I found a couple of interesting videos shot by a mountain biker a couple of years ago, one at the summit of Montara Mountain and one on the descent via mountain bike into Montara. Kind of interesting if you haven’t been to the top before. Enjoy.
I found a couple of interesting videos shot by a mountain biker a couple of years ago, one at the summit of Montara Mountain and one on the descent via mountain bike into Montara. Kind of interesting if you haven’t been to the top before. Enjoy.
If you purchased $1000 of Bank of America stock one year ago, it would now be worth $204.
With Citigroup, you would have $147 left of the original $1,000.
With General Motors, you would have $0 left of your investment.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of BEER one year ago, consumed all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling price, you would have $80.52 and a bad hangover.
Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
It’s called the 401-Keg Plan.
OK – it’s not that funny, but a little gallows humor can’t really hurt, right?
I’m going to do something I haven’t done in a long, long time. Recommend a Microsoft product: Bing.com search engine. It’s actually good, the results are reasonable and I love the added information it brings to me when searching rather than having extra clicks to dig for it. Now, is it a Google killer? Hardly. But it is the first viable alternative to Google the industry has seen in some time.
I recommend you give it a whirl (don’t forget to tweak the search options in the top-left corner for optimal results…) Try bing.com.
While we’re at it, I also quite like Wolfram Alpha, not a search engine, more of a science and reference engine – it’s also quite good at what it does (hype from a few weeks ago notwithstanding.)
For the third year in a row, my daughter and I attended the Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend. While we both managed to have a good time, the crowd is now overwhelming, or perhaps the venue is simply way too small. The crowd was so thick at times, I had difficulty getting the two of us through from point A to point B.
As an example, we were 15 minutes early for the lifesize mousetrap and couldn’t get close enough to sneak a peek – highly disappointing to the munchkin who wanted to see the safe drop on the mouse’s head. We also couldn’t see the mock naval battles, the powertool drag races, or robot fighting on account of the crowd of large, relatively rude, people.
However, fun was had with Cyclecide’s bike merry-go-round, Emiko-O’s make your own jewelry, some great alternative instruments made out of old pianos, the Lego jeep, and my daughter loved the mobile muffins. So, we’ll try again next year, but here’s to hoping they get a better, bigger venue where the crowd can be handled a bit more efficiently.