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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
