Tim's graduation ceremony was today (for the engineering college). The real speaker was pretty good, and had a few good worthwhile quotes to remember:
"If you haven't made a mistake you aren't working hard enough"
"Not taking any risks is risky" - or something along those lines.
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll be amongst the stars" (not so original, but worth repeating)

The other speaker, Ira A. Fulton, who has donated a boatload of cash to the university, I think should never speak at a graduation ceremony. After he finished making his jokes with varying degrees of inappropriatness, he did a fine job talking about himself and how he never dreamed about having so much money and his humble beginnings and how he's only allowed to give half of what he makes to the university. Sure, having a humble start and all that is good, and I assume (giving the benefit of the doubt) that his point was "anything is possible, set your goals high, etc. etc." - but he never really made the connection between "this is what has happened to me" to "this could be your future", etc etc. Ok, enough ranting.

After graduation we went to that Bamboo Club. I believe it was my suggestion, seconded by Tim. It was, as always, excellent... and the Gades family approved. Mmmm... lettuce wraps...