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Continue reading →: Facebook to see $2B
Facebook’s on the Block. _Now this is an amazing statistic. I just wish we had invested. Facebook started two years ago with sophomores at Harvard, today, they are #7 in MediaMetrix, do 5.5 billion page views and are ahead of Amazon.com, Ask.com and Disney)._ bq. Facebook, the Web site where…
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Continue reading →: Salt Spring
!http://www.saltspringguide.com/images/ssimap.gif! Welcome to Salt Spring Island. _We are taking a trip up north. Went to Salt Spring decades ago._ Getting to Salt Spring Island is EASY! There are 3 ferry routes using BC Ferries and a multitude of other ferry lines running from Vancouver, Seattle, & Victoria. Also, the float…
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Continue reading →: 27″ Monitors!
4 new Dell monitors – BeHardware. _Hat tip to Google Desktop on this one._ Hey, Dell has announced a bunch of amazing monitors. There is a 27″ (!!!) monitor and a 30″ Right now I got Connie a 24″ monitor and I have to say it is a terrific experience…
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Continue reading →: Other MP3 Alternatives
“Cnet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Music/2001-6450_7-0.html? has gone through a list of alternatives. None as easy as the iPod, but they can all at least play WMA format which is need for “KCLS”:http://kcls.org content: * “Samsung Yepp YP-Z5”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Samsung_Yepp_YP_Z5_4GB_silver/4505-6490_7-31644076-2.html?tag=nav. Like the Nano, but twice (!!!) as thick. * “Creative Zen Vision:M”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Creative_Zen_Vision_M_30GB_black/4505-6490_7-31632696-2.html?tag=nav. This is a 30GB hard…
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Continue reading →: SanDisk Sansa c100 and c200
DailyTech – SanDisk announces several new flash-based MP3 players. I love our iPods, but King County only does WMA format files for audio books. Given that a book costs about $30 even from Audible, just five books would payback. Look at the options, assuming they aren’t horrible, there is the…
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Continue reading →: Eastside Express
Eric runs this (Marat used to) and they are reliable. The Russian emigrants seem to dominate this, like my cousins do restaurants for instance. In any case, they don’t have the huge humeersines, but basic Lincoln Town Cars. Very reliable though and terrific folks.
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Continue reading →: $20 Bill
20 dollar bill new – front & back.jpg (JPEG Image, 669×585 pixels). Alex needs for his project. $20 is all his grandmother had in her pocket when she came to the US.
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Continue reading →: Kids loved it
This is a kids wonder. They really liked the computers and the roller coaster simulation. The DNA things was terrific too where you actually extract DNA. Also they have RFID cards, so you can record what you are doing. The other part that they loved were the various experiments. Actually…
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Continue reading →: Interesting, but really not worth the price
We went through the Science Fiction Museum and it was OK. As P.M. says, it takes just an hour to through there and it really isn’t super worth it. Nice to see some of the trivia, but seems like they should just throw it in as part of the EMP…





