Monday Night Trivia Fight
It’s Monday night, and while you might think it’s a sleepy night, in Washington DC that can mean only one thing: Wonderland’s Monday Night Trivia Fight.
Like a live game of Trivial Pursuit, where teams compete for free drinks instead of pie pieces, Monday Night Trivia Fight is all about knowing fun, interesting, and usually very obscure facts that the host dug up before the game.
Read MoreHi, I’m Wayan
To the untrained American ear, one used to the Southern “Wayne”, my name, the Balinese “Wayan” sounds just different enough that the listener wonders if they misheard me. If my name was “Wayne” and I’m mispronouncing it, or as a quickly-ex friend once told another “His name is ‘Wayne’, but he puts on airs.”
On the Indonesian island of Bali, where there are a few more Wayan’s, Wayan is pronounced “why-YAN”, with the stress on the second syllable. Since stressing the second syllable is impossible for Americans, I’ve always told people my name sounds like “WAY-in” just to make it easy for them.
Read MoreWelcome To 33 +1/3
Yes, I’m finally admitting my age, my real age, after four years of living the “I’m twenty-nine” lifestyle. It was fun, it was real, and it’s now really fun to be me – all 33 +1/3 years of it.
Why 33 +1/3 you ask? Well I figure I was sliding by as twenty-nine for so long, I gotta play catch-up, and added the point thirty-three to make it true. What am I going to do when its August and I’m now more like 33 +1/2? Who knows & who cares. Its time to par-tay!
Read MoreA 1640 Hobart Redux
Drinking heavily at a house party at 11th and Park Road NW, who do I hear is the owner of the property but the same Martin Thomas. Shocked at his transfer to the bourgeoisie, I could only stutter something about him changing his stripes and going capitalist.
Then I hear a mighty “Wayan!” and realize that sharing the porch with me is Andrew, another 1640 housemate. We laugh, hug and start trading Russia stories non-stop. As we do, I realize the whole porch has a 1640 connection – a decade of people and parties that passed while I was off in foreign lands and other DC neighbourhoods.
Read MoreGetting What You Ask For
While in Lebanon, in between Beer Pong research, I talked with my boss about Geekcorps future and what mix we might need to take it to the next level. I was stressing the need to be selling it to donors and funders 24/7 – we now proved our execution in multiple technologies and areas but few knew, and fewer were funding.
Seems he was listening as he gave me what I wanted, a Geekcorps Director focused on bringing in more, larger programs. Guess who that Director might be? Yep, yours truly – the new Director, Geekcorps Division, International Executive Service Corps. Along with the fancy title and nice raise was a pat on the back, a point in the right direction, and just enough a hint to make it clear: bring home the bacon baby!
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