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Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

My fitbit review

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

I ordered a fitbit a long time ago, and they finally shipped a few weeks back to their first customers, including me. My capsule thoughts on the pros and cons of this thing Pro: Keeps track of actual times I exercised and walked around, with more info than a “steps this day” thing Uploaded data […]

Proposition 8, and what to do

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Although it’s two months since the November 2008 election that passed Proposition 8 in California, it’s still rather big news, or at least it still makes the news with fair regularity. It’s roiled a couple mailing lists I’m on, still has public protests, sparked complains about the influence of the Mormon church ( and out […]

Amazingly, I got polled for my opinion on

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

local, Santa Clara City Council elections and who I’d be voting for. Other than an initial “Do you work for a radio or television station?” ( which, by the way, who cares considering the questions they then asked ), it was basically “Who do you expect to vote for in this city council seat: Seat […]

I got interviewed on the “radio”!

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

As many of you know, I’m spending stupid amounts of time on one of my gag websites, Penis Reduction Pills I started it last year partly to learn how to use a new web content system ( Joomla ), which we wanted to put up for Loretta’s tv show site, and I also thought that […]

Another product that should exist, and now does!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

A couple of us were talking the other day at lunch over a predicament another friend found himself in, after an evening of drinking and heading home with a new girl he’d met at the bar.  The next morning was, well, somewhat uncomfortable. So, to address this, we thought of a product that should exist, […]

A question…

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

So, I’m riding home last night after Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, where I was speaking and talking with developers, and I had a thought: If, say, a married guy with two kids ( one boy, one girl, both cute as a button ) comes here from Texas and falls in love with another dude, and […]

I’m going to take this as an endorsement

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

As most of you know, I’ve gone into the fake pills business, because I’m not sure this “being a highly paid” engineer thing is panning out. Instead, this being the land of opportunity, I’m going to try to get rich selling sugar pills to gullible folks or folks who are really smart and get the […]

The new store is now open for business…

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Back in January, I opened the finest store on the internet selling penis reduction placebos, at www.PenisReductionPills.com. In the months since then, well, sales have been better than zero, but I’m not a millionaire yet. Since I’m running out of jokes about penis reduction, and still have lots of little bottles in my house, and […]

Advertising the new business venture

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Well, I’ve been in business for a month, and I’m proud to say that sales are strong. Well, maybe not strong, but not anemic. Well, not anemic, but, um, well, there’s room for improvement. Let’s just say that sales can really only go up, because if they went down then we wouldn’t call them sales […]