I made $54 on the stock market today. Or at least I would have had I invested $10,000. I’m taking my homespun investment skills for a test drive at the Virtual Stock Exchange. Although I prefer long term capital gains to short term speculation, I seem to have hit a lucky strike today. I bought [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Latest crazes
Posted in Me, Music, TV/Radio/Movies/Drama on June 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cops
Posted in Camera-Monkey, New York & Jersey on June 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Was walking home after a stroll last week when I notice a police car blocking the street next to mine. As I walk across the block to my apartment, I notice another squad car blocking the other side too. Beyond that are one or two fire trucks, a yellow “POLICE: DO NOT CROSS” line, a [...]
The Google Car is Coming to Town
Posted in Computing, New York & Jersey on June 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Implementing Google Street View may not tax the resources of Google as much as we may think. After the initial wow had died down, I sat down to think how they could pull this off with no direct revenue coming in from it. By looking at adjacent photos, orientation and speed of traffic and pedestrians [...]
Everything’s like, connected dude
Posted in Computing, Science in General on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Random pic from my work neighborhood. I’m sure you recognize the street name…
The Internet is a fascinating place for random exploration, if you happen to be that sort of person. Just the other day I arrived at A Day Without Google at Alt Search Engines through Drac’s blog, through which I discovered the FactBites [...]
Washington, D.C
Posted in Camera-Monkey, Me on June 11, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Pics from the D.C. trip are back. Of course, I’m covering territory already covered by SpectralCentroid.
Something I always wanted to do — visit an aerospace museum. Too bad I can’t post the one in front of the Apollo capsule — it’s a group pic.
But I can post this one. I’m only a semi-anonymous blogger, but [...]
