Registration Required…

22May08

While reading the Wikipedia article on the website www.BugMeNot.com, I came across a tongue-in-cheek “registration form” that they created to mock the pesky forms on other sites. If you stick around TWB for a while, you’ll find that I appreciate subtle satire and sarcasm, as well as just general mockery. I suppose this falls more [...]

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Tags: bugmenot, mandatory, registration

Yoriyos – “The Pied Piper”

21May08

Here’s a music video with Cat Steven’s/Yusef Islam’s son. The song is great, and the visuals make it even better.

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Tags: cat stevens, pied piper, yotiyod, yusef islam

Cat Stevens

10May08

I spent this past weekend in Bear Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The trip was absolutely amazing, and I will be sure to post pictures once I get them (I brought my camera and plenty of batteries, but somehow forget my memory card, so I used a friend’s SD card).
However, the point of this [...]

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Tags: cat stevens, father and son, moonshadow, morning has broken, peace train, sitting, the wind, wild world, yusef islam

Apologies

10May08

I would like to apologize for straying from the principles I set out for TWB. By this, I mean mostly reporting on events in my life and providing very little for us to think about. I check the “Blog Stats” every so often, and I see about 3-5 stop by everyday, with occasional dips and [...]

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Tags: (SOC), apology, stream of consciousness

Energy Crossroads

02May08

I attended a roundtable discussion today with Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco and Pete Smith, CEO of Al Tayyar Energy (founded by Prince Hicham). This discussion was part of the Energy Crossroads conference held at Stanford. I thoroughly enjoyed the talk in this small setting, and I appreciated the authentic honesty of these two fine [...]

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Tags: al tayyar, energy crossroads, morocco, price moulay hicham, stanford, stanford university