Wet Ramblings of the Dive Boy

Re: [Womba Squad] happy new year

2009-01-05T10:00:00.001-08:00

Got back to the ol' USA on Saturday afternoon, but didn't get back home until Sunday lunchtime. The plane from Chicago to SFO was overbooked so we volunteered to spend the night in Chicago (at United Airlines expense). Got a free flight out of it for later in the year and they payed for the hotel. We were too knackered to do any sightseeing, so we just chilled in the hotel, had a shower, grabbed some food.

Back to work and school today.

Thanksgiving...giving thanks

2008-11-26T00:27:00.001-08:00

This year I'm giving thanks that I still have a job.

At the same time, I'm also looking forward to the future - where I hope I don't have to work until 3am in a morning and my stock options are above water!

w00t!!

2008-11-04T20:22:00.001-08:00

Sat on the light-rail, travelling home, listening to CNN on my SprintTV. John McCain just came on stage to give his concession speech.

Great day! Sorry if you're a republican but let's face it, you brought it on yourselves.

Nose Phones

2008-10-28T09:41:00.001-07:00

Generally when using public transit I like to put my earphones in and listen to sweet music, so I don't have to listen to the obnoxious fat guy sat in front of me, his phone calls and his tunes.

Right now, I'm wishing someone would invent 'nosephones' so I wouldn't have to smell today's obnoxious fat guy.

Weekend train ride in Sunol

2008-10-20T23:59:00.001-07:00

We went to a friends birthday party at the weekend. We got to ride the 'Niles Canyon Railway' from Sunol to Niles and back.

Our party got exclusive use of the Caboose car on the vintage train.

Sunol turned out to be a picturesque little town and the railway runs along a creek, so the view during the journey is also great.

We arrived a little early and that gave us chance to get a latte/Americano from the 'Jazz Cafe' across from the station. We don't really like Jazz, but the café was quaint!

I never agreed to this crap ...

2008-10-19T17:22:00.001-07:00

Says Lucky as he is forced to wear a Halloween costume.

Welcome to Eighty-Eighytnine: Your guide to 80s fashion, music, movies, games

2008-10-12T15:05:00.001-07:00

Sweet website.

http://www.eightyeightynine.com/

After all, there’s nothing better than the 80s! Before all this horrible Internet crap, when only people with a modem could download p0rn :-P

Look what I woke up next to this morning ...

2008-10-12T15:01:00.000-07:00

Hope I didn't shag it!

We had a sleep over at the Monterey Bay Aquarium with Ben's scout troop.

Beer Guard Dog

2008-10-09T23:53:00.000-07:00

Lucky came into work with me on Thursday night. Here he is, guarding our beer fridge.

Pulling an all nighter

2008-10-09T00:06:00.000-07:00

If I'm going to work all night, I'm going to need some 'inspiration'...

Do you 'drunk-email'?

2008-10-08T10:31:00.001-07:00

Check-out Google 'Mail Goggles' ! ;)

Working lunch

2008-10-07T12:44:00.001-07:00

Stock market report ...

2008-10-06T11:59:00.001-07:00

Charbono!

2008-10-02T21:43:00.001-07:00

Yeh, the case of Summer's Charbono has arrived ... Yum!

Increasing FDIC insurance ... why!?

2008-10-01T17:25:00.000-07:00

$100k FDIC insurance is where we're at. They want to increase that to $250k, which is great. But given that the US population doesn't actually have any savings, what's it going to actually help with?

According to several surveys, Americans save only about $400/year, while the average american has a credit card balance of $16000

http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/credit-card-industry-facts-personal-debt-statistics-1276.php

http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/american-savings-americans-save-an-average-of-392-per-year-total-consumer-debt-is-over-25-trillion-the-dark-knight-of-debt/

Hmmm, beer

2008-09-30T18:03:00.001-07:00

Sierra Navada Stout.

waM-Who?

2008-09-25T20:22:00.000-07:00

My son was on a school field trip today to learn about banks. They went to Washington Mutual (WaMu).

I hope he didn't listen to anything they said...

WaMu operations sold to J.P. Morgan after regulators seize control of Seattle bank

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/mobile/stories/2008/09/22/daily49.html

Bike Ride, Los Gatos

2008-09-21T22:37:00.000-07:00

Nice day chillin' today. Me and Ben. Went to Target and bought "Spore" for the DS, then had a bike ride along Los Gatos Creek Trail down to Vasona Park in Los Gatos. Hung out in the park eating burgers and ice cream until 4pm, then went home. Sweet!

I'm confused ...

2008-09-20T23:09:00.000-07:00

When republicans say 'hey wall street, here's 700 billion dollars of tax payers money to baie you out of your own fuck-up' are we still supposed to believe them when they say they're opposed to Big Government?

I wonder how may millions the CEOs of these nationalized financial institutions are going to give back as penalty for doing such a shitty job the last 5 years.

Of course, now that America's technically a communist country, maybe we can adopt some other commi practices and throw these capitalist scum bag CEOs into a detention camp in Syberia ... or Alaska maybe. Maybe comrad Palin can make that happen. Palingrad ... got a ring to it don't you think? So much more american than Alaska.

Genius Sidebar

2008-09-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

It might as well say ...

The Genius sidebar will cost you money.

The Genius sidebar will spy on you.

Genius sidebar: Because you can't be trusted to make a decision.

Life with Windows Mobile Day 1

2008-09-13T11:10:00.000-07:00

Well, I did something I thought I never would: I switched from Palm OS to Windows Mobile. I traded my Treo 680 for a Treo 800W.

First couple of days have gone _fairly_ well so far.

At the moment I'm enjoying the improved support of media - I've been streaming from BBC to watch Look North in Windows Media format.

I've also been enjoying streaming stereo over bluetooth to my Sony CMX-HX7BT music system in the family room.

So far I've only played with the GPS, but the integration with Google Maps is great. That would have been a mighty useful feature to have when we were lost on the way to Yosemite.

No really used the WiFi yet as the data service from Sprint seems fast enough, but the phone had no trouble connecting to my network at home and automagically knew which flavor of WPA to select.

I want a Wiz ...

2008-09-02T11:58:00.001-07:00

http://gp2x-emulation.dcemu.co.uk/gph-the-wiz-official-announcement-141960.html

w00t -- I R a Pr0n King!!

2008-09-02T09:49:00.001-07:00

Support your local Guatemalan pig farmer

2008-09-02T09:32:00.000-07:00

MicroPlace (https://www.microplace.com/)

I think it's a great idea, though no doubt in 2years time we'll find out it's a horribly flawed concept.

What's amazing is the contrast between what you can do with a few hundred dollars investing at microplace compared with living in silicon valley.

At the weekend I made a $300 investment in my MicroPlace account, which will help two people set-up businesses (in some 3rd world country). It will also provide me a 2% return(*). Then I went to Costco and spent $500 on utter crap that I didn't really need.

I suppose I should be grateful and stop complaining about the price of Latte.

(*) Investments and returns are not guaranteed, you may not get your money back, it may even get eaten by the piglets.

War, War, Bloody War ...

2008-08-26T18:35:00.000-07:00

On Pandora :-P