Today is the 32nd anniversary of my birth.  It is also the fourth anniversary of my wedding.  But this post isn’t about those things – it’s about what happened five years ago today, on October 6, 2006.
But to tell that (very long) story, I need to properly set the scene.  I proposed to Courtney in [...]

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For today’s post, here’s a collection of fun little odds and ends that I’ve stumbled upon recently.
First, there’s this very in-depth, head-to-head battle between the hamburgers of Shake Shack, Five Guys, and In-N-Out. These guys take their hamburgers VERY seriously, and I respect that.
If you want to freak yourself out, read this article about the [...]

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There is no denying it – Cornell is officially a bracket buster in the NCAA tournament!  First, on Friday, they beat Temple in a great upset.  Then, yesterday, they beat the fourth-seeded Wisconsin to advance to the Sweet Sixteen!  They are the first Ivy League school to make it this far in the Tourney since [...]

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So, there is no way for me to write this post and NOT be accused of being a pompous jerk, but whatever, here it goes anyway.
Every now and again, someone will refer to a non Ivy League school as an Ivy League institution. They don’t mean anything malicious about it, they just have their [...]

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Many thanks to everyone who posted, emailed, and called to wish me a happy birthday and/or me and wifey a happy first anniversary. Great times were had upstate: we made a few trips to Ithaca Bakery/Collegetown Bagels, who we still love even though they screwed up our order – twicer, we stocked up on [...]

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Photo credit: Cornell Alumni Magazine
So I was reading Cornell Alumni Magazine the other day – yeah, I like to keep up on my alma mater, you got a problem with that? – and they had an interesting article on the future of the campus. You know, about how they can expand and improve and modernize [...]

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