I took off at a few minutes before midday in Seattle, and seemed to fly forever to get to Seoul. Annoyingly, I couldn’t sleep, apart from when I fell asleep just after take off and[…]
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Author: James Foreman
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Big Game
Over the last couple of days I’ve read Big Game, a book about the recent travails of the NFL, and about the New England Patriots, and about the many, apparently quite repulsive, owners of the[…]
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Seattle Bouldering Project
After work today I went down to the Seattle Bouldering Project, which resides in an old industrial space quite close to the stadiums in the south of the city. Seattle Bouldering Project is big, much[…]
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Speechless in Seattle
I made a few discoveries today. For example, I discovered that if I try to drink a pint glass full of Trader Joe’s gin and Fever Tree tonic water, it doesn’t matter how much tonic[…]
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Early flight back
Traffic in the Bay Area is ridiculously bad (does a startup exist to solve that?) so I left the office at 4:15, and got to the airport at 5, more than two hours before my[…]
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Zonked in California
I keep waking at 4am local time; this morning I managed to get back to sleep, but I keep wishing I’d remembered to buy some melatonin. As if that could really defeat the powers of[…]
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The gloominess of the airport hotel
Because my visit to Palo Alto coincides with moving-in week at Stanford, every hotel is booked out or ridiculously expensive. So I got a couple of nights at the Westin at the airport, which works[…]
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Senor Moose Again
Almosf ten years ago, on a work trip from Hong Kong to Bellevue, I went on a sort-of-blind-date in Seattle with a friend of a friend. We went to a Mexican restaurant called Senor Moose,[…]
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Thoughts on Global Entry
I flew into Seattle today and tried out my Global Entry status for the first time. This was always going to be better than the alternative (queue for a very long time until a grumpy[…]
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Overboard (2018)
One of my favourite feelgood movies is Overboard, the Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy where Hawn plays an awful entitled socialite and Kurt Russell the put-upon handyman who ends up pretending to be her husband after[…]
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