A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
29 September 2008
House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge - NYTimes.com – wow. going to get uglier. i think main street wants to see people going to jail, i don’t think constituents are going to turn around and support this until some of the folks who got incredibly wealthy are brought down.
29 September 2008
Google Mac Developer Playground - Google Code – fun mac stuff here from google
29 September 2008
coconut-flavour.com - [coconutBattery 2.6.3]. - nice battery life/capacity monitor for the mac
28 September 2008
– good crowd looking at the Tesla this AM.
28 September 2008
ESPN - NCAA College Football Polls, College Football Rankings, NCAA Football Poll. – OSU up to 12 in USAToday, SC and Georgia are other 1-loss teams in front of them. Hard to argue with that, they both fought back after getting blown out in first halves. Big game next weekend at Wisconsin, a chance to impress voters with the new-look Buckeye offense
27 September 2008
Fall sailing schedule starts sunday. We were at the dock today and picked up the quota list – here you go
| Sailing Time | Quota | 640AM | 52 | 740AM | 39 | 1100AM | 22 | 135PM | 150 | 455PM | 46 (16 Sunday) | 535PM | 20 (70 Sunday) | 840PM | 46 | 115PM | No Quota. Saturday Only |
27 September 2008
| [The Big Picture | A Memo Found in the Street](http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/uncle-sam-the-e.html). Icahn is harsh too and advocates clawbacks. Gross willing to manage the assets for free so hopefully we don’t pay anyone a lot for this work. The longer this thing runs out, the less sympathetic I am to the bailout. And it appears Congress is not a pushover either so I guess that is good. |
27 September 2008
27 September 2008
| [Canon 5D Mark II | Tongfamily.com](http://www.tongfamily.com/2008/09/canon-5d-mark-ii/). – apparently already sold out at some sites. |
24 September 2008
* “The Black Tower”:amazon by Louis Bayard. Very engaging tale of conspiracy set during the French Restoration. Excellent characters, nicely ambiguous ending. * “The Blue Star”:amazon by Tony Earley. Coming of age tale during the early days of WWII. Love, pride, prejudice, fear, death, hope. A great little human story. * “The Book Of Lies”:amazon by Brad Meltzer. Da Vinci Code-ish, a nice beginning of biblical conspiracy, the origin of the Superman character, and your standard life threatening events. The middle slows a little but a sweet ending.
23 September 2008
Eleven Warriors » Thad in at End, Heyward Slides Over. – “For a group loaded with so many seniors, especially 5th-year guys, the starting 22 only features 8 of them” Some of the changes have been obvious (Pryor) but it is good to see the coaching staff responding to the underwhelming start of the season.
23 September 2008
| From [The Big Picture | The Innovator, the Imitator, the Idiot](http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/the-innovator-t.html): |
“Buffett once told me there are three ‘I’s in every cycle. The ‘innovator,’ that’s the first ‘I.’ After the innovator comes the ‘imitator.’ And after the imitator in the cycle comes the idiot.”
23 September 2008
Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Preview: Stanley 3-in-1 Tripod Flashlight. For the person who already has 37 flashlights and wants more.
23 September 2008
| [Canon EOD 5D Mark II, Sigma DP2 and Olympus Micro 4/3rds | Tongfamily.com](http://www.tongfamily.com/2008/09/canon-eod-5d-mark-ii-sigma-dp2-and-olympus-micro-43rds-2/). These all look awesome. |
23 September 2008
Sound & Vision Magazine - Ask The Expert: Cable Length Limits. Here is one article that suggests 6M is the max usable without getting funky. Trying to do a media room config and need to know this stuff. No obvious answer I can find for displayport but I bet it is similar.