September 2007

The Archives

personal
Shutterfly: please fix your crap
09.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Dear Shutterfly: please fix your crappy OS X software so that it works as a non-root user. Thanks.
business, finance, personal
Mad Money by Jim Cramer
09.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Breean checked out Mad Money by Jim Cramer from the library for me the other day. I was pretty skeptical cause he’s such a nutcase but the book is actually pretty good. I recommend it for some pretty simple but reasonable investing advice.
personal
Red Bull Soapbox Race comes to Seattle
09.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

We went to see the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Fremont yesterday. Apparently it’s in a different city every year and this year was Seattle’s turn.
Breean’s favorite the Rollin’ Troll of Fremont came in third.

I liked Team Spicoli (no pic) but fittingly they did not place.
travel
Why does the LAX terminal 3 food suck so much
09.27.07 | Permalink | Comment?

When you fly out of terminal 3 at LAX (Alaska and a couple other small airlines) the food choices consist of Starbucks, Burger King, a CPK “Express” (how can a place that calls itself CPK not have pizza?) and some crappy sports bar. This is 2007 people! Airports like Seattle, Denver and SF all have [...]
business, travel
limo4me: the best Seattle town car service
09.27.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Because my 2002 post about flying to Phoenix somehow gets enough search traffic that somebody recently offered me $35 to place an ad on that page (still waiting on the reply!), I thought I would point out a business I’ve been using and highly recommend.
When we moved to Seattle two years ago, I knew very [...]
personal, travel
Saturday night in a yurt
09.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

We spent Saturday in Yurt #4 in the Yurts at Kayak Point. If you haven’t spent a night in a yurt before, I highly recommend it.
While it was certainly exciting when our key would no longer open the deadbolt and the park ranger had to break the window (okay, pry out the plexiglass) to open [...]
business, news
Women earning more than men
09.24.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

From the nyt: Putting Money on the Table:

For the first time, women in their 20s who work full time in several American cities - New York, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis - are earning higher wages than men in the same age range, according to a recent analysis of 2005 census data by Andrew Beveridge, a [...]
travel
CNN goes to Ithaca
09.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

From CNN.com (thanks Thanh): In the lush land of the Finger Lakes.
Lately we’ve been thinking about Ithaca and the farmer’s market and Solaz Burritos and the apples (and apple donuts mmmm)…
personal
How does the carbon credit market work
09.09.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

A friend of mine was telling me this week about someone who drives a big SUV but buys carbon credits to assuage his liberal guilt. Does that work the other way?
If Joe Blow can buy carbon credits can he also sell them? For the right price I could certainly be persuaded to telecommute for a [...]