If anyone has taken the GMAT (B-School entry exam) and has the inside scoop on scoring a 790, please feel free to divulge. As I'm sure you're well aware, standardized tests are fun like adult orthodontia. or fun like a pretentious rich kid. or fun like pelotas azul. or fun like standing behind someone...

I'm an epic movie nerd. Whenever Gladiator, Braveheart or Last of the Mohicans is on one of the movie channels, I will watch it from the point I turn it on until the end. This is not a very productive trait of mine, and it becomes especially unproductive when I stumble upon the movies at the opening...

"Dating" in Grade School rocked. I put dating in quotations because it was never more than aggressive hand holding and the occasional peck in the school parking lot. It rocked because it was exquisitely simplistic. All you had to do was ask your buddy to go over to a particular girl and see if she...

Hey friends, Just got back from my 5-year college reunion, and I had a lot of time on my 13.5 hour trip home Sunday involving the same Southwest plane (that I was unable to step off of), 4 separate airport stops due to inclement weather and a hangover that could subdue a water buffalo. I...

(This was included in my grandfather's remembrance booklet.. Knowing my grandfather would likely make this more poignant, but just know he was a fine man who would show up to parties on his blue tractor with the front end bucket carrying the beer cooler).

The best way to celebrate one's life is...

Both are independent, smart, passive aggressive and untrustworthy.

Rumor has it, more blogs are written about cats than any other topic. You read that correctly: More popular than dogs. More popular than religion. More popular than David Schwimmer. A subsequent study concluded that the...

I'm apparently a really awkward walker. Walking to work this morning, I saw a lady about 20 feet away from me and as we approached one another, I motioned left as though I was going to pass her on the left, but then tacked right deciding to walk by her on the right. This series repeated itself one...

I am way behind the times. For comparative purposes and to put it in perspective, if I were a woman at an LA pool party thrown by Jessica Alba, I would be the party-goer wearing the one piece bathing suit worn by Brendan Fraser's girlfriend in School Ties. For further illustration, if I were an NBA...

Growing up, only a few things were more fun than waking up on Easter Sunday: 1) Waking up on Christmas Day 2) Party favors and 3) penny gumball machines. I, like many stupid kids before me, believed there was a man-sized rabbit that went from house to house depositing candy filled plastic...

I went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming last weekend to see a buddy of mine ('sam' on matador) and to do some back country skiing. It seems Jackson Hole exclusively permits young, fun, athletic people who look good in puffy jackets to enter town limits. The 20 and 30 somethings live the life there, full...

In the span of 13 days, 2 family members got married and I wasn't there for either wedding.

One wedding, I had no choice. My sister, who was planning a low key wedding in Hawaii towards the end of February, decided things (guest lists) were getting too complicated and had her wedding on a beach...

Friendster. Myspace. Facebook... If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I would sell.

There was a time when Myspace was the 800 pound gorilla, and before that Friendster was the novel site spreading through the interweb like poor judgement through the Michael Vick/Jackson/Tyson households.

If history is...

throw up a lot. It seems everyone I know is sick or was sick over thanksgiving. Let's just hope this isn't another turkey Avian Bird Flu. On a somewhat related topic, here's a tanget.

You know what's somewhat awkward: Whenever someone says they were really sick, and then they said they had food poisoning...

I have 50/20 vision and glasses that I wear for work, driving and other activities requiring sight.

Until recently, I would go about standard day to day stuff without glasses, sacrificing the ability to see things beyond 10 feet for the freedom of not having to wear anything on my face. You might...

I am clearly referring to Halloween. Studies conducted by renowned Stansberry sociologists found that hang nails, the kid from the Indiana Jones movies and people telling you about their dreams last night were the only three things more annoying than picking out one's halloween costume..

(I...

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This is an enjoyable tale..

I dig San Francisco. Love it, in fact. I've heen here about a year and I
think you'd be hard pressed to find a more livable, active and fun city
anywhere in the States.

San Francisco is a destination city.
People move here with a perception of what they believe San Francisco
to be, and normally the...

I took a cab ride from point A (Hayes Valley) to Point B (The Bar) and a few minutes after I got out of the cab I realized my cell phone had fallen out of my pocket. This caused sadness and inconsolable pissed-offness. Believing I had lost my phone and all my contact information (which should serve as...

I have one right now and it fucking hurts. No idea how I got it. probably when I was sleeping last night. Which is disheartening, given that I live indoors.

Anyway, two things about bugs:

1) I have two unkilleable flys that hover in front of my TV when it's on. I think they enjoy the...

Ok, actually not really. just my index fingers. I'm on a work trip to San Diego, put up in the Omni hotel right next to Petco Park. Which is top 5 on the terrible list of sporting stadium names- up there with:

1) Energy Solutions Arena where the Jazz players of Salt Lake City ball.
2)...