Entries from March 2008

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Three Beverage Weekend in Seattle

Saturday was the Tea Meetup at Hiroki. It was mostly a desert place, but had a few tea offerings.

After leaving the Tea Meetup, it was off to meet the Eastside Pub Crawlers. We went to Red Hook. We all had low expectations for the beers. I found none of the sampler [...]

Monday, March 31st, 2008

My Next Move?

On January 2nd an email was sent out to the employees of our company.  It was one of those this is going to be a great year emails that many companies send out.   I read the details of the email closely.  The goals and time lines were beyond ambitious.  They were ludicrous.
It was on that [...]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Tampa Bay Satire 1997-1998

Before CriticalMAS existed I had a personal web site hosted with a local ISP in the Tampa Bay area. The site had a very popular local radio guide called What’s the Frequency Tampa?. It listed radio programming schedules much like television schedules are displayed. I built it by writing a program with [...]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Ybor City Scrapbook (1994-1998)

This page was first assembled in 1999.
From March 1994 to August 1998, I lived in the Tampa Bay area. This is my collection of Ybor City overviews and memorabilia.

Friday, March 28th, 2008

My Photo From October 2000

Here is a photo I found of myself taken on October 1st 2000 while home shopping.  I used to wear over-sized baggy clothes, but damn my hair looked good.

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Friday, March 28th, 2008

100 Million or 100 Billion?

Does the Associated Press have editors?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Coffee Roasting at 43 Degrees

Last month I wrote Cold Weather Coffee Roasting for INeedCoffee. As soon as that article was released everything changed. My Behmor 1600 roaster died and no tricks have brought it back to life. And all my heat trapping tricks have stopped working for the I-Roast 2. I think there is a [...]

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Devil Take the Hindmost

After reading this book, I’m convinced that humans are programmed to not learn from history.

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor covers financial speculation from Tulip Mania through the LTCM crisis of 1998.  The book was published prior to the dot-com crash.  Even though I found the early chapters [...]

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The Financial Wisdom of Seattle Billy

Last fall I meet a good hearted nice fellow named Billy. Actually that is not his real name. I’m protecting his real name. Billy is a college graduate working a white-collar job. Billy is also a financial idiot and to me that is what makes him interesting.
Billy bought a condo that [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2008

My Food Stamp Story

The Drudge Report just linked to a story in my old hometown newspaper stating that 1 in 10 Ohioans now receive food stamps. This reminded me of my one and only food stamp story.
While in college I was a cashier at a grocery store in a very nice suburb. Almost none of [...]