I love SOMA

I was walking around running errands around lunchtime today and what I noticed was how significant SOMA is to my life.

  1. I earned my first paycheck doing Perl programming for the first e-commerce websites in 1998. We would get lunch every day at AK Subs at 7th and Harrison.
  2. I opened my first bank account at the Wells Fargo on 4th & Brannan, right here in SOMA.
  3. I had my first drink at a bar (Jaeger shots with the CEO) at the Hotel Utah at a TheMan.com company party during my internship in 2000. Dave Koz played sax at the party. LOL Web 1.0 Extravagance FTW!

I guess in some way SOMA has been 'the City' to me. But what do I know? I'm a bridge-and-tunnel guy from Fremont and/or Mountain View. ;-) But looking forward to getting to know the real SF.

Posterous meetup in SOMA sometime? How about it?

Macbook Pro initial reactions

Very solidly constructed, no bend or give. Trackpad changes are unnoticeable. But it looks cool! Hate black keys on silver, but I do like the new chiclet keyboard. The top lid is very very thin. Glossy screen is no big deal, mostly unnoticable. I dislike displayport for the sheer fact that I have to pay $100 extra dual link dvi cable. Also who needs another connector?

My old MacBook Pro had crazy fan issues and it takes 5 days to repair. They said I have to drop it off in Palo Alto for warranty repairs this week. And i needed a printer ($100 rebate), plus I can't live without a machine for 5 days. I'm going to NYC next week, so it's a bit of a perfect storm to pick up this new beautiful machine on the first day.

I do love a new computer. It's a red letter day.

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A new kind of 401k for depressed economic times

Unverified, but intriguing. ;-) Hat tip to my friend Luke of Startuply

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If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you  would have $49.00 left.  

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. 

  With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. 

  But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of  the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you  would have $214.00 cash.

  Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily  and recycle. 

It's called the 401-Keg 

  A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year. 

  Another study found Americans drink, on the average 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. 

  Makes You Proud To Be an American