Tag: family
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Movie review: The Desolation of Smaug (Hobbit II)
While I’m a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan, “The Hobbit” has always been my least favorite of his Lord of the Ring series of books. And I simply could not fathom how anyone could make three movies out of such a short book. I liked but didn’t love the first Hobbit movie (you can read that…
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Merry Christmas!!
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Thanksgiving
We sat 25 people down for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. The extroverted half of the family was giddy with excitement. The introverted half of the family was delighted at the crowd and equally delighted when the evening ended. Here’s the menu of what was served: Thai Pumpkin Soup Fried Turkey Smoked Turkey Roasted Turkey Ham…
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Obsession, Part 2
To be fair, this is not my obsession. This is the obsession of our teenage daughter (whose two favorite phrases are “to be fair” and “awkward”). I introduced her to the BBC show “Sherlock” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson. The show is excellently written and acted and a…
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Town (restaurant in Honolulu)
We discovered Town (located at 3435 Waialae Ave) on a recommendation by some friends the last time we were in Honolulu and returned on this past trip to see if it was as good as we remembered. It is as good and possibly better. Here are some photos of Town’s magnificence: Appetizers include a baby…
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Asia-Lite Summer Vacation
What we did on our summer vacation: we visited Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Honolulu—what I laughingly call our Asia-lite trip (anytime you go to Asia and you can drink the tap water, it’s not a true Asia trip). The weather was hot and humid in both Hong Kong and Tokyo, but they were really fun…
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Monsters University
We are huge Disney fans, as most of you know, and we were all quite eager to see Pixar’s latest offering, Monsters University. While we were mildly disappointed that Pixar chose to release a prequel to a well established hit, it didn’t make us any less eager to see it. Prequels are sometimes more difficult…
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July 4 in New York City
We had one of the best July 4 holiday weekends ever! To begin with, we spent most of it with one of our favorite families to hang out with. And we spent it in one of our favorite cities, New York, and at one of our favorite hotels, the Carlyle (located at 76th & Madison).…
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Teaching at Stanford Law School
For the months of April and May, I have been teaching a class at Stanford Law School called “Internet Torts and Crimes.” This means I’ve been flying out once a week to Palo Alto to teach the class. Teaching the class has been a blast! The students have all been great, and I have learned…
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Hobbesian Choice
We were presented with the dilemma of the following choices: (i) 7 5th grade boys (10-11 years old) at a black tie event for Children’s National Medical Center; and (ii) 20 8th grade girls (13-14 years old) at a Taylor Swift concert. As a practical matter, there was no choice in the matter. Jim is…