Joel Gross's Blog

I am 29, Jordan is 27, Justin is 25, and Josh is 19.

Combined we have 100 years of life between us.

I think this deserves some sort of celebration but I am not sure what. Ideas?

Josh and I went rock climbing over Memorial Day weekend to Bishop and Alabama Hills. We stayed in Tuttle Creek Campground. Evan Goodman and Tolga came too along with two older ladies one who had kids and also Evan’s friend Kristen. We climbed Shark’s fin (three 5.7s) and movie wall (5.7, 5.9, 5.10a). Next time we go I would like to plan better what routes we do so we can get more rock climbing in.… read more “Rock Climbing in Bishop and Alabama Hills”

After Bay to Breakers got boring for me around 1:30pm, I separated from the main group and ran three miles to Planet Granite so I could do some rock climbing. After arriving I climbed for three and a half hours and met a lot of interesting people; two partners who founded a ycombinator startup together, a german couple new to the area and a weird bald guy.… read more “After Bay to Breakers Today”

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I attended the Bay to Breakers event today in San Francisco with my group of friends. We went as the Street Fighter video game from the 90s and I was Sagat. Pretty fun event with great weather.

Our dog monster is sick because she ate chocolate and that can cause kidney failure in dogs. Frida is in the hospital now. She should be okay because we pumped her stomach within an hour but she still has elevated levels of bad stiff in her blood. She is in the hospital for three days to try to clean out her kidneys.… read more “Monster”

I went on a really fun bike ride today with my friends Kenny, Brian, Nick and their friends. We started in downtown, went to the beach then made our way across the Golden Gate Bridge. The ride took almost six hours but was a great time. We had perfect clear sunny weather and enjoyed ourselves.

I think this is awesome. The world is going to continue to become a vastly better place very rapidly as more people have access to to open online courses!