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No it’s not some strange island nation’s marital practice. It’s Texas.
So lets say you were getting married and you wanted a special cake. Now of course the first thing you’d think of was lets have a cake that a life size replica of me in my wedding dress! Brilliant!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/01/07/cake.irpt/index.html
All I gotta say is couldn’t she [...]

I was listening to On The Media on NPR this morning and there was a segment on life logging. Life logging is a concept where you digitally archive all of your conversations, documents, photos, etc. There is a researcher from Microsoft who wears a camera around his neck that takes a photo of what he’s [...]

Stephen Colbert took over Maureen Dowd’s column last sunday.
Oh, and he announced his candidacy for President of the United States last night.

So he didn’t win the presidency back in 2000 – so what? Seems like he’s winning all the popularity contests these days…
Academy Award (Oscar)? Check.
Emmy Award? Check.
Nobel Peace Prize? Check.
NY Times: Prize Caps Year of Highs for Gore

Quite often I’ll hear friends, family and coworkers talk about how an email or IM sounded. As in..sounded angry or pissed off. I usually point out the problem with this…emails don’t have sound. So it’s just their interpretation of it and not worthing getting upset over. Unless someone uses some meta tags and prolific [...]

There is an interesting article in the NY Times about a challenge to get women owned business to $1M in revenues. The most telling thing in it is that most female owners’ goals are to “maintain the business” while male owners’ goals are to “grow the business”.
NYTimes: A Capital Idea for Women

The Fortress Resort in Sri Lanka is claiming the title (and tons of free press) of world’s most expensive dessert. However in my mind it’s cheating if you throw say…..a $14,490 jewel into your dessert. Inedible “ingredients” shouldn’t count.
Sorry Sri Lanka. Same goes for those $10000 martinis that come with rubies and such. No [...]

The Euro reached an all-time high against the dollar today – $1.40. Even worse $1usd = $1cad. This sucks..I don’t foresee traveling outside the US anytime soon. Remember the time when Canadian dollars were like monopoly money? Ahh..the good old days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/business/worldbusiness/20cnd-dollar.html?hp

This was written the evening of September 11, 2001.
I can remember thinking about my day ahead as I walked down 23rd street this morning. I’d go the gym, and then get home in time for open mic night at Ristra. I walked into work at 8:45, the same as always, and sat at my desk [...]

Recently all the headlines have been about Leona Helmsley leaving $12M to her dog, Trouble. They also eagerly point out that she only left $10M to her son and cut two grandchildren out entirely. However what they never focus on is that she left the bulk of her multi-billion dollar estate to charity. So good [...]