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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:27:41 -0500

Steel Topped off at Jackson Ave

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:58:35 -0500

Completion of steel!

Notes about the fees at Eton

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:06:51 -0500

Just to make sure prospective parents have it all straight. Current Fees In addition to these charges, boys’ school accounts may include various other items which may total from £50 to £500 per half, besides any tradesmen’s bills for items bought in local shops. The house extras account will include the house subscription which is set by each house master at his discretion, intended to provide various items for his boys’ benefit over the years – perhaps a new billiards table, or a TV rental, or staging of a house play. Tipping of house domestic staff is organised centrally in each house every half, and is of course an expression of appreciation for all that the domestic staff do for the boys. It is also the policy, expressed in the prospectus, for boys to be supplied with a bible at Eton; this will appear as a charge on the school bill after a boy’s first half. There will also be a one-off ‘linen pool’ charge for duvet covers, etc.

Masala zone

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:35:00 -0500

Dining in Covent Garden.

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The famous Eton school

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:18:58 -0500

Pretty cool old place actually.

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12:34:56 on 7/8/09

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:11:58 -0500

Special moments abound this decade

McNamara's lifetime war

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:41:11 -0500

Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com “We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo — men, women and children,” Mr. McNamara recalled; some 900,000 Japanese civilians died in all. “LeMay said, ‘If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.’ And I think he’s right. He — and I’d say I — were behaving as war criminals.” “What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” he asked. He found the question impossible to answer.

All the places where Peek is sold

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:48:05 -0500

Stores A super cool map

10 minutes of media

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:29:51 -0500

On the subway, on my Peek, I read a few things in the AM: The Daily Beast, NY Times headlines, Dealbook, Ent's NPR headlines, and Accuweather. Email media.

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Andreessen's venture focus

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:43:13 -0500

From the NYT Dealbook: Instead, they will focus on start-ups that do networking and storage, consumer Internet services and cloud computing. They are also excited about consumer electronics. “Silicon Valley companies are becoming a major force in consumer electronics again. It’s sort of back to the future,” Mr. Andreessen said, pointing to the success of the Flip video camera, whose maker, Pure Digital, was sold to Cisco in May. Mr. Andreessen and Mr. Horowitz have already been making angel investments together for four years. They have put $4 million into 45 companies, including Twitter; Qik, a service that publishes live video from mobile phones; and Aliph, which makes the Jawbone Bluetooth headset. Through that investing, they have a method to figure out whether to bet on a new idea. Mr. Andreessen focuses on a new technology and the potential market, while Mr. Horowitz analyzes whether an entrepreneur is capable of executing, they said. “In the venture capital business, 15 companies a year still deliver 97 percent of returns,” Mr. Horowitz said. “The key to success is still finding those 15.” CE, baby!

I got beef with beef

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:37:02 -0500

BBQs are great and all but I am getting a little over the whole beef thing. I eat very very few steaks or burgers in restaurants and never at home, so industrial beef only only passes these lips in summer. Not sure I want to keep on stacking 'em double high all summer. Eggplant for me!

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How my Peek passes 5 min at a time

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:29:22 -0500

When I walk my dog (2x daily), I only take leash, keys and Peek (for company). What do I do? I browse Facebook status updates from friends using PeekSocial, explore weather for later with Accuweathers 2x per day weather mail, and browse the NPR headlines courtesy of Ent@retroforth.org. Then I update status using ping.fm and maybe read/write some emails. Taking care of business!

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New LIC park is unbelievable

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:04:38 -0500

This new waterfront park at LIC's East River coastline is absolutely unbelievable.

There are now 'enough' parks in LIC, though there appear to be a whole bunch more in the works.

Go 11101.

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Tech products of the 6am subways

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:07:34 -0500

If all you do is get to work around 10am, ride Metro North, and shuffle on Madison Ave, you are missing some people.

On my normal routes, I now see as many Kindles as I saw iPods in 2002-2003. Same for iPhone and Blackberry. I see 3-4 per train car. This means a lot -- I'm getting on when it's full load coming out of Queens. Lots of secretaries and working class adults -- yuppies or postcollege brats. I'm sure those Upper West or Williamsburg lines are nuts.

But on the 7 at 6am, it's 75% young males going solo -- probably to some really blue collar gig like busboy, stockroom clerk, deli hand.

No kindles. No smartphones. They have iPods now -- a few alternate brands, but definitely iPods. One PSP. Not even a lot of newspapers (the free dalies don't start this early).

I also didn't see a single one take out a cell phone at this hour. Maybe it's just early or they aren't exactly playing games on their slider hybrids.

Also, there is a homeless person sleeping on the car.

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Peek in ID Magazine

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:33:47 -0500

Beautiful.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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