Nathan Lustig

I just booked my flight to South Africa for World Cup 2010.  I’m going with my friends Andy and Katie and we have tickets for all three USA group stage games, plus a the Spain vs. Switzerland group stage match.  Everyone I talk to says something along the lines of “oh wow, you must be [...]

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In February, Google announced plans to build “ultra high speed” Internet connections for 50,000 to 500,000 people in one or more cities around the country.  To help Google decide which city to choose, they asked cities around the country to fill out an extensive request for information and get the community behind the effort. Ever [...]

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Roger Ebert inspires me.  He used to inspire me to go out and see a movie based on his reviews, but now he inspires me on a completely different level.  I just read Roger Ebert: The Essential Man in this month’s Esquire and learned about Ebert’s story.  In 2002, he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer [...]

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Over the past week, I have been incredibly inspired by Jake Wood and the rest of Team Rubicon’s privately funded relief effort in Haiti.  Wood and his team were fed up with the bureaucracy and red tape associated with providing relief in Haiti, so they took matters into their own hands. Jake Wood, who is [...]

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Over the past year, I’ve found myself paying attention to British media and have just about completely tuned out the American media.  The only news show I watch is BBC World News America.  I read the Economist, look at BBC.com, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and The Guardian.  I probably watch BBC America 2-3 [...]

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I know it’s a little late for a year end review, but I thought I finally have time to finish this post.  I wanted to take a look at some of my favorite things from 2009 and take a look ahead to some interesting thing for 2010. 2009 was a fun year.  I graduated with [...]

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