Author: Sam

Blowing Up

The Pink Lemon has been experiencing some pretty elevated amounts of traffic this month.  In fact, I would say the site has been blowing up.  […]

Why Paulson is Wrong

Luigi Zingales Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance University of Chicago When a profitable company is hit by a very large liability, as […]

San Francisco Mornings

I was on late shift this week and CalTrans decided it would be a good idea to close a southbound lane on 101 in Terra […]

Is It Over Yet?

Now and then I put posts up here not so much for other people to read (although if they do that’s why this is on […]

Warehouse Robots

I just thought this was a pretty cool story when I heard it on the radio this morning on the way to work.  Click the […]

Marshall Oysters

We took a bit of an impromptu trip out to Marshall on Sunday, had a hankering for some of Tony’s (right)oysters.  As usual, we weren’t […]

Calistoga and Alexander Mountain

Mountains behind the town of Calistoga Grapes in the sunset on the Johnson ranch   The pickers on Alexander Mountain in one of the chardonnay […]

Night Golden Gate

Definitely had my heart beating thinking about the Zodiac story while I was getting these yesterday morning…

Big Trees And The Cabin

Carol and Greg had been talking about their Italian culinary experiences since returning from Europe, so they had us up to the cabin to demonstrate […]

LIBOR Under Attack

The article below from Risk Magazine (click on the image for the whole article).  Quite an interesting read, a very good insight into the interbank […]

Floating The American River

Who knew that you could float the American River from Folsom to Sacramento sitting in an innertube?!  I guess Andi and Jeffrey did, they took […]

Kirkwood Mountain Biking

Spent another couple of days up in the mountains this last weekend.  Weather was perfect, as usual for this time of year.  We spent Saturday […]

P-Town Birthday Shenanigans

These Irish car bombs weren’t sitting so well with me the next morning… Luke calculates how much he’s going to lie to Paul (left), and […]

Losing My Virginity

Losing My Virginity, Sir Richard Branson Another parting gift from TB when he left us last Christmas, thanks for a good read Big Fella.  This […]

Oil Staircase

We headed back to sub- $100 territory?  The last five days of oil futures trading…