[Click for a larger version of the picture.] Jenny & I took a day-trip to Yosemite yesterday. It’s a little too far away to only spend one day there (360 miles or 580 km round trip from San Francisco), but definitely worth the effort. We went on a hike on the western edge of the [...]
Chance that a British baby’s first word is a brand name: 1 in 4. –Harper’s Index 2004 I’d like to see some of the details behind this study…
The oil slick off the Louisiana cost is still expanding and is now approaching coastal marshes. The Coast Guard is now going to try to set fire to the slick in the hopes of dissipating the oil. Some commentators have (jokingly?) suggested that the US should simply nuke the slick and move on, like the [...]
I just came across a really interesting blog: Ara is a sixty-something French-born Armenian chef riding around the US on a motorcycle together with his dog, Spirit. Check it out. The pictures are great, the writing is even better, and his journey is inspiring, to say the least.
… and I’ll tell you why. This is only one of a many commercials like this. You may have seen one from Sprint that’s very similar: three people are stuck on a ski lift, and the commercial talks about how these three people have awesome Sprint phones so they can visit an alternate reality (be [...]
