Affordable Global Real Estate according to BusinessWeek
I saw an article from BusinessWeek yesterday about “affordable global real estate” and I thought I’d share the link and my observations here.
In The Worlds Most Affordable Housing Markets, writer Maya Roney lays out where the smart money chooses to live based on an index of home prices, cost of goods and services, local stability [...]
Video: The last Lecture from a Dieing Professor
I was visiting a blog site of someone I admire earlier today and was reminded of this video again. I watched this video when it first came out, transfixed by someone who is dieing of pancreatic cancer give one of the most powerful and moving speeches of my life. He gave the speech for his [...]
The best ever….
Yes, this is the best time ever to excel.
This is the most depressing and hopeless state that the United States of America has been in since the great depression of the twenties. That is a reality. Not that this information is tantamount to the death of any soldier or civilian in Iraq today, or the [...]
The Symmetry of Car accidents, part 1
I want to take a moment and write a bit about car accidents.
My wife and children were involved in an awful wreck 10 days ago when their vehicle was struck by a driver who ran a red light at nearly 60 miles per hour. My wife was driving our Suzuki Reno and the car itself [...]
Marketing to different Cultures: Old Nintendo - Legend of Zelda Commercial
Haha. What a world, what a world.
Robotic Elmo
Wow. Pretty soon he will be able to process simple tax returns, make a good batch of salsa and play some rockband or guitar hero.
Decotara
I bought a very interesting book recently - ‘Decotara” by Japanese photographer Masaru Tatsuki.
Decotara is the combination of decoration and trucks. He spent nearly 10 years researching Japanese trucker culture. I learned about this book at this great site: http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/
I don’t think I have ever seen trucks with those side windows in the front [...]
