Archive for July, 2008
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-07-31
@dougsymington Thanks! m.ping.fm works great! #
Someone tried to sell me medical marijuana on Venice Beach #
@alexkingorg Hope you fixed the date bugs #
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July 31st, 2008 by alephnaught
Venice Beach and Santa Monica
Nathan arrived last night, and today I figured we’d do a touristy, California kind of thing – the Venice Beach boardwalk.
And it was pretty fun. The sun was bright and the weather was good, and the people were out in force. At one point we were stopped by nurses trying to sell us [...]
July 30th, 2008 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-07-30
@daraghfi Small world! And shaky sometimes #
@paulrbrown USGS started at 8.4 and, after they got all their results, finished at 5.4 – huh? #
Ping.fm doesn’t work in the Blackberry web browser #
Waiting for my son in Van Nuys at FlyAway #
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July 29th, 2008 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-07-29
My first California earthquake – 8.5 centered in Chino Hills #
Welcome to California – earthquake at 11:51A at Chino Hills, 5.4 magnitude #
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July 29th, 2008 by alephnaught
Earthquake!
We had our inaugural earthquake today; it was centered under Chino Hills and measured 5.4. You can read about the quake on the USGS web site.
I was talking with my boss on the phone when the quake started. I noticed the vertical blinds swaying, and the floor started to move. I told [...]
July 28th, 2008 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-07-28
@amyhoy Sorry – RE: wish American banking would get up to date, Europeans are ahead of the curve now #
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July 28th, 2008 by alephnaught
Yet another hobby shop (this time nearby)
At lunch I went to Scale Model Stuff; this is a little hobby shop that carries a bunch of neat stuff, especially tools and Italian wood kits. I bought some modeling putty for my Rat Fink kit, some sand paper, and a wood Roman Catapult model kit (I’m lusting after the Tamiya motorized tramway [...]
July 28th, 2008 by alephnaught
New search site: Cuil
Its been a good day for reading the NY Times. I found an article (“Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine“) on a new search engine, Cuil (pronounced “cool”), that’s being built by former employees of Google. The Wall Street Journal also has an article, “Former Google Engineers Launch Search Engine.”
So I tried [...]
July 28th, 2008 by alephnaught
We are subsidizing the increased price of oil
This one should be obvious – governments subsidize the price of goods or add tariffs to imports as a way to stimulate the local economy. The problem is, you can’t just turn it off; when you do, people feel real pain as jobs are lost, capacity is lost, and the general economy depresses.
After reading [...]
July 28th, 2008 by alephnaught
Only loan money to people that can pay it back
I found this quote in the article, “Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans,” from the NY Times today:
“Mr. Epstein, forced to limit his production to what he can finance with his existing cash flow supplemented by his own money, has been tightening credit himself: He has been turning down orders from companies with any whiff [...]
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July 31st, 2008 by alephnaught