All Your Yo-Yo Tricks Are Belong To Us

First of all, did you even know they made $100 yoyos? Second of all, did you know you could even do that with a YoYo?? I mean that's outrageous.

Union Of The Snake (And Other Cultural Oddities From the 80s) Unlocked By MTV

So, MTV has gone all Hulu on us and put up 20k music videos from it's 30 year historical archive to compete with YouTube, etc... The best part about it? Replaying 80s music videos is a peak into one of the more bizarre cultural eras ever.

Duran Duran |MTV Music

Downtown LA Rocks!

I was in Downtown yesterday for my dose of one day / one trial Jury service. Of course I was on a conference call during the lunchtime hour I had free to wander around, but was pleasantly surprised by the several blocks of parks, the beautiful Disney Hall and the stunningly modern and graceful Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. I wish had more time to explore -- I'm thinking of dragging the family back to do a MOCA/Disney/Cathedral/Library afternoon some weekend.

Do As Buffet Does: Skate To Where The Puck Will Be

Warren Buffet has an op-ed in today's New York Times basically exhorting folks to buy US stocks. Probably, that's very good advice while the market is so low.

Equities will almost certainly outperform cash over the next decade, probably by a substantial degree. Those investors who cling now to cash are betting they can efficiently time their move away from it later. In waiting for the comfort of good news, they are ignoring Wayne Gretzky’s advice: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.”

Sudo For Life

From the brilliant XKCD.com:

Programming The Machine: Triathlon Style

It probably started with Lego, but quickly it was Logo, and then it was Basic, and before you know it I was programming in Lisp, C, etc... There's comfort in the predictability of programming: if I write the program correctly, the computer executes the instructions and I end up with a predictable result.

In high school I got into running. Training the body is sort of like programming a computer: if you train effectively, you will have predictable results. Well, all summer long, I have been programming my body for yesterday's Los Angeles Triathlon, and I'm happy to say, the program executed as planned.

The body is an awesome machine.

And while not triathlon related, another machine I really dig is this cool Curta mechanical calculator (designed in the 30-40s, no electricity required to operate!). You basically have to 'program' it to get it to do simple math for you, but it would flawlessly execute arithmetic and beyond.



Photo by Rick Spaulding, Found on the Curta Home Page

Best Unboxing Video Ever

Ok, I'm not sure how the "unboxing" thing got to be so big, but it has now officially jumped the shark. Here, by far, is the best unboxing ever.