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New Hindu Goddess statue, Kali
I have a set of statues of Hindu gods at work – I started collecting them when I worked at Classmates.com, and one day the women on the team (the team was more than half female) came into my office and wanted to know why there were no goddesses. Oops. Not wanting an HR scene, […]
October 2nd, 2011 by alephnaught
The Magic Charger from Mobee Technology
I got a Magic Mouse with my Mac Pro, and I’ve had a lot of issues with batteries – it doesn’t use them especially quickly, but it’s not great about warning me as the battery charge goes down, and eventually the mouse doesn’t respond properly to movement. I was walking around the local Apple Store […]
October 2nd, 2011 by alephnaught
September 25th, 2011 by alephnaught
Photos from Pasadena
We decided to bundle up the dogs and go to Pasadena – Aviva noticed a show up at a gallery we hadn’t heard of, she wanted a catalog and you could only get it there. Our first stop was Offramp Gallery, which has a show up of Lisa Adam’s new work, titled “Born This Way.” […]
September 17th, 2011 by alephnaught
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain (book review)
Title: Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur Author:Ryan Blair Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover; Reprint edition (August 4, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1591844037 ISBN-13: 978-1591844037 This book showed up out of the blue – I got an email from the publisher letting me know a […]
September 12th, 2011 by alephnaught
Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing (review)
Title: Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing Author: Kate Vitasek (Author), Mike Ledyard (Author), Karl B. Manrodt (Author) Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1St Edition edition (February 2, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0230623174 ISBN-13: 978-0230623170 I’ve gotten myself into another outsourcing effort. On the plus side, the company selected a vendor that […]
September 11th, 2011 by alephnaught
Pictures from Hollywood
A few pictures from Hollywood yesterday along with a picture of a really good food truck I tried on Wednesday. We first stopped at Wacko, a great fun store and gallery. We also had a great meal at Il Capriccio on Vermont; Aviva’s pasta was clearly handmade, mine perhaps less clearly. Aviva had a squid […]
September 5th, 2011 by alephnaught
August 21st, 2011 by alephnaught
Dark Delicacies (Book review)
Title: Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horror Writers Author:Del Howison (Editor), Geff Gelb (Editor) Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Carroll & Graf (August 31, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 0786716762 ASIN: B00127SGSS I got this book at the bookstore Dark Delicacies, and yes, they published this collection of horror […]
October 19th, 2011 by alephnaught