Million dollars

We sometimes go to Santa Monica on Weekends and end up walking up the 3rd St. Promenade. There I usually go to the Apple store and check out the excitement, talk to a salesman and watch the presentations. I feel like I should know what my company is up to at all times, but it is also a great place to go and I would even if I wasn't invested. Funny thing is that I haven't bought the expensive Apple equipment yet, don't feel a need to replace this computer, delete all the crap of it has to do for now. I bet that I could tune this baby to be fast again, someday I must as well.

As I was walking around I noticed that many people had very large bills in their hands, I figured that they must be fake, but the did look cool. Sure enough someone gives me one, together with some questions about which commandments I have broken. Have I ever lied, well I must have at some point in my life, probably many times, stolen, ..... you get the picture. I am going to hell according to my answers he says, I didn't bother talking to him about redemption or Jesus, since it is the 10 commandments that I would be judged by. I would have filmed the guy had I had a camera with me. So I looked up the president on that bill and found a very funny article, seems like someone used a 200 dollar bill with George Bush on it to buy a sundae at Dairy Queen and other such stories. I wonder on which YouTube channel or TV channel I will appear, of course I didn't sign a release, so geez, maybe I can make that money real. I followed the guy to his next sinner and this guy came up much cleaner then I, or so he claimed. Maybe that is why he was homeless on the street? Anyhow I offered to give all the stuff in my trunk to a good cause, but Warren didn't want to hear of it, seems he is happier entrapping people with fake bills that look very much like money. But what the heck it was all in good fun or is it? The back of the bill points to hopechapel.org and livingwaters.com salvation takes work. Someone tried to use the bill in a store.... later I heard they were being investigated for printing money.

turtle

This is got to be looked into, if I am going to have service this slow, I want my monthly fee reduced to $12 from the current 35, it is ridiculous.

Pain

I took it easy today, Monday was a very long day. Didn't notice that my internet really sucks until the afternoon when I tried to make a Gizmo phone call, lousy quality tipped me off.




Perhaps it is time to move to ATT, they keep talking about low intro teaser rates, might try them.

Energy

So I wake up at 4 something this morning and decide to turn on the computer in the office. For what, to blog, see the post below, starting to think that this is my FaceBook, I will start to time how long it is taking me and how much it takes away from the productive time I am trying to bill. Funny thing is right now I have 2 things I need to get done to get paid and also want to setup the UUASC library, finally, it is time I get this all done, but what am I doing Blogging? crazy isn't it?

So now that we have established that I tend to be a starving artist, here is the reason I came this morning, had a good start, then went to the beach for an hour, I figure that I got to start taking care of myself, my family seems to be growing as well, mostly horizontally.

My usual call from Jack Chen, well I called first from the beach I guess took me off track, I am easily distracted when the phone rings. Maybe I should try DND, it does have that button.

Priorities today: Hotel WakeUp system, Ernie's user, Tires, collect outstanding accounts, pay for tires... and now I am going to Peter's office, grrrr.... time is scarce for me these days.

Windows Live, Linux Kernel

What a strange thing to dream, Microsoft uses the Linux kernel and the OS is more of way to run internet widgets then an operating system. This way Microsoft no longer pays for Windows development, and makes money off open source. They perceive Google as the threat these days. So the Windows team is sent home, the shareholders are happy for the savings, they buy Linux, which is all but a trade mark right now, of course they fund the development and give pay for ad free web powered apps or free ad supported ones, but maybe that will just be the competition, Google. After all MS isn't ad supported right now, so why should it be in the future.

It is funny all that the new site is missing is having the logo change every special day, like Google's still does for those of you who haven't switched to iGoogle. I don't get why the special Google Logo changes, Google doodles isn't used on iGoogle.

Yea right, maybe Canonical will buy them somday, or they base their distro on Ubuntu like Linspire did, does MS get it? Or are they doomed to extinction?

Speaking of doodle, in reading the WikiPedia definition of it I got an image of making a movie of Alberto doodling, would be a rather neat thing to make this half real life half cartoon movie, maybe post it on YouTube to see if we can get some traction before going into real production and releasing. I keep thinking that some lucky company will hire this great cartoonist, like when Mad Magazine found Sergio Aragonés.

I keep getting the FaceBook invites, hear about them in the news and given that it seems like the 15 billion valuation that some are tossing around this sounds like a power house. I even heard an interview on the GoDaddy podcast about them. Amazing how someone created a free version to help Harvard students find things on campus and connect and they pretty much shutdown like so many student run things do. So in seeing my iGoogle HowTo of the day widget how to quit facebook, wow maybe I shouldn't ever get into this, or is the truth I need to start logging how much time I spend on this blog? Maybe this is my addiction that I could kick if only I kept track of how much time I spent doing this and then considered the alternative uses for this time?

Halo 3 day, Library WiFi

So it seems like today is the long awaited day that Halo 3 is released, not that I was waiting for it, thank goodness, but this video is really funny.

I went to the library this morning and overheard that now there is free WiFi there, about time. This is great!

Flat day in the stock market, darn I got tripped out of my GOL with the stop loss I had yesterday, wouldn't you know it, stock goes up 6% today. AAPL is also finally doing gret for me, those extra shares are now working for me.

NYTimes free, couchsurfing, CentOS

This morning, I get a Skype from LJ telling me that the market is good for a change to balance out the Skypes that I had done to him back when the market was down. So he mentions that the NYtimes is now free, I go on the site and find out about CouchSurfing, a pretty neat site about how to get around the world by exchanging your couch for someone else's, but it goes way beyond just housing.

CentOS keeps driving me nuts, things that are easy on Ubuntu aren't there. I am sure it is my inexperience with it.