post-NOLA: chocolate lava cakes at home, townie stories. Hey, Google adsense girls, if you want an Econ PhD guy, I know plenty.

Last night at NOLA a somewhat sloshed young man came up to our group (there to celebrate Diego de Argentina finishing the Stanford Econ PhD program in 3.5 short years [seriously, I cannot fully expound on the amazingness of his accomplishment]) and proceeded to ask if we were Stanford people. Everyone nodded. I shook my head.

Mr. Sloshed went on to talk about how he was from Palo Alto and was back visiting people and “hey, could he have this chair?”

No, he couldn’t have the chair.

I went upstairs to use the restroom and got into a brief conversation with some girls from Google. They were on a manhunt. I wished them luck and came downstairs to a group of young, smart men who were suddenly talking about looking for women. Oh, general lack of communication! How you keep people apart!

Maybe instead of a hand stamp at the door we should each get a little flashing LED a la BlinkM. Single straight men looking could have one color. Taken gay women another. Okay, so not everyone wants to advertise sexuality and relationship involvement. But it makes you realize that fireflies are pretty damn smart.