April 2006

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my dinner with bill and the poc
04.20.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

so i was having dinner at bill’s house with poc jintao the other day - my buddy ron sims couldn’t make it btw, something about it being ‘date night’ and his wife not being invited - and we had a cool conversation.
bill was like all, “dude, you gotta do something about all that software piracy.” [...]
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Happy 0.5th birthday Niko!
04.16.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Happy 0.5th birthday Niko!

Originally uploaded by smooth.
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Hu Jintao visits the US
04.16.06 | Permalink | Comment?

Chinese president Hu Jintao visits the US for the first time, ditching the Ideologue in Chief to have dinner with Bill Gates
Tthe approximately 100-person guest list is a who’s who of the U.S. Pacific Northwest power elite, including Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz and Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire, said event organizers.
My invite must have been [...]
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iRobot
04.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?

I want to invest in iRobot, I really do. I’d love to have a Scooba clean our floors for us, and you’ve gotta believe that long term they can drop the price on those suckers and put one in every middle class household in the country.
But their military robots are over half the business, and [...]
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Tax bills of the rich and ideologue
04.15.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

From NPR:
According to the “first tax return,” President Bush made $735,180 in gross income last year, including his salary of about $400,000 and other investment income. He and Mrs. Bush paid $187,768 in taxes.
Interesting. But get this: Vice President Cheney and his wife Lynne brought in a gross household income of $8,819,006. After they gave [...]
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Squashing rumors
04.12.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Someone (usually that means Breean, but not this time) seems to be under the impression that the first REI store was built in Colorado. Dunno how that could be, when the company was founded in the Seattle area:
In 1938, mountain climbers Lloyd and Mary Anderson joined with 21 fellow Northwest climbers to found Recreational [...]
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The Bush clock - I need one
04.10.06 | Permalink | Comment?

Definitely need one of these:
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“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”
04.08.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

From Salon.com books. a review of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” bu Michael Pollan. Follow that path of our food through four different food chains: a mickey d’s drive thru, “a Whole Foods dinner, a meal raised on a “beyond organic” pasture farm in Virginia, and what Pollan labels the “Perfect Meal,” one whose ingredients he hunts [...]
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Vegas baby
04.04.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Veags baby
Originally uploaded by smooth.

You gotta like an airport with row after row of slot machines. Can I put money on UCLA/Florida for anyone?