I flew into Sheremetyevo airport with about thirteen fellow RSM students. We were waved through immigration by a typically stone-faced official woman, and then I was set loose onto Russian soil. Immediately your brain starts looking for the differences. Everything is written in Cyrillic. Are the ads different from ads Read more…
To get in the spirit of going to Moscow, I did a little inventory about movies I saw growing up that shaped my opinions about what Russia is like: Moscow on the Hudson The Hunt for Red October The Spy Who Loved Me From Russia With Love Octopussy Red Heat Read more…
In a little more than seven hours I’ll be on my way to Russia. I’m going for a week as part of my MBA program, to do an immersion in a different business culture and environment and broaden our knowledge of how business is done around the world. I have Read more…
Ann and I, our friend Ian, and two of our colleages (Fleur and Stefan), participated in the Jameson Pub Quiz at O’ Casey’s Irish Pub in Den Haag last night. Generally, I like trivia games. The first challenge, always the toughest, was coming up with a team name. Since all Read more…
Pretty funny. The animation was fine, nothing spectacular. The voice talent was good (Schwimmer and Ali G did the best jobs). Story was cute and well done, if a bit trite. The best thing about the movie are all the film references and the New York cliches which are worked Read more…
Ann and I saw Dralion, one of the newer shows of Cirque du Soleil, this weekend in Rotterdam. This is the third Cirque du Soleil show we’ve seen (O and Varkai being the other two). As with the others, it’s a fantastic display of creativity and ingenuity of what can Read more…
No, I’m not talking about the classic starring Rodney Dangerfield. Although I did feel a little like his character as I walked into the examination hall for my Mangerial Economics final exam. It was the first time I had taken a test for school in eight years. I had gone Read more…
We rented the French film “A Very Long Engagement” last night. It starred Audrey Tautou and was directed and co-written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the writer and director of Amelie. So, we had high expectations. I liked this movie even better than Amelie (which I loved). It had the same simplicity Read more…
I’m such a dick. My friend Ryan made the mistake of telling me that he was “experimenting” with the whole blogging thing, just to get a feel for the technology. That’s kind of like when you’re in college and you tell your friend about the “experimenting” you did with homosexuality… Read more…
Right off the bat you should know that from the ages of 11 to about 15 I was a huge comic fan. I generally shunned what I considered the more ‘kiddie’ brand of DC comics in favor of the imminently more mature Marvel universe of superheroes, but I always had Read more…