There were some crazy moves being pulled at Sugarbowl last weekend…
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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 […]
Man Puts Out Girlfriend’s Cigarette with Fire Extinguisher
Angered by his girlfriend’s smoking, a German man used a fire extinguisher to put out her cigarette. The apartment now looks like it snowed inside […]
Packer’s Lunch
Packer’s Lunch, Neil Chenoweth Mum gave me Packer’s Lunch as a Christmas present last year, what an eye-opener! Although I’m sure it exists here as […]
New Providence and Staniel Cay
With all the wet weather we’ve been having, we decided it was time for a bit of sun during winter so we ventured southeast to […]
Marching Powder
Marching Powder, Rusty Young I didn’t just read this, I read it years ago when a friend of mine put me onto it. But, I wanted […]
Sugarbowl Pow
Another Sierra storm dumped a few feet of fresh powder on the mountains over the past few days. We battled a closed Interstate 80 yesterday morning, sat […]
Scar Tissue
Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis I don’t think this would be the type of book I’d usually pick up in the book store, but I must […]
Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb Just finished this one, pretty good read, reminded me a lot of my Behavioral Finance class at Cal. If […]
Taos Winter Wine Festival
The winemaker of the family was asked to represent Kendall-Jackson at the Taos Winter Wine Festival this last weekend in Taos, New Mexico. Somehow I […]
Jim’s 30th in San Luis Obispo
We took a trip down memory lane in San Luis Obispo on the weekend to celebrate Jim’s 30th birthday. The gig was at Downtown Brew […]
Work Schedule
I found a pretty good proxy for my work schedule craziness this morning: The JP Morgan G7 Currency Volatility Index. Anything above an 8.0 is […]
Michaela’s Birthday
Had an awesome dinner at Della Fattoria downtown last night for Michaela’s birthday with Annie, Kevin, Brian and Juana. Food was amazing, slow cooked beef […]
Winter Storm Hits Northern California
We spent this last weekend at the cabin with Andi and her boyfriend Jeffrey, battling our way up to the mountains on Friday night on […]
Word of the Year
“In its 18th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “subprime” as the word of the year. Subprime is an adjective […]