Saturday 2009 - Edition 2

Been a bit crazy this week as my MBA classes are getting into full swing and we are in the process of training a new secretary at work. Not as bad as it normally would be as I have plenty of work experience with Ashlee (~8 years at the Energy Program together).

It is also looking much more definite that I will have roommates in about a month (Doug and Avery). Should be a very interesting and vitalizing transition. I know Forrest is looking forward to having more laps to sit on and a cat to bother. I am realizing that using my two spare bedrooms as dumping grounds for random boxes and other items for the last two years is now a decision that is going to bit me in the ass. Clean Up! Isle 2... and 3. >.<




I was hoping to have round 2 of the December photos (Christmas) up this weekend, but its going to have to wait until Edition 3 at least...maybe longer. Do I smell a Christmas in July edition? Who knows.

Onto this weeks fun (and frightening) links. I actually don't have any of Master Pilot and owner of huge balls of steal Chesley Sullenberger (The US Air / Hudson River). Could he have been any more qualified? You know Airlines should charge premium for flights by guys like him. I'd pay.


On the note of flying crashes, I bring you - Shit happens fast:



Two notes: 1) There was sufficient evidence that the helicopter was sabotaged (dirt in the gas tank). 2) No, dumbass - don't get out of the crashed and probably burning wreckage.


Laugh time - a bunch of elevator pranks. I've seen a couple of these, but not all. What a riot of a good time:




I do not think this qualifies as a "slow controlled burn". Dad? Scott? Mind weighing in.




The coolest guy in science right now (in my opinion) talking about a very large asteroid that has at least a decent chance of hitting the earth. Interesting to hear about, and he's kind of funny for a genius:



Lastly and least seriously. Nice to see that brilliant people in the world still know exactly what people need on the iPhone.

Saturday 2009 - Edition 1

A new year, and back to the grind I go; mainly school. I have Marketing & Finance classes to tackle this quarter. Going to have some interesting deliverable to work through I fear. For the blog, I am going to yet again attempt to have some random updates, chat, links and other things every Saturday. We'll see how long I can keep it up. I'm still working through all my pictures from the break I took in December. The first round is from my week in Vancouver.









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Bank of England rate to its lowest in history (1.5%). Think about that again. IN
ITS HISTORY. That's over 315 years; founded in 1694. That is the power of the derivatives' market. Doesn't seem like such a surprise anymore that Warren Buffet called these thing Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction. .. IN 2003. Yes. 2003. And you wonder why those of us in business think Buffet is an absolute genius.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7817453.stm
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How to become your own web sherpa; Learn google's tricks(7minutes):


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A 20 minute speech from Mike Rowe - both entertaining and insightful. He somehow manages to talk about having a pair of testicles on his chin, in a very insightful way.

http://fora.tv/2008/12/12/Mike_Rowe_on_Discovery_Realization_and_Lamb_Castration
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If there is another website I'd say to checkout everyday, its the photos over at the Boston globe.

Everything is more badass (deadly) in Australia ... even Christmas:

A man dressed as a Krampus, traditionally the companion of St. Nicholas who might dole out punishment to bad children. One of Austria's unique Advent traditions, this man is seen as a part of a Krampus procession in the city of Unken, Austria on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

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A month break?!?

So, I took December off. From just about everything and everyone.

School starts on Monday - so, I'll be back in the swing of things here very shortly. Not really sure how much I'm going to keep the blog up or not. Also "Resolution Challenge 2009" seems to be in danger of being pushed to 2010 or 2011; not really sure how much interest (personally and externally) there is.

Thanksgiving

Some pictures from Thanksgiving:

Not dead

I know I've received a couple worried voice mails.


I'm not dead. Just busy. =)


Nothing to post either, unless you're interested in the regressed housing prices for the greater Tacoma area, the 20+ page report on it, and a slew of other things that would cure insomnia.

Take a couple minutes out of your day

...and read and look at the current pictures out of the Congo.


http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/congos_crisis_worsens.html

A Congolese child carries two boxes of high nutrition cookies inside the courtyard of the Mercy Corps clinic where the UNICEF and the IMC (International Medical Corps) distributed the cookies, mostly to Internally Displaced People (IDPs) living in a camp in Kibati about 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) north of the provincial capital of Goma, on November 4, 2008. (WALTER ASTRADA/AFP/Getty Images)

Just try to take those cookies away.