tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35291642011-04-21T10:47:38.364-07:00enjoy.My attempt to document a year on the road to here, there and everywhere else.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.comBlogger2391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1149382398399660842006-06-03T17:50:00.000-07:002006-06-03T17:53:18.416-07:00This is damn cool. Goldman Sachs' report on the World Cup and Economics.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1149195011009841112006-06-01T13:47:00.000-07:002006-06-01T13:50:11.080-07:00Almost one out of seven Hong Kongers got at least 1,000 shares of BOC through the world's biggest IPO in six years. I find this amazing. The Bank of China has been financing poorly run state owned enterprises for years, yet the public market believes that it's a good bet that they've figured out how to run a modern bank. The one good thing about this is that hopefully the transparency Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1149133098276813762006-05-31T20:35:00.000-07:002006-05-31T20:38:21.673-07:00The World Cup Stock Market ooooo.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1149122487542878652006-05-31T17:38:00.000-07:002006-05-31T17:41:27.546-07:00Just found another podcast, GigShanghai. Devoted to the Shanghai music scene.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1149118522302870792006-05-31T16:32:00.000-07:002006-05-31T17:33:50.556-07:00A year ago I didn't really "get" podcasting. I had heard of it, but I didn't really see the point. Now, I'm totally into it. It's now to the point where I spend more time listening to podcasts these days than I do the actual music on my iPod. During the drive across country podcasts were essential. The longer the better, anything to keep me from listening to normal radio. These were the Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1148960412116072262006-05-29T20:37:00.000-07:002006-05-29T20:40:12.196-07:00The last week:Charlottesville to NashvilleNashville to ChicagoChicago to Eau Claire, WisEau Claire to MinneapolisMinneapolis to Grand Island, NebGrand Island to Park City, UtahPark City to San FranciscoThe Nashville excursion was based on a desire to see the US Soccer team play, but I missed the game due to a huge wreck on I-40. In Chicago I saw Pete's new place. Minneapolis was to see a Twin'sBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1148388899202780342006-05-23T05:52:00.000-07:002006-05-23T05:54:59.256-07:00Final Exercises Final Exercises Originally uploaded by beaunose. This was last Sunday. I'm all done.California here I come.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147974500193317042006-05-18T10:45:00.000-07:002006-05-18T10:48:20.200-07:00Matt McBrady and Peter Rodriguez were elected our class faculty marshalls for graduation. As a result they have to read out each of our names as they hand out our diplomas. Some of our names are tough to pronounce. My name is very often mangled despite its relative shortness. Following a request from the professors, I sent them this guide to pronounce my name:Beau: think "Bo" as in Bo JacksonBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147973470836509852006-05-18T10:28:00.000-07:002006-05-18T10:31:10.903-07:00Hip-Hop Jazz Dancers.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147904346689126372006-05-17T15:16:00.000-07:002006-05-17T15:19:06.743-07:00No Car Day in BeijingBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147819168330358342006-05-16T15:36:00.000-07:002006-05-16T15:39:28.393-07:00Immigration control DSC00655.JPG Originally uploaded by beaunose. George Bush should ask China how well the Great Wall kept out the Mongols.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147796167012158712006-05-16T09:13:00.000-07:002006-05-16T09:16:07.073-07:00The collective 'oooo' you hear on the internets today is from Mac-heads and wannabe Mac-heads looking at the new MacBook, especially the black one (which costs US$200 more while only giving you an extra 20 GB Hard Disk storage, but dammit IT'S BLACK!)I don't like the shiny screen. Shiny screens look good on first glance, but are more prone to fingerprints and I don't want to be disturbed by Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147725884176370632006-05-15T13:42:00.000-07:002006-05-15T13:44:44.240-07:00The first time I saw the trailer for United 93 I said to myself there was no way in hell I would ever want to see it. Today I did see it as a matinee, and it's really damn good. It is not, as I and many people feared, a film that plays on jingoism or patriotism or a lot of the other poor responses to 9-11. It's just two hours, in real time, of an attempt to explain what happened. Imperfect Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147721808017067712006-05-15T12:34:00.000-07:002006-05-15T12:36:48.080-07:00Handbrake, a cool little app to convert DVD's into iPod Video ready formats. I'm surprised the MPAA hasn't shut this down yet.