Archive For May, 2010
You’ve probably seen the ads recently about this one girl who sets out to meet her facebook friends in person. I thought it was an interesting idea. It made me think about how true “friendships” can’t be quantified. I have over 400 “friends,” yet many of these people I haven’t seen or spoken to in [...]
I was excited to participate in the San Francisco Bay to Breakers madness for the first time on Sunday. It’s a 12k race across the city, but as far as I can tell, very few people actually run it. Never seen that many drunk people that early in the morning. BART was a freak show [...]
Monday, Neil and I went to the A’s-Mariners game in Oakland. It was just a lucky night all-around. Sunday was Cliff Lee and Tuesday was King Felix. Monday? Ryan Rowland-Smith and his 7.62 ERA. The skies opened up and let loose the only forecast rain all week. In fact, the rain was really Rowland-Smith’s only [...]
Working from home allows me to spend plenty of quality time with the pooch. Although he spends most of it sleeping, sometimes we go outside. These are actually from Saturday. Fetching and bringing it back. Making progress. Whew that was fun. And I’m spent.
Satellite radio is an interesting business model. They have extremely high overhead (satellites definitely aren’t cheap), but the marginal cost of additional customers is basically zero. Their satellites are already up there beaming signals down to earth; if the signal hits one receiver or a million, it’s all the same to them. In December, mom [...]
