Archive for February, 2005

Still no mid-life crisis car

So a few weeks ago I started looking at crazy sports cars, like an old Porsche 928. Having my mid-life crisis a little early, I want to have a nice fast car. But no luck so far, and I’m beginning to think I’ll give up for a while.
One of the places I’ve been looking […]

Carly gets canned

Well, officially Carly Fiorina has quit as the CEO of HP. It certainly looks like she’s been forced out though–just a couple weeks ago there were reports the HP board was re-distributing responsibilities. You can’t do that and expect the CEO to stay–the board went around her and she responded the way anybody would in […]

White people really can’t dance

Wow, looks like people in North American really ain’t got no rhythm compared to the rest of the world. Scientists have shown people from North America have a harder time picking up irregular rhythms than people from other parts of the world.
The interesting thing is that it’s not really a racial thing–infants from North America […]

Disappointing House of Daggers

Went to the Village 8 last night to see House of Flying Daggers. The whole experience sucked, which may be why I didn’t really like the movie that much.
First off, they’ve raised prices again–the evening shows are now $3.50 while matinees remain $3.00. Second price increase in less than a month. The last time, […]

Did my part to support Martha Stewart & KMart

The laundry basket that’s been with me forever, the one I’ve dragged from Houston to New Hampshire to San Francisco to Emeryville to Louisville, has finally given up the ghots. I suppose I could have eeked out a few more weeks with it–it’s not totally broken, there’s just large cracks that appeared in two […]

CarFax is very useful

I’ve been having a bit of a mid-life crisis, looking at used sports cars that I shouldn’t buy but desperately want to buy. It’s probably a tad early to be having the mid-life, I’m not yet 40. But hey, might as well get it out of the way now.
So I’ve also been perusing […]

Layoffs upstairs

Well, the HR guy from San Francisco was here, which we all know is a bad sign. He’s known as the Angel of Death, because the only reason they fly him out here is to lay people off. So it was a group of people from upstairs who got the axe.
Of course it […]

Sony announces PSP pricing & availability

A bit of a disappointment–Sony says their PSP will sell for $250 when it arrives in North America on March 24. That’s about $70 more than the rumours, which had been speculating about a $179 price-point. Probably the weakness in the dollar is part of the equation, plus the high demand which no […]

R.I.P. Enterprise

Well, the writing’s been on the wall for a while but UPN finally pulled the trigger and killed Enterprise. Not that I’ve been watching it regularly but still, it’s kindof a bummer. It means maybe that the Star Trek franchise has run its course.
Definitely the last Star Trek movie, Nemesis, was a disappointment both […]

Google isn’t so great at searching the little sites

Okay, so Google had a great fiscal quarter but I’m beginning to wonder about the scope of their search engine. I think it doesn’t quite crawl to the far corners of the Web, and that good data is probably missing from their index. I know it doesn’t have to be completely comprehensive to be useful […]