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Be Prepared!

Silicon Valley Dazed — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:46:52 +0000

For all this cyclists who are always prepared.

Mini Ultra Stick with Turnigy 2217/1050kv, APC 10x5E, and Thunderbird 36

Silicon Valley Dazed — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:24:30 +0000

I like how the red on the Turnigy 2217/1050kv complements the red on the MUS, but I have a Motrolfly arriving soon since I want more POWER!

Bikram Yoga Is Taking a New York Yogi to Court – NYTimes.com

Silicon Valley Dazed — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:55:27 +0000

But Bikram Choudhury, the millionaire founder of Bikram Yoga, believes his kind of yoga belongs to him — he has even copyrighted it. Now, he has sued Yoga to the People for copyright infringement, seeking monetary damages and asking a federal judge to block Yoga to the People from offering its hot yoga class.

“We sent an investigator to take the classes,” Robert Gilchrest, Mr. Choudhury’s lawyer, said on Thursday. “The classes were virtually mirror images and the dialogue was consistently the same.”

Despite yoga’s long history, Mr. Gilchrest said that Mr. Choudhury had the right to claim his own 26-posture sequence and the instructor’s dialogue.

via Bikram Yoga Is Taking a New York Yogi to Court – NYTimes.com.

Yes, it does sound silly, but the lawyers and yoga masters will figure it out. Personally, I’d rather be outside if I’m going to work out and sweat.

Uncle Ray – American Patriot

Silicon Valley Dazed — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:08:47 +0000

Giving defined greatness of genuine American hero

E and I watched Captain America last weekend, but I had the privilege of meeting a real World Word 2 patriot whenever I would see Jen’s Uncle Ray in Massachusetts. I’ll always remember his warm smile and his strong handshake. Once we got to talking about Once Upon a Time in the West, and he told me he didn’t like it because Henry Fonda played the bad guy. Too bad I didn’t have more conversations with him. Thank you for all you gave to your country and community. R.I.P.

Stockbrokers call me and speaking in Mandarin

Silicon Valley Dazed — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:18:19 +0000

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.

Elena Kagan story and profile in the N.Y. Times

Silicon Valley Dazed — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:00:02 +0000

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 Harvard or Yale Law graduates on the bench if she’s confirmed because the confirmation hearings can be so contentious. If a nominee isn’t from the right school, it will make it easier for the opposing political party to make a point that the nominee isn’t qualified.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/politics/10kagan.html?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/politics/10court.html

iPad review – media consumption device

Silicon Valley Dazed — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:14:21 +0000

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 is a completely new experience — and a deeply satisfying one.

Blood from diving accident forces egress at Eagle Park Pool.

Silicon Valley Dazed — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:52:45 +0000

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 ambulance took him away, but lifeguards had to do full wipedown with bleach of all areas contaminated with blood. Wonder what the general protocol for a public pool is when blood has contaminated the waters. Do they pump in more chlorine than usual for awhile and then bring chlorine levels back to normal in the system? What if one drop of blood full of ebola hit a public pool…

Santa Rosa Plums

Silicon Valley Dazed — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:37:32 +0000

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.

Yahoo shuts down Geocities

Silicon Valley Dazed — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:32:06 +0000

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.