Sepideh Saremi

I’m bored of the Internet.

So, after a long time of seeing my dream professional life as a big mystery or something out of reach or very convoluted, today I had a clear glimpse of what I want as an attainable thing, something that combines a lot of the things I am good at with a medium I’ve never tried. […]

I don’t know if this is about disillusion or just hitting a new point on the learning curve, but yesterday I realized that 99% of the people I admire, I don’t actually admire. That is, I admire the things they’ve accomplished, but I’m not necessarily into them as people. It is unfair to them and […]

I don’t really get the concept of valet parking at all, because I don’t ever want someone else to drive my car. At the LAX Hilton, where I went to the opening of a film festival last night, they make it next to impossible to find the self-parking lot, so you get suckered into a […]

This New York Times article on haggling at big-box stores (“At Megastores, Hagglers Find Prices Are Flexible”) made me laugh out loud, and not just because it uses the word dicker, but because my people have been haggling the crap out of everything everywhere for, like, 2500 years. And lots of other people do this, […]

Someone needs to make a Twitter-like microblog platform for reviews with character-count limits. Reviews of all kinds, not just of restaurants. One site with lots of micro-content prongs. Feel free to steal this idea. It would be a good mobile site. A micro city magazine. Yeah! I’d read that.
So many Yelpers write New Yorker-length essays […]

There’s a lot more to write about my trip, all the reasons I didn’t want to come back home, but I want to get all the materialistic stuff out of my system first. You’ve been warned.
Something about traipsing up and down all those hills makes it really hard to gawk at people like you can […]