Author: Sam

Inga Dam

A lot of people probably think the building of a massive hydroelectric dam in a developing African nation is a good thing.  Economic stimulation, sustainable […]

No Sex at Deutsche Bank

Looks like the executives over at Deutsche are going to be forfeiting some of the pleasantries they’ve gotten used to.  I mean, c’mon, don’t you […]

Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade Art kindly shipped his second copy of this book to me from Seattle, a very enlightening and interesting read.  Given, […]

Willow Creek

  Wild irises and California poppies                California poppies   Highway One and the California coast   Lunch at the Fern Tree

California Cows

There’s a dairy on my drive home right on the Marin Sonoma county line that I’ve been trying to get a photo of all winter, […]

California Green

Too bad my hand’s not a little steadier, otherwise this photo of a hiking trail in the Marin Headlands could have been a keeper…

No Fresh Salmon This Year…

One thing I definitely do look forward to each summer is being able to buy fresh King Salmon at the supermarket here in northern Cali.  […]

Idol Stamps

There’s a lot of things I’m not overly keen on seeing, Taylor Hicks’ ugly mug on a postage stamp is of one of these things.  […]

Bear and Bernanke

While things have by no means calmed down in our capital markets, I have a bit of a break and am going to take Ferris […]

Bourbon and Branch

We celebrated BK turning 28 on Saturday with Bronte, Danielle and Jane down in the city.  Ben got put onto an awesome little bar called […]

WordPress 2.5

After blowing up this website on Friday and spending Friday afternoon as well as the better part of Saturday morning restoring the code from scratch, I’m […]

50,000,000 Dollar Note

Poor ol’ Zimbabwe, today marked the third time in three months that the Zimbabwean Central Bank has printed a higher denomination note.  The one today: […]

Big Air Time

There were some crazy moves being pulled at Sugarbowl last weekend…

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Luke took us to the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour last night, what an awesome event!  We were awed by a series of short […]

Castle Peak

Luke and I have been throwing around the idea of getting hold of some randonee skis for a while now, so with the nice weather […]

Is Airbus in the Euro Business?

All over the news today: the Pentagon chooses Airbus to revamp it’s super-tanker fleet, awarding an up to $100 billion (USD) contract to the French […]

Stop Talking About Commodities!

I sit here every day listening to the talking heads on CNBC, watching the headlines flash by on my screens, and seeing the newspaper finance […]

Number 29

A birthday that had it all: good friends, good food, an amazing cake (thanks Andi) and cupcakes (and Katrina), good music, me killing it at […]