Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Steve Jobs may not be the easiest guy to get along with, but he sure is good at delivering commencement speeches.

Detroiters carry on amid all the hardships | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Detroiters carry on amid all the hardships | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

A college friend showed me this article.  It is a very well written, and as a native of Michigan, I especially enjoyed it.  Here is an excerpt:

Do you think if your main industry sails away to foreign countries, if the tax base of your city dries up, you won't have crumbling houses and men sleeping on church floors, too? Do you think if we become a country that makes nothing, that builds nothing, that only services and outsources, that we will hold our place on the economic totem pole? Detroit may be suffering the worst from this semi-Depression, but we sure didn't invent it. And we can't stop it from spreading. We can only do what we do. Survive.

And yet, we're better at that than most places.

Hopefully, 2009 will be a good year for Michigan.

Christmas Eve 2008

We had a great time over at Matt and Katherine's house (my brother and sister-in-law).

Freedom Writers (2007)

Freedom Writers (2007) - Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies

Julie and I watched this movie a couple of days ago. We both liked it a lot and thought it was a great drama. We probably both enjoyed it because we both like to help people. Hillary Swank played the leading role and she was passionate about helping high school students. The movie was based on a true story.