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147570266866391472006-05-13T18:27:00.000-07:002006-05-13T18:31:06.886-07:00I have a lot of friends who graduated from Art Center so Art School Confidential had a lot jokes that I could relate too. There's about three movies here. One is just a series of riffs on the pretentiousness of art students, which could have centered on John Malkovich. The second is the unrequited love story between an artist and a model in his drawing class. The third is a series of murdersBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147451775779286232006-05-12T09:33:00.000-07:002006-05-12T09:36:15.843-07:00The Burrito Map of San Francisco. Burritos are to SF what fish tacos are to San Diego.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147273814604780902006-05-10T08:07:00.000-07:002006-05-10T08:10:14.620-07:00California has the most hybrids. Virginia is 5th. My Subaru is now ten years old and I occasionally think about getting a hybrid. The ones I like most are the Hondas, but the two door is almost certainly too small for my body. The Accord apparently doesn't offer any significant fuel economy gains compared to the 4 cylinder version, which is much cheaper.Annoyingly the only vehicles that I canBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147122039894404622006-05-08T13:58:00.000-07:002006-05-08T14:00:39.966-07:00North Korea is allowing Americans to visit. I would do it. What few stories I hear about the DPRK always fascinate me.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147100115225271872006-05-08T07:52:00.000-07:002006-05-08T07:55:15.283-07:00I have to admit, this sounds tempting.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1147015429124180602006-05-07T08:21:00.000-07:002006-05-07T08:23:49.143-07:00MBA for kids! Hooray!Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146931321871631962006-05-06T08:59:00.000-07:002006-05-06T09:02:01.933-07:00Last day of class Last day of class Originally uploaded by beaunose. It's all over.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146870287292860832006-05-05T16:02:00.000-07:002006-05-06T12:09:10.900-07:00Mission Impossible 3 is not a good movie, but I went to see it today nonetheless. It is, as far as I know, the first big budget American movie filmed in Shanghai. Despite that it's still been banned in China, either because it has scenes in The Vatican, which does not have diplomatic relations with Beijing, or because the movie shows US Government agents shooting their way past "former People'sBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146680848144829572006-05-03T11:25:00.000-07:002006-05-03T11:27:28.220-07:00I have met Mr. Jalopy once during a surreal weekend in Los Angeles, but that doesn't stop me from continually being amazed by his existence.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146599713429148532006-05-02T12:53:00.000-07:002006-05-02T12:55:13.430-07:00Kottke likes the new Mac ads. I'm not so sure. After two years as a Mac guy in a nearly all Windows environment I think it does little more than enforce the old stereotypes about Mac users. Unfortunately these stereotypes are pretty high barriers from people switching platforms.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146599541755302052006-05-02T12:50:00.000-07:002006-05-02T12:52:21.770-07:00A year ago for a business projects presentation I talked about starting a business that linked real bank accounts with virtual bank accounts. I think only about half the class got it. Now it's happening.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146414803016717832006-04-30T09:33:00.000-07:002006-04-30T09:33:23.020-07:00At the Darden tent At the Darden tent Originally uploaded by beaunose. So Foxfields...There are horse races at Foxfields. I saw some horses go by a couple times and a jockey fall off on one of the jumps. If didn't see anywhere that one could actually bet on the races, but I do remember giving a girl $1 to put on number 4 in one of the races and never hearing from her again. But that's all beside the pointBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146414066866898602006-04-30T09:19:00.000-07:002006-04-30T09:21:06.923-07:00Amazing and gruesome images from Mainland China. Not for the faint of heart.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146409697387766292006-04-30T08:06:00.000-07:002006-04-30T08:08:17.446-07:00Colbert on Bush. Oh dear god.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146321836368472212006-04-29T07:42:00.000-07:002006-04-29T07:43:56.450-07:00The Back Dormitory Boys of China are getting an absurd amount of press in America. I've also seen them in Wired and The Economist.