Jack in the Box

DanCeeCee says....

Hello again. Greetings from Palo Alto. I'm staying here in a house of D'02's + 05 Tim Millikin (don't ask, I'm not sure even I completely understand the chain of events that finds me here), biding my time until I move into an apartment in Oakland. Teaming up with Karla Kingsley on the housing front, while Will and Hoff-funkadelik go in together with Aekta and Crank in San Fran.

The drive out was easy enough. Got to spend a night at Casa Nelson in Hinsdale and see the Golden/Boulder crew in CO (including a rousing night of flipcup and self-administered breathalizer tests to celebrate MJ's birthday - turns out the blood-alcohol gizmo only instills an element of competition into the party, not the caution it should). oh, and lest I forget, Will and I crashed a party with the Young Scandinavian Club of Northern California(!) at their Tahoe chalet. Never have I felt more dark-haired in my life.

But more importantly, everyone should check out this shameless parody of SNL's Dick-in-a-box video.

www.wallstrip.com

If you're going to the site after today (1/29) you'll have to search for "jack in the box." This site is my new web discovery - I think it's going to make me hip, funny, and a millionaire all in one easy swoop. See, being unemployed, I have time for this kind of self-improvement. The Apple clip is worth checking out also; as are, well, probably most everything they have.

And finally, in the interest of community engagement, I'd like to hear people's picks for the Super Bowl. I am, without question, going with Laura and . . . da Bears! For nothing simpler than I must stay true to the Great Lakes industrial cities (that's right, the Rust Belt).

keep on rockin,
Dan

Drinkin Time

So I was steered to this video by Kate Lyon and since I found it entertaining thought I would use some newly acquired technical skills (aka posting video knowledge) to share it with all of you. Hope this works.

In other news I got to see Dan for a short bit on his trip west. He stopped by to crash for the night at the Nelson household as he was driving from Cleveland to Boulder. It was a brief visit but good to see him none the less. I'm looking forward to hearing how everyone's adjustment to San Fran is going.

As for news from me, I have decided to go back to the boat I was working on last fall when the program starts up again in March. So its back to Stamford and Long Island Sound and educating the youth of the area about marshes and sea creatures. And there's nothing like a group of inner city non-english speakers in the morning and then greenwich kids in the afternoon to keep you on your toes. I'm also planning on making a little trip up to hanover for carnival and hoping to also stick around for a day or two afterwards with the hopes of skiing a bit but I guess the snow will kind of dictate that. So if you're in the area (mike, james, nell...) get your work done early cause I want to play. So hopefully I will see many of you soon and also recall my skating lessons from last year cause occum pond and some elementary school kids' pick-up hockey game isn't going to know what hit them.

Laura

Paul Marino's Blog

Luke

Hi -
If you know Paul Marino, you'll get a kick out of his blog. If you don't know him, he's great - just read. Aside from being one of the few, the proud, the Dartmouth bark beetle ecologists, Paul is also a writer, has in the past been the host on a pilot show in Venezuela in which he traveled around to beaches talking about sea turtles, and has been a field tech in Spain. Check out his posts "Mite Doctor" (a film about Tarsonemids, alright!), "Science," and "Life in the South". They're pretty good.

http://www.grannyballzentertainment.blogspot.com/

Luke

Happy '07!

Will

Hey all, just wanted to wish everyone a happy New Year and let you all in on my plans for 2007.

The big news is obviously my move to San Francisco. I'll be working for an organization called Net Impact. This is what Net Impact has to say about itself:
"Net Impact is the premier membership organization of emerging business leaders committed to socially responsible business. Most of our 10,000 members are MBA students and young professionals; Net Impact’s 130+ chapters are located in business schools and cities across the globe. Net Impact runs programs and services to provide members with information and resources on utilizing business to create a better world."
The position is right up my alley and I'm pretty excited.

I start on January 31, so I'll be leaving to drive out there sometime in the next week and hopefully getting to San Francisco around the 20th. I'm definitely planning on stopping in Boulder (and in Asheville if you're around, Molly) to do some skiing and hanging out. If you live in the aforementioned cities, you'll hear from as soon as I get my travel schedule figured out, which will hopefully be pretty soon.

I've accepted an offer from Potter to crash on his couch for a while when I get to San Fran - I've heard from many sources that Chez Potter is a pretty sweet place. After I get my bearings, I'll be connecting with Danders and Karla Kingsley/ Hoffman and friends to look for an appartment. Sick!

Hopefully I'll be settling in soon after my job starts. Once that happens I can focus on using my Kirkwood season pass and reconsidering plans I once had to climb Denali and travel in Shanghai. Anyone interested? (You know who you are).

Oh yeah, and my New Year's resolution is to learn Spanish. If I'm not greeting you appropriately by March, feel free to berate me.

Will