Archive for July, 2007
Starbucks is now selling the Grateful Dead.
Nothing much to say other than when I saw that Starbucks is selling a Greatful Dead album I was surprised as I never really thought of Dead Heads going to Starbucks often or being their key clientel. However, after talking with a Barista it sounds like alot of Dead Heads have given up the life [...]
My name googles well.
I wrote a post on May 9th titled "Your Nothing Unless Your Name Googles Well." It was a quote from an article written in the WSJ and it helped me get more motivated to keeping this site updated.
Not that this site is anything special but I did receive an email from an old friend [...]
Again!?…Why is Apple so affected by rumors?
Again today Apples stock took a huge hit (7%!) when a rumor that turned out not to be true hit the inter-tubes. This time TheStreet.com reported that Apple was cutting back on their production of iPhones, thus causing people to panic and sell their stock.
This is remeniscent of the time that engadget reported a rumor [...]
Sabermetrics for business? Investing?
I have been a big fan of Sabermetrics for the past few years after reading moneyball. Taking traditional stats turning them upside down and looking for new more useful stats in the game of baseball…that’s my rough explanation of what Sabermetrics is.
I just picked up the Football Prospectus 2007, which does the same thing for [...]
Why is Starbuck’s changing to 2% milk?
Let me start by saying that I love Starbucks. I love their coffee, I love their business, and I wouldn’t mind taking over for Jim Donald one of these days. That is one reason the news that Starbucks is changing to 2% milk is so frustrating. I typically order non-fat myself, and more often than [...]
The Naked Truth…
Went to a local meet up for people in the tech industry last night. It was a fun event, with lots of people, conversation, bbq, and a few drinks. Thanks for Redfin and everyone else who put this on…also if you were the person who Michael Arrington gave an Ooma too, he said that if [...]
Social Network Overload?
I was anti social network for a very long time. I finally gave into Facebook a few months ago after realizing they have their stuff together and it looks like they’re going to be around for a long time. They seem to have a plan for connecting people and information and not just throwing up [...]
