April 20th, 2009

We had 90 degrees yesterday, 94 today, and 92 tomorrow. “Cooling off” to 79 on Wednesday.  And softball three nights a week.  Gotta love it! -Nick

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April 19th, 2009

I got an official-looking notice in the mail yesterday from the “Annual Review Board” of California, asking me to send them my LLC Statement of Information along with a $228 processing fee.  There was a very tight deadline for sending it in, with a steep penalty for being late. I was thinking I better put [...]

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April 16th, 2009

This bar-graph tracks the number of pirates killed by each US President since 1897, when records started being kept. Graph courtesy of BuzzFeed.com. -Nick

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April 16th, 2009

I’m in the middle of my monthly inventory evaluation, which involves taking stock of all my existing shoe ads, and creating new ones for new products.  This takes roughly 100 hours and I just like to get it done so I basically work non-stop trying to get through it. Yesterday I learned the hard way [...]

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April 14th, 2009

The “crowds” (Amazon reviewers) liked James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, so I checked it out and read it poolside in Cabo.  I wasn’t a huge fan. While the book had a few interesting tidbits, it was mostly filled with less-than-insightful passages explaining why our collective intelligence can actually be pretty smart.  For example, it [...]

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April 13th, 2009

This weekend was our first adventure into overnight babysitting.  The victims were our neighbors, Isabel and Zoe, ages 4 and 2.  They’re really good kids but we were pretty much worn out by the end.  Kudos to mom and dad for doing it every other day of the year. We shut down the San Jose [...]

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