An Evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass

Thanks Meghan

Tonight I went to see a conversation with Philip Glass and Leonard as a part of the Stanford Lively Arts series. It was great to see one of the best living composers who I’ve listened to for years (thanks Matt and Kristin).

It turns out the photoblog “a daily dose of imagery” from Toronto covered the same event held there at the premier of the new collaboration between Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen.

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar

For the past year or so I’ve been following a podcast of a lecture series here at Stanford called Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar. They have had a bunch of great speakers from a number of fields involving entrepreneurs. In fact, this series is part of the reason I applied. I knew that when I got to campus I was going to try to find this series, it turns out it’s a single unit seminar class. So I signed up.

Yesterday when I went to the info session with a nearly full house, I took an empty seat near the front. I talked to my neighbor a bit before it the program started. Afterwards I introduced myself, when he said his name was Ed, I guessed his last name. It turns out we both went to the same high school, separated by 4 years. The only times our paths crossed there was at a math competition. So it’s funny to meet again here, by chance. Plus when I was in Chile this summer, I met his roommate from college on the ski lift, who is also a student here. It’s a small world.

You can find out more about the lecture series and podcast here:
http://etl.stanford.edu/

Back to school

Last night was my first night in my new apartment at Stanford. After 6 months of traveling, it’s good to know I’m going to be here a while. It also feels good to be back in a university after a two years in the real world.

Coming from a small school to a big one there’s a lot to learn. I’ve got a week to adjust to this new environment before starting classes. It turns out there’s a lot of special things to learn about parking, printing, dining, the libraries, et cetera. Plus I met two bike related people, one cyclist and one motorcyclist.

There are permit requirements everywhere on campus, so I started the process of signing up my car. I’m still trying to figure out the story with bikes, meeting two cyclists is a good start.

To make sure that everyone is reasonable when printing, printing is $.10/page. At CC where anyone could print whatever s/he wanted, people literally printed whole books. I’m sure this small charge keeps printing in check.

CC had two choices for dining and they were adjacent. Here there’s a bunch of dining halls, restaurants, coffee shops, and eating establishments undiscovered. I’m glad my appetite’s big.

Today I checked out my first few books from 8 million volume collection mainly to see if my card worked. The ones I picked up are on web programming with Google Maps and I get to keep them until January (unless someone recalls them).