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146241078242902842006-04-28T09:16:00.000-07:002006-04-28T09:17:58.250-07:00Tomorrow is the Spring Foxfield Races. This is the big spring social event at UVa. The men wear seersucker suits, or dress shirts, ties and khakis (like I will). The women wear traditional southern spring dresses, pearls, and soforth. I've never been to this before. The people I've talked to say it's just a big excuse to drink outside. Pictures are forthcoming.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146239466897221402006-04-28T08:49:00.000-07:002006-04-28T08:51:06.976-07:00New hotness: Gnarls BarkleyBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1146189313349319402006-04-27T18:53:00.000-07:002006-04-27T18:55:13.400-07:00Earth-Friendly Hand Grenades. Wow.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145990706198455212006-04-25T11:43:00.000-07:002006-04-25T11:45:06.256-07:00This idea of standing room airline seats makes me shudder. I'm 6'6" tall (1.98m) in bare feet and my head usually is taller than the seat back headrests of most airplanes. I could easily see the highest setting of that shoulder bar being too low, making these seats a new level of torture designed for people my size.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145976787688194002006-04-25T07:51:00.000-07:002006-04-25T10:36:19.226-07:00Today we saw a research study of what factors most positively and negetively correlate to success in our post-Darden careers. "Success" in this case means income, and that could be easily debated. The test group was Darden alums from 1979 to 1981. Some of the interesting results:-- The quality of the undergraduate school had very little to do with future income.-- GMAT scores correllate Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145887526261258112006-04-24T07:05:00.000-07:002006-04-24T07:05:26.326-07:00Wilco Wilco Originally uploaded by beaunose. Last night a bunch of us met at Ron Wilcox's new house near downtown Charlottesville for some beers. He also got us free tickets (how is something I can't go into) for Wilco at the Charlottesville Pavilion. Sadly, Ron still expected us to make it to his 8 AM Marketing Research class this morning.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145641859039415602006-04-21T10:49:00.000-07:002006-04-21T10:50:59.106-07:00Highlights from yesterdays George Bush - Hu Jintao Summit up the road in DC:-- People's Republic of China != Republic of China We sometimes get them confused.-- Falun Gong reporters probably shouldn't have been given press credentials (scroll down to the 21 April entry) -- Bush really likes Hu's suit.-- CCTV provided unfettered coverage of the visit.A day later the meeting seems to be much ado Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145627048211046752006-04-21T06:42:00.000-07:002006-04-21T06:44:08.286-07:00fight the lawThis is what it's like to live with a law student for a year.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145551795696295502006-04-20T09:48:00.000-07:002006-04-20T09:49:55.753-07:00The Government developed the iPod!Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145491795048925182006-04-19T17:08:00.000-07:002006-04-19T17:09:55.103-07:00Today, just now, I showed a bit of the Tank Man documentary to a Mainland Chinese Darden student. She had never seen the Tiananmen Incident before. I had. I had to stop it a couple minutes in when the Beijing women were pleading with soldiers using the words "Brother Soldiers!" She burst into tears at that line. It was like a line she used in school to refer to the People's Liberation Army.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145456749380004212006-04-19T07:24:00.000-07:002006-04-19T07:25:49.436-07:00Hong Kong is losing its expats.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145404146659434062006-04-18T16:47:00.000-07:002006-04-18T16:49:06.663-07:00CartoonsCartoons! Woohoo!Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145375252799318632006-04-18T08:45:00.000-07:002006-04-18T08:47:32.850-07:00ProtestThe student protest I mentioned last weekend did not end well.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145366420319183412006-04-18T06:20:00.000-07:002006-04-18T06:20:20.373-07:00Grace and Mike Grace and Mike Originally uploaded by beaunose. I've put up a few more videos of the Darden Theater class. This was the best of the other pieces.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145283027199288062006-04-17T07:08:00.000-07:002006-04-17T07:10:27.213-07:00I'm giving Google Video a shot to compare vis-a-vis Youtube and so far I'm a bit upset. Why does it take two days for them to approve my videos for broadcast? Do they actually have someone screening this stuff?Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145219655682044752006-04-16T13:34:00.000-07:002006-04-16T13:34:15.726-07:00Living wage protest Living wage protest Originally uploaded by beaunose. UVa is not politically active like Berkeley, Chapel Hill, or Santa Cruz. Protests are a pretty rare thing here. So when some students decided to protest the low pay of some university employees by camping out on the lawn of the administration there was some befuddlement. Things like these simply do not happen here. The Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1145038312116072792006-04-14T11:10:00.000-07:002006-04-14T11:11:52.160-07:00Oh boy I'm looking forward to Windows Vista. This will fix everything.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144939353344617312006-04-13T07:40:00.000-07:002006-04-13T07:42:33.400-07:00Red PaperclipDude has nearly traded one red paperclip for a new house. Bargaining and Negotiating professors should take note.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144872141947407432006-04-12T13:00:00.000-07:002006-04-12T13:02:22.003-07:00One of the interesting things that just hit was that in three of the four classes I'm taking this quarter the students are teaching the classes. Usually this in the form of class-long group presentations. The professors mostly sit in the seats with the students. Occasionally they stand up to say something, but not much. Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144858327933710282006-04-12T09:10:00.000-07:002006-04-12T09:12:07.956-07:00Steak!A much better description of steak in Argentina than I could manage.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144856885264966402006-04-12T08:46:00.000-07:002006-04-12T08:48:05.313-07:00TankmanI caught the last half of Frontline's new China report last night. The unfortunate thing about it is that it focuses on Tiananmen so much. We in the west saw so much ourselves in that protest that when we look at the rest of what China has become and that that is so different from us that we want to focus on what is familiar.I think that last sentence makes sense.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144789740382534992006-04-11T14:09:00.000-07:002006-04-11T14:34:02.450-07:00Song for B-School Colgate Darden w/iPod Originally uploaded by beaunose. I'm replacing my iPod after graduation. I got my current third generation 20GB version a couple months before coming to Darden, and at this point the battery is down to about 4 hours playtime, and it loses charge quickly if it isn't recharged often.Since I manually load the songs onto the iPod the Play Count on my iPod reflects what Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144761168585962482006-04-11T06:11:00.000-07:002006-04-11T06:12:48.590-07:00NominatedSomehow, I'm sure as hell not sure how, I've been nominated as one of the best MBA blogs this year. Maybe it was all the travel pictures.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144351650872463012006-04-06T12:25:00.000-07:002006-04-06T12:27:30.940-07:00Shanghai TaxiThe interesting story of a Shanghai Taxi Driver.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144286159132266842006-04-05T18:14:00.000-07:002006-04-05T18:15:59.196-07:00Macs with windows.There's been a lot written about the whole Macs running Windows thing since it was announced yesterday. There's been quite a bit of specualtion at who the hell would be the target market for a MacBook with Windows. I don't have the full story on this but I can say this: It would make for a hell of a good laptop to go through Darden with. I sure as well wish I had this option when I started Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1144254802492566792006-04-05T09:31:00.000-07:002006-04-05T09:33:22.553-07:00So last quarter in Starting New Ventures my venture for the course was a company that did an aftermarket modification to MacBooks to dual-boot Windows. My theory was that Apple would never officially sanction such an idea due to their rivalry with Microsoft. Boy was I wrong. It's good to see Apple meeting a customer demand even if it's not the best thing for Mac OS X.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1143907403936779222006-04-01T08:03:00.000-08:002006-04-01T08:03:24.010-08:00Blossom Close Up Blossom Close Up Originally uploaded by beaunose. I went up to Washington for the Cherry Blossom Festival yesterday. I was hoping that there would be less tourists given that it was a Friday. I was wrong. It was packed.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1143815355620465282006-03-31T06:29:00.000-08:002006-03-31T06:29:15.673-08:00Darden Theater Darden Theater Originally uploaded by beaunose. So I talked before about Freeman's Literature class. He also teaches two classes in theater (nominally under the Ethics field) at Darden. I initially signed up for the fourth quarter theater class, but swapped it for a strategy class because I felt I needed to challenge myself a bit more. The one-week spring break edition of the class Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1143492205416759582006-03-27T12:43:00.000-08:002006-03-27T12:43:25.470-08:00Springtime Springtime Originally uploaded by beaunose. Winter has finally been broken.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1143473575920549262006-03-27T07:31:00.000-08:002006-03-27T07:32:55.970-08:00UCLAI have an apology to make. In Buenos Aires a boisterous UCLA fan pointed a camera at me and asked if I thought UCLA would make the Final Four. I said definitively "no." I, following my 0 for 4 in this weekend's games, was wrong. I apologize. Of course, the UCLA guy had a hot Argentine girlfriend with him and I did not, so I doubt he minded my comment too much.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1143127603466218892006-03-23T07:25:00.000-08:002006-03-23T07:26:43.470-08:00BocaPhotos from the La Bombadera are up.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1143126693431792922006-03-23T07:10:00.000-08:002006-03-23T07:11:33.483-08:00JustI love this video of a cover version to Radiohead's "Just".Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1143067983794364792006-03-22T14:51:00.000-08:002006-03-22T14:53:03.846-08:00Vista DelayedThose who know me at Darden know I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but even I'm amazed reading this post about the delay of Windows Vista by current and former Microsoft employees. It's like watching a giant corporate train wreck.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1142989641062105802006-03-21T17:07:00.000-08:002006-03-21T17:07:21.113-08:00Telmotango solarium Telmotango solarium Originally uploaded by beaunose. I've posted some photos of the Telmotango Hostel that I stayed at my first four nights in BA. It's a well run place that I stayed at for US$25 a night in my own room (I paid for both beds in a double). They have a good maid service, friendly staff, free breakfast and internet, and I didn't feel unsafe in the neighborhood (but then Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1142969654298803532006-03-21T11:34:00.000-08:002006-03-21T11:34:14.330-08:00Hope Hope Originally uploaded by beaunose. We had four days of classes at IAE about doing business in Argentina and Latin America. Compared to China, where the hype balloon never stops growing, Argentina has much less favorable business conditions. Labor is cheap, but not as cheap as in China. The workforce is educated, but they speak Spanish and are more expensive than India's. The Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1142966252576290162006-03-21T10:37:00.000-08:002006-03-21T10:37:32.616-08:00Can't finish all the steak Can't finish all the steak Originally uploaded by beaunose. So in BA you have three basic choices for food: steak, pasta and pizza. (Note: this is a gross oversimplification) Think of Italy with a lot more cattle. I had more steak in 12 days of BA than I had in all of 2005. Thanks to some rather silly economic policies Argentine beef is ridiculously cheap, as is the wine. We ate atBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1142902814904489802006-03-20T17:00:00.000-08:002006-03-20T17:00:14.950-08:00Watching Hoops in BA Watching Hoops in BA Originally uploaded by beaunose. So Carolina apparently lost yesterday. (It is where I got my undergrad degree.) I didn't get to see it of course, we only went to watch basketball one night in BA. It was a good season nonetheless.I am, however, in second place in NCAA Pool at the moment. This is a non-betting (no, really) pool that I managed to win last year by Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1142875815677847922006-03-20T09:30:00.000-08:002006-03-20T09:30:15.686-08:009 de Julio 9 de Julio Originally uploaded by beaunose. Just got back this morning. Tylenol PM worked wonders for my ability to sleep on a plane. The cab driver back from Charlottesville airport spent the whole drive explaining to us how the Crusades explain why we are the way we are. It's all still a bit surreal at the moment. I have about 40 photos to post and this is the first.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1142433027834011702006-03-15T06:27:00.000-08:002006-03-15T06:30:27.846-08:00One way to know you´re dining with a bunch of MBA´s:We´ve been having large group dinners here in BA. At the end of the meal we have a contest to guess the final total on the check in pesos. Closest guess doesn´t have to pay. People have become obsessive about this building little spreadsheets at the table to make the most refined guess. I haven´t won yet, but then I´m more interested in Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1142270632835128012006-03-13T09:15:00.000-08:002006-03-13T09:23:52.846-08:00Things I saw at yesterday´s Boca Juniors football match.