In case you haven’t heard, Boston has had it’s fair share of snow this year. Here are a few unoriginal pictures (mostly of Langdell, the law library). Notice how only one of them was taken in the daylight — that’s the result of me spending my waking hours finishing my JOLT note.

My friend Bobby is part of a mix tape club with a few other people.  I’m so in love with the idea that I’m going to copy it.  Here’s how it works:

• Each person is responsible for creating a mix 1-2 months out of the year (depending on the number of people who participate).  These mixes will be burned to CD(s) and mailed to the other members of the club.  So you’ll receive a new mix every month.
• The goal is to find awesome new music and share under-appreciated older stuff.

That’s it, really.  I guess it helps if people generally have similar music tastes, but that shouldn’t prevent people from throwing in awesome music from all genres.  If you’ve listened to any of my mixes, you know that my taste skews indie and alt-country.

So is anyone interested in participating?  It’d be great to get people from all over who don’t necessarily know each other.

After uploading the previous photograph, I continued my wandering tour of San Francisco for quite some time (see screenshot for full path).  By the end of the day, I was on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge (where I met my friend and drove to Santa Rosa for a party).  Here are some of the 125 pictures I took on my phone throughout the day (click for full resolution).  They are almost all of the Golden Gate Bridge.  You’ve been warned.

So that’s what the Golden Gate Bridge looks like, dozens of times in a row.

It is an unbelievably beautiful day today. I walked around SF and stared at this amazing structure.

Last night, after a few beers, some friends began discussing Halloween costumes.  My friend Eric talked about his buddy who dressed up as Lebron James Madison.  For the next two hours all we could do was think of new combinations.  Half-way through I began to take notes on my iPhone.  Here’s the list we came up with:

Virginia Wolf Blitzer
Ringo Star Jones
Ru Paul McCartney
Victor Hugo Chavez
Lebron James Joyce
Michael Jackson Pollock
Warren Christopher Walken
Celine Dion Sanders
Salvador Dali Parton
Larry David Ortiz
Jason Alexander Graham Bell
Lil Wayne Gretzky
T-Pain Stewart
Karl Marx Spitz
John Jay Leno
Ray Charles Barkley
Karl Mark Zuckerberg
Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ricky Martin Short
Toby Keith Olbermann
Weird Al Pacino
Diana Ross Perot
Woodrow Wilson Philips
Judd Nelson Mandela
William Jennings Bryan Adams

Add others to the comments!

My week in Orlando went by so quickly — and I already have many great things to say about my January term at Stanford — but I’ll limit this post to the vacation.  Despite the short time, we were able to do every single ride we wanted to do in each of the four WDW parks.  The secret?  Extended hours for WDW resort guests.  Turns out there’s no one in the park from 1-3 am and you can walk on to pretty much any ride.

The highlight of the trip, however, was the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  We arrived at Universal Studios around 7:30 am, and thank Zeus that we did.  We were part of the first wave to enter WWHP, and by the time we left the line TO GET INTO THE PARK was three hours long.  That’s because the park is ridiculously tiny.  There was a line to get into any gift shop — yes, a line for the gift shop — and Universal did a horrible job of directing traffic.  The park just isn’t planned well.  The Hogwarts ride exits into a gift shop the size of my apartment, where you have to fight consumers just to leave the store.  Universal should have built all of their gift shops in multiple levels, with the majority of the shops below ground-level.  And it should have just doubled the size of the park in the first place.  End rant.

Despite planning errors, there’s so much to love about WWHP.  The buildings all look fantastic, even if they are a bit small.  There are only three rides, but I found them each enjoyable.  There’s a kiddie coaster that’s fun but uneventful, a great regular roller coaster (that pre-dated WWHP) that has been rebranded as the Dueling Dragons, and the Hogwarts castle ride, which is a cross between a roller coaster, Disney’s Soarin’ Over California, and the Mr. Toad Ride.  It’s hard to describe, but know that it’s probably my favorite ride ever.  Save yourself about an hour, though, and jump in the single rider line.  Actually, just do that for every ride possible.

Anyway, here are a ton of pictures from the trip, in somewhat chronological order: