President’s Day

Today definitely felt like another Sunday – late wake-up, reading, and laziness. I got some work done through it all and even went on an Oak Creek run. I felt flat on the run, but pressed onward, finishing quite tired at the end. However, I covered a relatively good amount of ground over the 48…

Year of the Golden Pig

Happy Chinese New Year – the year of the golden pig! Yesterday I joined in on a Chinese New Years celebration and had some tasty traditional Chinese cuisine (not the American style). I watched the participants make the food on-the-spot. Update to post on too many boys in China: More bad news for Chinese men,…

February? Really?

  As of 2:30 pm, it’s 72.4 degrees here in sunny Stanford, California and the temps are still rising! Sure doesn’t feel like a mid-winter day. The skies area gorgeous blue and the air is clear. I’d call this Saturday in mid-February a gem – only in Cali! Before I get too comfortable in shorts…

Weekday Review

I’ve been writing about mountain photography the past few days, so here is a little review of what has gone down this week here at Stanford. I have made good progress on my research paper on the “Hydrological Impacts of Alpine Glacier Recession in the Pacific Northwest.” The emphasis of the paper is on the…

Top 10 Photogenic North Cascade Peaks

Yesterday’s post was a list of the best summits FROM which to take photos (see post here), today’s list features the mountains that look best IN the photos. Check it out! ALL photographs Copyright Leor Pantilat. Please ask for permission prior to any use, thanks. 1. Mount Shuksan: How could I not include the most…

Top 10 North Cascade Summits for Photos

A list of the my top ten favorite summits in the North Cascades to take amazing photos. Click on the photo for a larger version. All photographs Copyright Leor Pantilat. 1. Luna Peak: Southern and Northern Picket Range 2. Sentinel Peak: South to Chickamin Glacier, Dome Peak, Dana Glacier, and Spire Point 3. Austera Peak:…

Weekend

A kinda boring way to wrap the weekend. I basically just read, watched tv, surfed the net, read more, researched, and went to the gym. The gym workout was productive, however. I first ran for 37 minutes on the treadmill (easy shake-out run) and then lifted a bit working shoulders and pecs. I did dumbbell…

Busy Friday

Yesterday was a busy day. I had class 8-10 am and then again from 11-12:20 pm. Then I had a meeting with my group members for the Environmental Entrepreneurship business plan project from 3:30-5:30 pm. Right after that I went to a great dinner at a professor’s house. The food and company were delicious! The…

Research Shift

The research for Venture Capital has no shifted to analyzing the influx of Chinese Solar Energy companies going public on American stock exchange and the implications for the VC industry looking to invest in China and the solar energy sector in general. It took awhile, but with the help of the professor, I have reached…

10 Eating Habits that Changed

Wow, my food tastes have changed. Like so many children, I had a sugar tooth. I look back at what I ate and drank as a youngster and think, “How totally foolish!” Fortunately, my parents made me eat many of the foods I used to dislike and limited my intake of the crappy foods. I…