Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek) will be in town and playing next Wednesday, April 29th, 8pm, at Berklee. Tickets are $20 each (General Admission). Who wants to come with me? I plan to acquire tickets tomorrow, so let me know by 12noon if you want me to get you a ticket, or you can get them on your own ( Read more... )

Today is 3 years.

I think I've got a plan for my Napa Winery Tour tomorrow:

Start at either Sterling or Duckhorn, then on to ZD, then Chandon, then visit Black Stallion and/or Mondavi, and finally end at Merryvale.

Call my cell if you want to meet up along the way.

For those who aren't on the mountainviewers mailing list, I'll be out in the SF Bay Area March 15-28. I'll be spending March 15-20 down in Menlo Park / Palo Alto and then March 22-28 in SF. I want to spend that weekend (March 20-22) in Wine Country, and I'm trying to organize a group to go with me ( Read more... )

http://kradical.livejournal.com/1536281.html

From jessiehl

Not too bad IMHO.


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According to this article from the NYT (note the "publshed date" of 1999!) they predicted the subprime loan collapse.  From the article:

In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized ( Read more... )

For personal reference when I look for this later..   This is just damn cool!

http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

But of course not to be outdone, a beta version: robot

Okay, so maybe I shouldn't be so excited about having ice, but it's a result of having a new fridge, and having that fridge installed, and it has a water line.. and an ice maker..  So I have fresh ice!   Yay!

For many years I've contracted with Jeppesen for updates to my GPS.  For all those years I've been using a PCMCIA device to program the GPS cards which required me to reboot into Windows to run their win32-only software.  A few years ago they introduced a USB-based solution but I didn't want to pay $150 (a second time -- I had to pay $150 for the ( Read more... )