nick loui

I just unlocked the “Super User” badge on @foursquare!

Just purchased a new server for KoosKoos.net, feeling very accomplished. Time to go clubbing in London with @stasiafong and @paigecrawf

Same waitress as last time!

London Thus Far

First Night (March 6th, 2010) - I am going to copy and paste the far too detailed itinerary that Stasia made and add my comments…

7:15AM

Arrive in London, Customs, Get Bags, Buy SimCard

Smooth flight, except for the whole inability to sleep thing.  Got through customs together, NOT banned for 6th months (john podhor) CHECK.

8:00AM

Car to the city

Scary driver.

9:00AM

Arrive at Generator London Hostel

Grossest two nights of my life.  Don’t like hostels.  It smelled like dead people.  Refused to sleep within the sheets. Scared for the Barcelona hostel…  Also surprised at all of the people that were above the age of 30.

2:00PM

NAPTIME.

Nap was incredibly important. Oh also Oxford St.  Bought lots of new clothes, including a vest. very very excited.

Random protest:

7:00PM

Dinner

8PM Onwards - Zoo Bar

After Zoo bar we ended up seeing Alice in Wonderland tipsy and Nick, Gary and I all fell asleep when she was falling down the hole. The hole was pretty long.  OH and we had dinner with Ewa. Good times. Oh.. and also as soon as Nick and I got settled in the Hostel we went for Starbucks. heh.

I would like to add that on top of my 16.00 ticket, I bought a hot dog.  But I dropped it after I was only done with 2/3 of it.  It was a very sad, sad day.

March 7th, 2010

Woke up at 2:30pm.  Jet lag for the win.  Wound up at Starbucks again.  Dinner in Chinatown.  What a waste of a day!  I blame the cold weather.

The 2010 Creativity 50 http://creativity-online.com/news/the-2010-creativity-50/142647

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten

(a guide for Global Leadership)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: “ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN” by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]

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