Month: November 2008

Pirate Booty

A Saudi Arabian supertanker filled with two million barrels of crude oil was hijacked off east Africa and is now anchored close to the Somalian coast, […]

Organic Bar Anyone?

A friend of mine is conducting marketing research for a potential organic concept in San Fran, if you’ve got a sec’ to complete the survey […]

“Good To Great” Index Not So Great…

Circuit City Stores and Fannie Mae show that companies singled out as great don’t necessarily make worthwhile investments.  The companies were among 11 featured seven […]

Bail Out My Mortgage

I’ve kept quiet about this for quite some time.  Mostly because it’s probably a pretty sensitive topic for some people.  But, well, I can’t control […]

Early Snow!

Can someone please thank Chione for an early dump? Yee ha! (Chione, the snow-nymph, was the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and Oreithyia.)

Harvest Is Over!

The Young’s were kind enough to host a party last night to celebrate the end of the 2008 vintage, I think we counted something like […]

Infidel

Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mum gave me this book a while back and I read it earlier this year, just forgot to put it on […]

Yosemite, Muir Woods and Point Reyes

We had Tariq and Andrea visit us last weekend; with their recent move to New York City I’d been encouraging them since they moved to […]