...
Jan 20th
Caught most of speech but both MSNBC & NPR video/audio feeds were spotty. Now the hard work...
Jan 20th
Via C-SPAN feed, could hear Don McLean’s song American Pie blasting in the Mall #inaug09
Jan 20th
C-SPAN reporting that there’s not enough room for spouses of the Congressmen and Congresswomen...
Jan 20th
Obamas leaving Blair House now #inaug09 via C-SPAN video feed
Jan 20th
RT @tweetgrid: Special TweetGrid for live-tweets of Inauguration...
Jan 20th
Electro pop group, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool , is playing Cargo in Shoreditch, Feb. 6th for free....
Jan 19th
RT @weinberg81: Fantastic Inaugural preparation pictures [from The Big Picture]. http://bit.ly/Crxg
Jan 19th
Ctaching up on podcasts. Listening to LeWeb interview w/ Fred Wilson http://is.gd/guDb
Jan 19th
A White House staffer carries a framed photograph of US...
Jan 19th
Catching up and listening to 1-7-09 podcast of Too Beautiful to Live, going through top 10 ‘08...
Jan 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18)
Jan 19th
Thanks to Inauguration concert (Obama-stock) yesterday, on John legend kick-“Save Room”...
Jan 19th
Disagreement isn’t about status with Obama like it was with Bush: David Brooks on Meet the...
Jan 18th
Bono and the boys are on now singing “In the Name of Love” and it reminds you that...
Jan 18th
Sounds like Stevie Wonder is bringing down the house along with John Legend (love his voice)...
Jan 18th
Awesome, they’re playing American Pie (don’t like this version much though) & entire...
Jan 18th
Ahh, that’s who’s singing (thanks @ev), it’s Garth Brooks doing American Pie and...
Jan 18th
Notice Will.i.am edited song “Where is the Love,” removed bit about terrorism at home w/...
Jan 18th
Listening to Obama innaguration concert via WAMU & KRCW. Jamie Foxx impression of Obama is spot...
Jan 18th
http://tinyurl.com/9t3pkz Londonist on Abeno Okonomiyaki: food porn. Yes, it’s Delicious...
Jan 17th
Hearing on KCRW for 1st time, Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip covering Vampire Weekend song.
Jan 17th
WaPo guide to NOT looking like a dumb tourist in D.C. during innaguration http://tinyurl.com/8rpbbm
Jan 17th
Best D.C. Place for innaguratuon music, 9:30 Club http://tinyurl.com/837p8l
Jan 16th
http://tinyurl.com/8mzb3a how old media is using Twitter (via @newmediajim)
Jan 15th
Off to see Slumdog Millionaire tonight at Richmix while The Streets are playing me home on the #8
Jan 15th
Fake Steve Jobs (Dan Lyons of Newsweek) rips Jim Goldman, CNBC reporter, a new one over his AAPL...
Jan 15th
just loved Beirut - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille http://hypem.com/track/668371
Jan 15th
Jeffrey Young on BBC story on Steve Jobs: Apple only marginally better than others, it’s...
Jan 15th
excited that first WIRED issue of 2009 made it to my flat, thanks Santa.
Jan 14th
Thanks @fredwilson, just discovered band, The Rural Alberta Advantage & song “The Ballad...
Jan 14th
just loved The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of The RAA http://hypem.com/track/720202
Jan 14th
just loved Why? - Simeon’s Dilemma http://hypem.com/track/561735
Jan 14th
So cattle drive on city street at last year’s Detroit Autoshow was stupid but if I hear any...
Jan 12th
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ Jay Rosen post (hat tip @davewiner) on why...
Jan 12th
If you’re like Obama & don’t know what about D.C.’s half-smoke, read...
Jan 12th
Obama and DC Mayor Fenty were at Ben’s Chili Bowl Sat. but Obama didn’t know what a...
Jan 12th
From Meet the Press, funny, completely out of context David Gregory quote: ‘one of the...
Jan 11th
Know answer but need to ask: listening to newest Meet the Press podcast, why doesn’t economy...
Jan 11th
Warch Watch
Lessig kicking ass on The Colbert Report. Man, he’s fired up taking no prisoners. Details via...
Jan 11th
chrish: One of my best college buddies is in Iraq now and...
Jan 11th
Ohh yeah, lost bag at Terminal 1 in Heathrow just arived. Amazing how big a small positive win feels...
Jan 11th
Finally recieved SMS that lost bag from last Sunday’s flight @ Heathrow (United &...
Jan 11th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11)
Jan 11th
Watching the Full Monty on the Fiver, forgot how funny and sometimes sad it can be
Jan 10th
Watching Coast on BBC2 profiling the military & coast guard based in NW Scotland, near Stornoway...
Jan 10th
http://tinyurl.com/8o4pkv More great British cuisine, squirrel is a new delicacy, via the NYT
Jan 9th
At one of my favorite London restaurants, Abeno, a Japanese...
Jan 9th
““I talk to Rahm every day,” said this source. “Neither he...”
— Via error-ridden (I know b/c...
Jan 9th
It’s a one song on loop marathan day, don’t ask me why. The Doves’ song,...
Jan 7th
just loved Kanye West - Get ‘Em High (Ratatat Remix) http://hypem.com/track/480450
Jan 6th
just loved Grizzly Bear - Knife [Girl Talk Remix] http://hypem.com/track/472373
Jan 6th
Via NYT, Paul Holland, partner at Foundation Capital: “In bad times, that’s when the...
Jan 5th
Been saving massive blog reading session for awhile, think tonight is it (AVC, Umair, Battelle,...
Jan 5th
Listening to WAMU about memetics, study of how cultural traits are passed via generations. Howard...
Jan 5th
Waiting for flight back to London (via DC and Frankfurt) and it’s a beautifully sunny day here...
Jan 4th
Arrived in London after being upgraded to Business Class on DC to Frankfurt flight, very cool even...
Jan 4th
just loved Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover)...
Jan 4th
Listened to Bob Boilen’s top 10 albums of 2008 on NPR’s All Songs Considered, good...
Jan 4th
Disturbing Kristoff NYT op-ed piece on sex slaves in Cambodia, very scary http://tinyurl.com/9twb8n
Jan 4th
I’ve entered baggage claim he’ll in Terminal 2 of Heathrow, luckily it’s called...
Jan 4th
The fixable problem isn’t the greed of the few but the misaligned interests of the many...
Jan 4th
I was wrong, lost baggage process at Heathrow was surprisingly quick, east, & painfeee. Now I...
Jan 4th
NYT op-ed: ‘The fixable problem isn’t the greed of the few but the misaligned interests...
Jan 4th
Listening to Bon Iver interview on NPR, check it out and listen to this music. UK paper named it...
Jan 4th
Bush 43- Is he the worst president of last 50 years? Oxford-style debate with Karl Rove & Bill...
Jan 4th