“Ahhhhhhh!!! Everyone hide under your desk! It’s the BIG one!” “We’re going to die!” “The sky is falling the sky is falling!” These were all phrases that I did not hear when the earthquake hit Southern California two days ago. Despite what the media reports, it was generally viewed as mild by Californians. This was [...]
July, 2008
Peter Pan syndrome
Today is my 25th birthday and it’s becoming painfully evident that my maturity is stunted compared to my friends. Everyone around me seems to be getting married or engaged. On the other hand, this video made me laugh out loud at work. One day I too will get married, have a mortgage, and a white [...]
Carbon Labels in California
BusinessGreen.com has reported (well actually a lot of people have) that beginning next year, new cars will be labeled with a carbon emissions tag. The tag will have a number, 1-10, ten being the most efficient, to notify drivers how environmentally friendly the car is. The aim is to shame drivers into driving more environment [...]
Water, Aqua, H2O, Nam
Have you ever noticed how many different varieties of water there are these days? Water is such a large part of our daily lives. It’s what keeps us alive. Seventy percent of the Earth is covered by water and humans are comprised of roughly 65% water. But I thought water was supposed to be simple. [...]
I’ve lost my back up plan
I know that I said I wasn’t going to blog for a while, but some news came up that I needed to make public to the BoumanBlog community. My long time friend, Nicki Castona, is officially engaged to Jeff Wolf. Nicki and I met in middle school way back in the 1996-1997 school year. Despite [...]
