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By Pete, November 25, 2009 11:52 am

Thanksgiving isn’t the same without some football… Here’s a little something to get you psyched up…

[Nike Pro Combat: Texas]

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By Pete, August 28, 2009 11:12 am

I’ve been on a tennis/mahjong binge lately. So that’s probably why the last post I did was on Alinea from my July 4th trip to Chicago and my series of posts on my Spain trip in May is still unfinished. I have decided to break my silence on my blog with the discovery of Gizmodo’s coverage of food tech this week when I’m catching up with my google reader.

Nick Kokonas, co-founder of Alinea, has been contributing to a new series of posts on Gizmodo (a tech blog) about technology and food called “taste test” (other notable contributors include Wylie Dufresne and Alton Brown). If you want to know about cutting edge technology in today’s kitchen, this is a pretty good series to catch up on. Meanwhile, check out this AMAZING video of Alinea…

Alinea/Crucial Detail – Tokyo Taste Intro from 2061wc on Vimeo.

If you want more, Chef Achatz is doing a live stream from the Alinea kitchen throughout the next few days, check out the link here.

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By Pete, July 8, 2008 9:11 pm

This is pretty interesting set of ideas from Boone Pickens, THE MAN in the oil industry.

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By Pete, May 31, 2008 4:04 pm

On the top of the list: Texas Hill Country. =)

New York Times: Top 31 Places to Go this Summer

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By Pete, May 16, 2008 10:08 am

For once, something good comes from Baron Davis. =)

I don’t know about joining the no blinking competition, but I can go all day staring at Jessica… =P

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By Pete, May 8, 2008 7:59 pm

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

It started with a lot of facebook status updates… “X is twittering: *insert action here*” Then I found out what it was last week and didn’t think much of it. I mean… why would people need a site just for status updates?

A week later, I’m on board. I mean, yeah it’s a *little* too much. Especially if you’re not really friends with someone to be knowing what they do all the time. Be at the same time, you’re connected to people like never before. This is not “need to know” information, but just good information to have to see a glimpse of someone else’s life.

I’ve added my Twitter feed on the top left on the sidebar (for those of you without Twitter/Facebook). If you have a mobile device, I’d definitely check it out.

*On a totally separate note (and shameless plug), if you have a BlackBerry with BIS, contact me so we can exchange pins for the BB messenger (which IMO, is one of the best apps for the BB).

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By Pete, April 25, 2008 11:46 pm

The chart above marks the performance of a company whose CEO made $132mil last year on pay and stock sale. The company? None other than Countrywide Financial.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

A securities filing shows Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo earned some $10.8 million in total compensation and cashed out $121.5 million in stock options last year.

The compensation disclosed in the Securities and Exchange Commission filing released Thursday represents an 80 percent cut from the 70-year-old’s total pay in 2006 of about $51 million.

The Calabasas-based company reported a yearly loss in 2007 of $704 million amid the nationwide mortgage market meltdown.

Man, that’s a pretty sweet gig. Lose $51mil for the people you’re supposed to be working for, and make $130mil. I’ll take a job like that, where do I sign up??

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By Pete, April 21, 2008 11:27 pm

Excerpt from a MySA.com article (that Matt found, emphasis added by me):

Suns center Shaquille O’Neal won’t be adjusting his style of play in hopes of avoiding the early foul trouble that limited him to 30 minutes and 20 seconds in Saturday’s double-overtime Game 1 of the Spurs-Suns Western Conference first-round series.

“I ain’t changing nothing,” O’Neal said Sunday morning. “I’ve got 700 days left (on his contract), and I ain’t changing a (expletive) thing. Screw that. I got four (rings) doing it my way, and I’m going to continue doing it my way.”

O’Neal was still angry Sunday that he had been called for three offensive fouls on what he said were “flops” by Spurs players. He praised the physical inside play of Spurs power forward Tim Duncan, then promised he would not resort to flopping in hopes of drawing fouls on the Spurs’ star.

“He got a lot of points,” O’Neal said, “but I was on the bench a lot yesterday. But he’s going to do the same thing: Jump hook, fade, jump hook. He has all the moves on both blocks, but I’ve seen them before. And I’ll be there. But I’m going to play him like a man, though. Not falling like I just got (expletive) shot. None of that bull. That’s how you’re supposed to play.

“That (flopping) is some bull. Then you all write like these (expletive) guys can play. Give me a (expletive) break.”

You’ve got to admit, the level of trash talking is pretty entertaining. Considering the major American sports, football is the closest thing (yet it still pales in comparison) to the NBA as far as playoffs lines are concerned. Game 2 (of the Spurs-Suns series) will be good tomorrow. I’m, however, going to refrain from watching the Mavs game due to a personal superstition.

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By Pete, April 8, 2008 9:37 am

I really thought that I’d probably be reading a good majority of “the most popular” blogs out there, but apparently not, at least according to Time.com. Some of the ones that I’ve never heard of sound pretty cool though.

[Time.com's First Annual Blog Index]

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By Pete, April 7, 2008 10:50 pm

Sometimes, I wonder how good I am at reading charts. I found Inspectd via the Freakonomics blog. Here is Freakonomic’s intro of it:

At its heart, Inspectd is a simple game: it shows you a chart of historical data on a random stock, asks you to bet on whether the stock’s price will rise or fall, and then immediately tells you if you won or lost — with another performance chart showing you why.

And maybe that instant gratification is what makes this game so addictive.

What surprised us most was how difficult it can be to go broke — at least on Inspectd’s virtual Wall Street. If that ever does happen, it sure will be fun to see how the business press explains it.