Received a calll from a stockbroker today who started speaking to me in Mandarin. Told him my Chinese wasn’t too good, and he said, “I can speak Engish, man!” I told him goodbye in Chinese. The economy must be picking up.
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Am I shallow for wondering why there’s no mention of Kagan’s romantic life in her profile? It was a big surprise to me that if Kagan’s confirmed, there will be 6 Catholics and 3 Jewish justices - I always thought of the Supreme Court as a WASP bastion. I’m thinking that there will be only [...]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/technology/personaltech/01pogue.html?ref=technology
Key quote:
And the techies are right about another thing: the iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on. For most people, manipulating these digital materials directly by touching them [...]
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Person cutting his head going off the diving board at Eagle Park forced egress of everyone out of the pool and shutdown until the next day. Jen noticed this guy sitting on chair and lifeguards attending to him with fluid dripping down his neck which turned out to be blood. He was conscious when the [...]
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Picked the last of the Santa Rosa plums yesterday. Fortunately, the squirrels didn’t get all of them this year. I love fruits with a heady fragrant scent. Probably why I also love lychees.
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Yahoo shuts down Geocities
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/
Weird, since I was just checking out the Stevens Creek Trail on a Geocities page this morning:
http://www.geocities.com/rhorii/StevensCrkTrl/StevensCrkTrl.html
I always thought the pages on the site were a mess. Can’t believe Geocities was purchased for $2.8 billion back in 1999.
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Listened to Michael Bolton on CD while I drove to work this morning in my parents’ car. What inspiring music for my morning drive!
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Just opened some new Seagate 500Gb ST3500418AS drives, and they’re about 6 mm thinner than the older SATA drives I have.
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Ran 5 miles this morning at RSA. Before my run, I had a short flight with the Pitts S2. It was cold this morning, but I was fine after the first 1/2 mile. Notable thing I saw when I came back was a Slow Stick that did a ground loop and strike the ground 5 [...]
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I really need this for my 3-mile commute http://www.sevencycles.com/articles/090320_earth_day_bike.php
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