As I learned today:
Alma Mater means Nourishing Mother
Then, as my co-worker said after reading the description:
You sucked on the teet of UDub
*sigh*
Vacation to SFO: Day 3
Well, I was trying to go three for three in the days to get out my writing about our vacation, but the weekend happened and I got a little lazy. But, here’s the recap from our last day.
As I mentioned in my log of our first day, today was really only one thing, Alcatraz. It really worked out that way since our flight was that night and our tour ferry was at 12:15pm. So, we basically planned to spend the whole cday at the wharf and on Alcatraz. This was fine with me since the weather was the best of any of the days that we were going to be there, so why not spend it on the water? Continue reading “Vacation to SFO: Day 3”
Vacation to SFO: Day 2
Waking up on Saturday morning in San Francisco, we had hoped that the weather would have turned for the better, even if the weatherman says otherwise. Opening the blinds to look outside gave us a false hope, there was sun out! As we scurried to make it out before it vanished, we just so happened to make it out in time for a pretty impressive five minute downpour. Yea, it was sweet. So, there we are, fresh off of our first bus and making our way to the next when it just pours out of nowhere. Having been soaked in the first 10 seconds of it, I get out my umbrella to fend off any other wetness that is falling from the sky. Then, we reach our bus stop and wait under an overhang with what had to be three dozen Asians and me, the lone white guy. Continue reading “Vacation to SFO: Day 2”
Vacation to SFO: Day 1
Well, Jamie and I are back from our weekend vacation to San Francisco. You may not have known that we left in the first place, but we did! It’s the first vacation that I’ve really taken since I was hired at Avanade, but it was nice to get away from work, if it only meant taking one day off. The trip was not exactly what I expected, but I really enjoyed it, despite our hotel selection, immature middle/high school students, and rain the first two days. Continue reading “Vacation to SFO: Day 1”
Political Compass Part Two
| You are a Social Moderate (50% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (61% permissive) You are best described as a:
Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid |
First Look: Google Finance
Tonight I was introduced to Google Finance by Aaron. At a first glance it’s very “Google”. Not a lot of data, a simple design, and information that they’ve harvested from the Internet. But, if you take a closer look at a stock chart, you will be blown away. Or, well, at least I was.
The ticker pages are very simple and easy to read and contains points on the chart that correspond to news stories from Google News. How cool is that? Now you have a pinpoint on when news breaks and how stocks react. This is great. No longer do you have to do this yourself. Or, well, if you did ever do that, now you don’t have to. Also, drag the top bar around and you can watch the chart and the new pins change in real time. Really neat stuff here.
Now, this does come at a cost. Google Finance only provides very basic data about each of the stocks. But, it provides the majority of data that you’d want: ticker, real time ECN, balance sheet, income statement, summary, competitors, their segment, and so on… There is not a ton of extra information listed, like you might find on Yahoo! Finance. But, the neat news visualization is worth the look.
One thing that they could to to fix it up is to use the ticker in the url everywhere. None of this number business in some places and the ticker in others. Take a note from Yahoo and almost any other site that deals with quotes. But besides that, I’m really impressed so far. Let’s see if it can replace my Yahoo Finance! page.
Update 3/20 @ 11:30p: Google Finance is now offline…
Update 3/21 @ 12:03p: It’s back online
Camera Cops
Today in the PI there’s an article about Seattle thinking about installing cameras at intersections to detect cars that run red lights. What’s funny, to me at least, is that in Minnesota they’ve had these cameras up for a little bit, but the ACLU (and some angry drivers) got involved and claimed that drivers were not given due process. That, and you can’t tell who is driving, so ticketing the owner, isn’t really the best approach. So, a judge temporarily shut them down. In my opinion, if you’re caught running a red light, you’re caught. Deal with it. Now, if we all had RFID implanted in us they’d be able to tell who it is driving. But, implanting RFID and letting the government have access to that is an entirely different can of worms.