Audi S5 in the wild

I spotted a brand new S5 in the wild today – didn’t even know they were already selling those. Looks quite nice – what do you think?

Celebrity Sighting

Just like LA has its movie stars we do get our fair share of celebrities here in the valley. Now mind you, these are not your typical celebrities – they are usually much wealthier than your average movie star and much less well known. In fact, most of these folks are so unknown [...]

Hulu Meets Keyser Soze

I have had a beta account on Hulu for a while and have been using it to watch movies and TV-shows off and on. It is by far the best site for long-form video out there. The movie selection is still small but includes a few great flicks like “The Usual Suspects,” an [...]

SIEPR Economic Summit

I was over at the SIEPR Economic Summit on Friday and ran into Craig Newmark (Craigslist, there as panelist) and Meg Whitman (former CEO, eBay, just attending) right after I walked in the door. Also there were: Larry Summers (ex-Harvard president and Clinton-era Secretary of the Treasury), Steven Chu (Nobel prize, Physics, Berkeley), [...]

Democratic Debate – Hillary and Obama face off again

SNL is back after the writer’s strike with this pretty funny skit on the Democratic presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t let me embed this (grrr…) so please follow the link.

Audio Books

I went over to Jackson the other day and got myself the audio book version of Freakonomics. It definitely seems to call for a good occasion as the book comes on 6 CDs and takes about 7 hours to listen to. Maybe for a plane ride…I’ll see.

Gas Prices

I happened upon this picture I took back in 1999 the other day. So almost exactly 9 years ago, a gallon of regular could be had for about 85 cents in Colorado. Admittedly, even back in 1999 that was cheap, which is the reason I took this picture in the first place. [...]

Michael Clayton

Saw Michael Clayton last night – I can highly recommend it. An entertaining and fast moving drama with a satisfying ending, and George Clooney is always good.

Predictably Irrational

…is a new book by Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at MIT. The New York Times has an interesting article on his book and its main thesis, that it is more often than not irrational to keep all our options open. Ariely advocates eliminating some of those options as they often consume an [...]