Here’s what I’ve been up to:I took the California bar exam in Ontario, which is near Los Angeles. Also, it’s about 10 miles away from the epicenter of the 5.4 earthquake that hit towards the end of the first morning. So that was nice. But aside from that, things seemed to go fine. I mean, [...]

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Okay guys. Tomorrow morning I head off to California to take a test. It’ll be over on Thursday, after which I will be on vacation for a while.

I’ll be in San Francisco from the 1st to the 4th, then in Vancouver from the 4th to the 7th, then in Seattle from the 7th to the [...]

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Game-ism’s most recent post is about Nike’s designs for this summer’s Olympics, and there’s a lot of really cool stuff there, including the Ippeas—a riding boot designed by Nike, drawing from motocross, track & field, and other sports’ designs. It’s pretty fascinating how Nike applied contemporary design to a very traditional sport:

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I am planning a trip to each of the cities named in this post’s title between July 31 and August 10. I’m still hammering out the details, so if you live in one of them, or will just happen to be in one of them over that span,1 let me know.

1 Between my friends’ going [...]

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I really enjoyed this Washington Post story about Tokyo’s surfeit of great restaurants. The Michelin guide just released its first edition covering the city, canvassing its 160,000 restaurants (almost eight times as many as New York City) and granting an astonishing 191 stars (Paris has 98, NYC 54). The story is kind of about that, [...]

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Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, has a short piece in the Times on the subject of gift giving. It’s pretty funny, but this part kind of blew me away:The problem with gifts is the expectation — the truth is that one good experience can ruin you for life. For me it was two [...]

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I was listening to this week’s Ante Up podcast, and the guys had a long argument about something that has always bugged people who play poker online: how do we know these sites aren’t screwing us over? It would be facile for a poker site to rig the deal in various ways, such that the [...]

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Catherine has written regularly about the harassment she faces from random assholes on the street—guys cat-calling or yelling out all sorts of sexually explicit, aggressive, and violent things at her as she walks around. Her experience, sadly, is far from unusual—it happens to women all the time. It happens often enough when I’m walking with [...]

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