Author: Sam

Content Widening

Okay, so when WordPress was developed years ago flat-screen monitors with high resolutions weren’t really the rave yet, so the initial software was built for […]

Wildflower

We all drove down to Lake San Antonio near King City on Friday to compete in the annual Wildflower Triathlon.  Mrs V. raised over $3,300 […]

Dumb As We Wanna Be

After listening to proposals about suspending the federal excise tax on gasoline for the summer on NPR this morning, I was thinking about having a […]

The Emma Maersk

Country of origin: Denmark Length: 1,302 feet Width: 207 feet Net cargo: 123,200 tons Engine: 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP) Cruise speed: 31 […]

Photos of the Year

       Unfortunately I can’t take any credit for these masterpieces.  Kudos to National Geographic for these shots.

Petaluma Singletrack

A couple of shots of the local rides on the west side of town…  

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: […]