-- A kid spit on a player about to kick a corner, and then run back to his father´s loving arms.-- A small fire in the visiting fans section of the stadium-- Four goals, but one I thought was clearly offside.-- People climbing over the spiked wall between the reserved section (where I was seated) and the rowdier bleachers, risking a thirty Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1141850777826462512006-03-08T12:38:00.000-08:002006-03-08T12:46:17.836-08:00I have arrived in Buenos Aires safely. For the first four nights, before the classes here start I am staying in a hostel in San Telmo called Hostel Telmotango. It is in a newly refurbished 130 year old building in the older part of town. It seems well maintained, and I think it has only been operating for a couple of months, so it was not hard to get a private room of my own for US$20 a night.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1141496953266912402006-03-04T10:28:00.000-08:002006-03-04T10:29:13.316-08:00RoommatesBack in 1998 I such a bad roommate experience that I vowed to live by myself even if I had to spend extra money to do so. When I came to Darden that practice ended and I've had three sets of three roommates. Each time I hadn't met the roommates before moving in with them. Now I know I have my own personality quirks, but I've observed some pretty strange behavior in my male roommates. One wentBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1141407979670910782006-03-03T09:45:00.000-08:002006-03-03T09:46:19.676-08:00StreakersIf I'm out late at the bars on The Corner then I usually end up walking through The Lawn on Grounds to get home. I didn't do this last year because I lived somewhere else (and didn't go out nearly as much). So anyway walking home late at night I now see streakers on The Lawn. Apparently this is one UVa's traditions that you have to do before graduating. The students undress on the steps of Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1141404988041791442006-03-03T08:56:00.000-08:002006-03-03T08:56:28.083-08:00Last Ethics class Last Ethics class Originally uploaded by beaunose. So the last meeting of Business Ethics through Literature meets at Ed Freeman's house. Some people showed up at 9 in the morning to help cook. Ed has a full band room in his house so an impromptu blues/rock band was formed and played throughout the night. We went through about 40-50 bottles of wine last night.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1141240333044224682006-03-01T11:02:00.000-08:002006-03-01T11:12:13.056-08:00I leave for Argentina next Tuesday. For the first time since I've been at Darden I'll be using the Charlottesville Airport. The only reasons I'm doing this is that it seems to be very difficult to get the direct flight from Dulles to Buenos Aires unless you have a connector going into it. If you put IAD-EZE into SideStep it will route you through Dallas, Miami, New York or even Santiago, ChileBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1141233713858498392006-03-01T09:09:00.000-08:002006-03-01T09:21:53.870-08:00I've got a phone again. I got the same RAZR that I had before, not because I think it's the greatest phone ever, but because I've still got the power cord for the old one. I've lost power cords before and they are always overpriced to replace. There wasn't any real price difference for a RAZR vs a 'lesser' phone if you're not re-upping your contract. I took a look at the SLVR, which Cingular Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1140887202835966752006-02-25T09:03:00.000-08:002006-02-25T09:06:42.840-08:00Love the new Mac widgets from Google.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1140883467889938362006-02-25T08:02:00.000-08:002006-02-25T08:04:27.900-08:00I've done a ton of travelling the last couple of years and managed to get through it all without ever having anything stolen from me. That ended last night when my mobile phone and digital camera were pickpocketed from me here in Charlottesville. Excuse me while I curse loudly for letting my guard down.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1140629754969855302006-02-22T09:26:00.000-08:002006-02-22T09:35:54.986-08:00Fewer posts lately. Most second years in their third quarter have projects due in the next couple of weeks. The future bankers in Mergers and Acquisitions have been working all night on their pitch books. Usually that course is taught Bruner, but with his duties as Dean, the role of teaching that class has gone to a professor on loan from Deutsche Bank. Today they're all in their power suits Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1140122970902737782006-02-16T12:47:00.000-08:002006-02-16T12:49:30.913-08:00I've been looking at YouTube quite a bit lately. It's like Flickr but for video. Here's my first upload, from my last day at HKUST.