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The ajax tool in Google Finance is great for getting a little perspective on the markets, especially when they go crazy like they have been since the beginning of the year. You can see that the market looks totally crazy, but if you use the stretcher bars and lengthen the time line you see that… Read more »

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I am still here, in hell. My recent post about trying to buy a Pre-Amp is still an ongoing customer service infinite loop. 1. Order a product 2. Discover product doesn’t have a power supply 3. Return Product 4. Customer service is nice and apologetic offers to reship product with power supply and take money… Read more »

I am spending a little time over the past week or so cleaning up my messy desks at home and at work. I tend to accumulate lots of little odds and ends on my desks. My work one is pretty good if I keep the papers in order but my home desk gets messy quickly… Read more »

I never thought it would be so hard to buy a working product. The comedy of errors around the Chameleon Labs 7602 pre-amp channel strip is truly epic in proportions. I am defeated and I have given up on the idea of owning one of these. I had heard some really good reviews of this… Read more »

I was waiting for the bus this morning and I was happy to see a totally empty 7 coming around the corner. The 7 starts right by my house in the upper haight and goes either to Van Ness or all the way downtown. Most of the time the 7 is a double bus so… Read more »

I have been super busy at work doing stuff for CES, the Consumer electronics show in Vegas, so I have not had much time to do anything else. Once these jobs are over I will take a couple of days just to do some sleeping.

We waited at the Portland airport for about 3 1/2 hours Thursday while our plane was pushed back over and over again because of problems in Seattle, which you can drive to in about 3 hours. After we finally got on the plane at around 9:30pm we are loaded onto a tiny commuter jet with… Read more »

We drove around Portland some more today after a nice breakfast at Biscuits on NE Sandy and 52nd. We went downtown and look in some art galleries and then dropped by Powell’s Technical Books, which has some really cool stuff. Alanna had to get some stuff, and if we didn’t need to fly back on… Read more »

We had a great Christmas day opening presents and laughing and cooking. We got so much booty that it will be hard to get it all on the plane when we leave. We even got some snow falling around Portland for a little while. mmm snow for Christmas.