What sacrifices would you need to make to avoid all Chinese products? What kinds of things do you buy that you’d have to find substitutes for? How many times do you encounter ‘Made in China’ in a day? Note I’m not talking about avoiding Chinese culture (so beef with snow peas, checkers, and fire drills [...]

Wow. The meltdown of Bear Stearns is unbelievable and scary. Five days ago their stock was trading at 62.30. One month ago it was trading at 80. Five months ago it was trading at 127. Today it’s trading at: What’s disturbing is that Bear Stears has been around for 85 years and employs 15,000 people, [...]

Spotted this in a Yahoo! ad. Sooooo much hair. It’s like a lion’s mane! How many square feet is that?

Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, admitted to having a Facebook account, saying it’s “important for executives to experience all of this”. I like Bob Iger — I think he “gets it” when it comes to understanding how to move DIS forward — but he has yet to understand the Facebook experience. Talk [...]

How high will it go? It’s times like these I’m thankful both Sherri and I only live 6 miles from work.

Blood pressure: 110/60

As far as I know, I’m not allergic to anything. But let me ask if this sounds like an allergic reaction. Sometimes, when I eat some of those almonds that are whitish-brown, my throat gets really itchy. Not just my throat, but inside my ears as well. It drives me crazy for 5 or 10 [...]

Back from vacation in Florida and the Bahamas! We brought back memories, Vigo yellow rice, photos, peeling skin, influenza, photos, and ok-ish tans. I will decide which of these to share with you shortly.