This past Saturday I went to watch Stanford men’s volleyball team (No. 8) play BYU (No. 4) at Maples Pavilion. Like all Stanford men’s volleyball games, it was free admission. I accidentally sat in...
by waldenwest · Published December 27, 2013
· Last modified August 21, 2021
Interesting dinner conversation about eating your pet chickens after they’re done laying eggs: “Can you imagine if you worked really hard for four years and your boss was like, ‘now I’m going to eat...
Does anybody else find Flickr really difficult to use? Maybe I’m just old, but it’s not like Flickr is all that young. Took me more than 20 minutes to figure out: 1. privacy is...
This past weekend I went to LA to see the AVP Huntington Beach Championships (which deserves a post all by itself, so stay tuned), and I realized that I am still very unfamiliar with...
Even though I was born and raised in Taiwan until the age of eight, I never understood the distinction of being Taiwanese versus Chinese until well after college. All self-proclaimed Taiwanese people came from...
I had an epiphany this past weekend. You know how you hear stories about battered women that can’t leave their abusive husbands for whatever reason? That’s like me and Microsoft Excel: no matter how...
I know what y’all are thinking…“is there any place that he DOESN’T love?” To which the answer is, clearly you don’t know me very well. A few weeks ago I went to Taiwan for my...
A little over a month ago I took a few days off to visit a friend in LA (Pasadena, to be exact) for a much-needed break, and was pleasantly surprised by how much I...
Few things gets my blood boiling like a bad customer service experience. In fact, I’m pretty sure I have shortened my own life expectancy by 10 years because I get so angry while talking...
by waldenwest · Published January 12, 2013
· Last modified August 20, 2021
I’m currently waiting patiently at Verizon trying to get the phone numbers off my mom’s old feature phone. It’s been over 40 minutes, and I just know that once it’s my turn they will...
Love this Ted!! It is a good reminder for me to always be curious about others, even if I am…