Archive for the ‘Random stuff’ Category

this blog at geocities

This is cool, now that GeoCities is gone I kindda miss these ridiculous sites. Well I guess now they moved to My/Face. If this blog were hosted at geocities it would look like this or like this (I like the animated gif of Gates).

Op-Ed Columnist – The Sandra Bullock Trade – NYTimes.com

Kindda took a hiatus from my blog, was browsing around NYT and found this pretty interesting… According to one study, joining a group that meets even just once a month produces the same happiness gain as doubling your income. According to another, being married produces a psychic gain equivalent to more than $100,000 a year. [...]

Off to Tahoe tomorrow, oh yeah!

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Tomorrow is Sierra‘s opening day, and we plan to be there! Oh yeah! We will see how the Smart car performs at the mountains. I don’t think the back gates or West Bowl are open yet, but I don’t care, just riding down a bit of Sugar-n-Spice and Lower Main will [...]

Toles, November 5th, 2008

YES WE CAN!

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It’s been a year…

We lost Fee-Fee a year ago, we miss him dearly. In the past year, we got Bear, picked up snowboarding, I changed jobs and then switched to consulting full-time, launched a side project, we got new Macs, new phones, went to Asia twice, etc, but we still think about him all the times and we [...]

poor doggie

From Shanghaiist… A dog in Changsha, Hunan province, stays by the dead carcass of his good friend, which has just been knocked down by a car. As if unwilling to believe that his companion had died, he tries to wake her up with his paws, and when he realises that he is unable to awake [...]

NYT Econ Journalist David Cay Johnston: It Doesn’t Add Up

From Open Left. NYT Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill, has written a letter to fellow journalists that deserves wide attention, urging a fundamentally skeptical approach to reporting on this purported crisis, warning against repeating the [...]

Tweets on 2008-09-16

anyone got experience with Zecco or TradeKing online brokerage? or any other rec? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Tweets on 2008-09-15

got multiapp working on a single ec2onrails instance with EBS and the goods… fuck, should’ve just started from plain ubuntu AMI… # running 6 mongrels per app was a very bad idea! # gonna go for a run, the nike+ training program is good motivation to keep running… # @seoulfully alright, then we’ll setup a [...]