Category Life

Personal E-mail Metrics

0 comments By Jarred April 25th, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
Posted in Life, Look at this

Adventures in personal metrics. Here some interesting stats on my email habits since May 2007 – five years ago next week, when I graduated from college and first started using Gmail full-time.


~22,000 conversations. I started 15% of them and replied to 17% of the rest. 4,011 different people sent me emails, and a surprising 78% of those were sent directly to me rather than to a mailing list.

(Note: although I wasn’t originally, I have become more judicious about actually deleting emails that don’t need to be archived, like promotional emails or newsletters. So I think some of these numbers may be skewed).

I like that my responses to people are shorter and quicker than their responses to me. :)

(Collected using Gmail Meter).

 

Spring Break Updates

0 comments By Jarred March 8th, 2012 @ 12:01 pm
Posted in Announcements, Law School, Life, Photos, Travel

It’s been a busy several weeks.  With some time to kill during Spring Break, here’s what’s new!

I was selected as the Managing Editor for Volume 54 of the William and Mary Law Review.  I’ve spent the past month putting together the year-long publication schedule, which I must say is quite the complex task.  The publication process begins in a few weeks; in the meantime I’ll be doing editor training, putting together resources and templates for the staff, and getting ready for a year of hard but rewarding work.

Claire and I went with another couple (John and Patricia) to Asheville this weekend for the Southern Conference basketball tournament.  Davidson won, in an epic double overtime match-up against Western Carolina.  Claire and I also went to the Biltmore Estate, and John, Patricia, and I went for a good long hike in Montreat.  There were a few inches of snow on the ground during the hike, but it wasn’t bad, and as you can see the spectacular view from the top was very much worth it:

That picture was taken using the panorama feature of my Galaxy Nexus.  Not bad for an Android phone, huh?

My brother Wilson will be returning from deployment in the next few weeks.  Hard to believe he’s done already!  He’ll have some time off in order to move across the country to Charleston for his next assignment: nuclear power school.  It’ll be great to have him closer by for a little bit!

I’m looking forward to the summer, which I’ll spend at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto.  Currently looking for somewhere to live in June and July — let me know if you have any leads!

Anchors Aweigh

1 comment By Jarred November 16th, 2011 @ 10:02 pm
Posted in Life

My younger brother, Wilson, set sail on Monday for his first deployment as an officer in the United States Navy.  Above is an image of his ship — the U.S.S. Makin Island (LH-8) — leaving San Diego. (Image captured from this impressive video of the ship leaving the port).  The Makin Island is the first hybrid-power ship in the American Navy, and it also has a system to produce over 200,000 gallons per day of fresh water from an onboard desalination system.  This is the ship’s maiden deployment, having been certified after a series of qualifying exercises over the past year.

Although his assigned “day job” is as a public affairs officer, he is one of the few officers on board qualified to serve as “Officer of the Deck” — that is, he has been certified by the captain and other executive officers to command the ship from the bridge when the executive officers are elsewhere.  He does this for six hours or so each day.  So, he is much more of a badass than me.

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1L Complete.

0 comments By Jarred May 13th, 2011 @ 11:28 am
Posted in Announcements, Law School, Life

It’s over!  This morning I put an end to my first year of law school when I handed in my law journal write-on competition packet (funny story: the topic was copyright).   The past two months have been pretty exhausting, but I’m glad to be done and looking forward to getting to San Francisco for the summer.  Adventures will include hiking Half Dome, river rafting, probably another cross-country drive at the end of the summer… oh yeah, and helping defend teh internetz.

I also wanted to point to this announcement that I received first place in the annual legal writing competition for first year students at William & Mary.  No one actually knew this competition existed until after we had turned in our required research memorandums, so it was a pleasant surprise to receive this award.  Not a big fan of the picture they chose to use, but, hey, what can you do?

Arrival

0 comments By Jarred August 11th, 2010 @ 9:51 am
Posted in Law School, Life, Travel

I just finished driving approximately 3300 miles across the country in my little Nissan (and during the last leg, a big Penske truck) packed to the brim with most of my belongings.  It took a week to get from San Francisco to Birmingham, including an extra day spent in San Diego and an extra two days in San Antonio. After a break at home, we got back on the road to Charlotte, and then finally Williamsburg.

The decision to take the “southern” route across the country was made mostly because I wanted to see my brother in San Diego and visit my friends in San Antonio.  It was certainly a fascinating experience.  We were driving through Arizona right when a judge there handed down the decision about their contentious immigration law.  I saw Mexico for the first time, right across the border from El Paso.  I saw “the wall” along the border in a few spots.

Here are some other observations from the trek:

  • Arizona is really hot.  We got out of the car for, oh, 4 minutes to put my bike inside.  We were drenched in sweat by the time we got back in.
  • Texas is massive.
  • There are actually some radio show hosts out there who claim that Islam is an instrument of the devil.  It was really disturbing.
  • Glen Beck observed on his radio show that his new iPad attempts to correct many words, but it doesn’t attempt to capitalize the word “god.”  ”Just pointing it out,” he said.  ”Not saying anything besides that whoever programmed this apparently didn’t think ‘god’ ever needed to be capitalized.”  Thanks Glen.
  • There are parts of the country where you hit the “seek” button on the radio and it cycles forever without finding a signal.
  • FedEx trucks apparently have a vendetta against me.

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