The Sunol Exit

I travel 30 miles to work everyday. I like looking out the window to see California through its freeways, exits, gas stations, and bridges. It is a stark difference to the gray pavement that goes on endlessly in the New Jersey turnpike, peppered only sometimes by the occasional spindly tree or a flock of malicious pigeons. Nope, in California its different. Crossing the Dumbarton Bridge, sometimes when the tides are low there is a tiny island about a meter in diameter jutting off of the placid (and clean!) water. Sometimes I like to pretend that it were my island and I were two inches long and I can sleep there, nestled by the grass everyday, eating worms for breakfast, and having the best life ever.

I know that we've almost reached the Pleasanton exit when we've reached the Sunol foothills. The grass is a golden yellow, almost like long dog's fur. I'd like to pretend that the mountain was a giant creature's sleeping mass and that by the time I start workign, the giant wakes up and eats the passing drivers. Its a good thing I'm nestled here safely in my air conditioned cubicle, listening to the radio, and plowing the day away.

Just a Rant

I dont like racial jokes.

Steve Jobs' speech and Jon's ideas on hair

I finally read the transcript of Steve Jobs' speech . It was a really good speech and with my previous string of unemployment and failed job interviews, 4-mile long bike rides to home, and sometimes, general starving-to-death type deal i've been subjected to, the speech really resonated with me. Go check it out. One of the best commencement speeches I've heard. Definitely better than Sandra Day O'Connors and definitely better than that Peruvian president from last year.

On a lighter note, I gave Jon a haircut today. He had a theory on why people go bald. He said that maybe some hairs are male and some hairs are female. Supposedly the females just die out when you turn 40 or so and so the males have no one to have sex and reproduce with. I wonder why it starts from the middle outward. There must be some sort of hair-killing STD or something that starts from the middle of the head. Well Jon says also that people's messing with their front hairs also propogates the "death" of these female hairs. Its all very confusing and still a theory right now. But you know, just a thought.