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Close-up of the sticker on the machine

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They got a nice espresso machine at work, it’s a bit used, and I’m not sure if the grinder is dialed in, but it has boiler and pump pressure gauges, I think it’s made by ECM.
They store the beans in the freezer [...]

Santana Row
Certainly wouldn’t mind living there, I’m guessing the 1BR apartments go for around $2k/month… I shouldn’t…

Wow, these are definitely cool:

Canon PowerShot SD30 / IXUS i Zoom:

Man, Canon surely been busy working on new cameras… the SD450 is very interesting… I sold my PowerShot S100 (aka Digital IXUS), might pick up one of these SD450 is the CA (purple fringing) isn’t as bad as the SD400.
Canon PowerShot SD450 & SD550:
Two more additions to the Canon ultra-compact line are the new five [...]

So the EOS 5D is real:

Canon EOS 5D, full-frame 12.8 megapixel: Digital Photography Review
Canon USA’s official link
$3.3k, that’s quite a bit of change, don’t think this is better than the D2x, which is just a couple of hundred bucks more. Couple points from brief inspection of the specs:

more MP is good, especially if you’re like [...]

Interesting, Chinese low-cost ASIC design engineer body shop, the day is near…
VeriSilicon - Profile:
HQ: SHANGHAI, China Founded: 2001 Management: CEO is Wayne Dai, who was the Co-Chairman and CTO of Celestry Technologies, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. Prior to that, he was the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Ultima Interconnect [...]

I can’t believe Whole Foods does not have a store locator at their website; one where you enter a zip code or address and they find you the closest ones. This is insane!! Their store locations link doesn’t really do much good when I have no idea where the heck Campbell or Fresno or Petaluma [...]

Did a ton of shopping today, at Valley Fair, that place was like a real mall, not like the little malls in Austin… This is the real shit, like the Mall of America in Minnesota, with covered parking garage on the sides, and a road that surrounds the malls. I like it here that a [...]

Haha, last time I went there with Kevin and Shirley, they got water dripping from the pipes, service was mediocre, and when I left only 10% tip the waitress bitched about it. BURN! (HAHA! j/k)…
BREAKING NEWS! Warehouse District on Fire!:
Well, not quite. But enormous smoke clouds are billowing out of what [...]