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1140033816297099722006-02-15T11:50:00.000-08:002006-02-15T12:03:36.310-08:00Two blog worthy things today:One of my good friends was quoted in the SF Chronicle about the Cheney shooting. Il Ling instructed me on the one and only time I've fired a shotgun. When I hit a clay pigeon on my first shot she turned to the other people in our group and said "video games."I'm not currently seeing anyone at the moment so my Valentine's Day was quiet. I went and saw Elizabethtown Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1139774991420148222006-02-12T12:09:00.000-08:002006-02-12T12:09:51.456-08:00Law School Parties Law School Parties Originally uploaded by beaunose. I'll be honest here. UVa Law throws better parties than Darden does. For the month of February they have a party every night. It helps to know a law student who can get you in.My only complaint about them is that they always have such damn cheap beer at these parties. At Darden you'll find a lot more wine and vodka drinkers.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1139675914827385692006-02-11T08:31:00.000-08:002006-02-11T08:38:34.836-08:00I've had three sets of three roommates during my time here at Darden. The latest I joined in January. They're all in UVa Med. I've never had any interest in becoming a doctor nor have any of my friends, so the med school subculture is completely foreign to me. The common characteristics of my roommates is that they all seem to be in a big hurry to get married, and none of them seem to drink.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1139669428045086332006-02-11T06:48:00.000-08:002006-02-11T06:50:28.056-08:00It's snowing today in Charlottesville. I'll take some pictures in a bit.Macau Casino World has posted one of my Macau photos. It's documenting the the crazy insane growth of the former Portuguese colony.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1139598030904684062006-02-10T10:57:00.000-08:002006-02-10T11:00:30.916-08:00Today's Doonesbury strip pretty much captures what most Mainland Chinese expressed to me when you ask about Mao. (You have to know that Honey Huan, the Chinese woman in Doonesbury worked for Mao back in the 70's.) I did press one Chinese woman about whether they talked about him or knew what he did. After a long time she finally told me "We do talk about it, but never in front of a foreigner."Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1138994598562843372006-02-03T11:19:00.000-08:002006-02-03T11:23:18.573-08:00Just as the bird flu has moved from China to Hong Kong another bug has been moving around Darden and hit me. I have to note the insane mayhem at Hong Kong Disneyland this New Year's week as well, as I try to rest up.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1138890356272313762006-02-02T06:25:00.000-08:002006-02-02T06:25:56.286-08:00Graduation information is up.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1138641665072927142006-01-30T09:21:00.000-08:002006-01-30T09:21:05.076-08:00Outdoor classes in January Outdoor classes in January Originally uploaded by beaunose. Over the weekend the forecast was for some snow tonight, but the day is still warm enough for outdoor classes in January.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1138640541398128542006-01-30T08:57:00.000-08:002006-01-30T09:02:21.406-08:00About two-thirds of the Second Year class has accepted job offers. I didn't look for a job while I was in Hong Kong, and I'm looking for a smaller tech or consulting firms, which have later recruiting schedules. The top 8 employers at Darden (by number of students hired) so far are:Bank of America McKinsey & Co. Bain & Company, Inc Wachovia Securities, Inc.IBM Strategy & Change Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1138563963635781702006-01-29T11:46:00.000-08:002006-01-29T11:46:03.686-08:00The Darden Piano Room The Darden Piano Room Originally uploaded by beaunose. The piano room is by far my favorite place to study on the Darden Grounds. It's very centrally located, just to the left of the Pepsico Forum where First Coffees are held, yet somehow it's almost always empty. Partially I think it's because there are a only a couple places in this room where one can get wired internet access. (It'sBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1138397199295200462006-01-27T13:23:00.000-08:002006-01-27T13:26:39.306-08:00I remain on the lookout for snow. We've had none throughout January and there's none in the 10 day forecast. Growing up in California I didn't have snow days. Snow was something you drove to up in the mountains, and then left when you were finished with it. Here in Virginia we're supposed to have at least some snow. We did last year, but only a couple inches here and there. It wasn't enoughBeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1138287557873060612006-01-26T06:59:00.000-08:002006-01-26T06:59:17.920-08:00Chinese New Year at Darden Chinese New Year at Darden Originally uploaded by beaunose. Happy Year of the Dog!Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1137856172247955312006-01-21T06:53:00.000-08:002006-01-21T07:09:32.306-08:00Through one week of classes my favorite this quarter is Business Ethics Through Literature. While it's in the Ethics category for Darden classes it doesn't discuss the ethical frameworks and morality that First Year Ethics does. The class is taught by Ed Freeman, who has just had both of his hips replaced and is extra cantankerous as a result. His hair is also now much longer and wilder than Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1137773627119970632006-01-20T08:13:00.000-08:002006-01-20T08:13:47.130-08:00I miss this less after last night, but I still miss it.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1137685717415530452006-01-19T07:32:00.000-08:002006-01-19T07:48:37.430-08:00The one-week Global Business Experience (GBE) classes in March are by far the most popular classes at Darden, and most aggressively traded (we have a message board for posting desire and available classes, and trades are frequently made). During the GBE you take classes during the day, and get the opportunity to explore during the night. Often the night explorations are much more interesting Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1137524713635375752006-01-17T10:56:00.000-08:002006-01-17T11:05:13.650-08:00And so normal classes begin again at Darden. This time though I'm a Second Year, which is a completely different experience from a First Year. First Years always have had the same schedule (this years class breaks that pattern in that they have electives for their last quarter), so they move in a giant herd in and out of their assigned classrooms. Second Years have wildly varying schedules. Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1137345201856701802006-01-15T09:09:00.000-08:002006-01-15T09:13:21.866-08:00This issue of The Escapist covers the problem of video game addiction. I currently do not own a game system, and my Powerbook tends to overheat when I play anything on it so I don't currently play any games. I've never played a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, but I've been tempted. What's stopped me is the stories I've heard of people playing such games all night. This is an emerging Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1136657094926806702006-01-07T10:04:00.000-08:002006-01-07T10:04:54.973-08:00New Home New Home Originally uploaded by beaunose. Another month, another new home. I'm sharing this house with three med students for the next four and half months. The rent is cheap (US$345) and the interior is immaculately clean. I'm one block from the football stadium and I can walk through the main grounds to get to the shops on The Corner. Charlottesville is a different kind of shock Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1136392725452633762006-01-04T08:34:00.000-08:002006-01-04T08:38:45.463-08:00For an empirical measure of the value of an individual's life in China vs America compare the round the clock coverage of the death of 12 coal miners in West Virginia with the assumption that 100 Chinese coal miners die every day.Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1135985285482879062005-12-30T15:21:00.000-08:002005-12-30T15:28:05.493-08:00Another phone arrived today from Cingular with the same problem. It does not turn on. Now the techie in me says that I should debug this problem, but the techie in me was a much younger and foolish version of me. With age (and business school) I know that this is not my problem to solve. Cingular needed to live up to its warranty and replace my non-working phone with a phone that works. (Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529164.post-1135914139842201092005-12-29T19:15:00.000-08:002005-12-29T19:42:19.856-08:00One of the annoying things about going abroad for four months was that there was no good way handle my mobile phone number here in the US. I've had the same number for about 5 or so years now and didn't want to give it up. Also Cingular had me under a contract to maintain my service. They don't allow you to suspend your account because you will be living abroad. So I continued paying the Beauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17934611782664843186noreply@blogger.com0