Danny Novo
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Just “watched” Apple’s latest from their Worldwide Developers Conference, and they announced a lot of cool things, but they have left me, in the end, worried. In a nutshell, Apple hates me (us). Right now, we have one Mac, two iPhones and an iPad in the family (with another iPad on the way, we expect). We […]
The other day I was musing to the wife about how ridiculous it would be to spend stupid money, just because I had stupid money to spend. I mean, if I was a billionaire, I said, I could not imagine spending $150,000 on a car, no matter how electric or cool it was. It is […]
Google Finance, my favorite finance site, finally has real-time quotes. As they note, it’s about time. Here’s AAPL.
At roughly $90,000 each second, the SuperBowl advertisements were surprisingly blah this year. We watched the game at TiVo-speed, stopping to watch commercials or plays that looked important in triple-time. Of all the commercials we saw (and different markets got different commercials) we actually ended up liking two of the Bud Light commercials the best. […]
Just heard George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the radio, and I immediately wondered what a United Airlines commercial was doing on NPR. Seconds later I realized that it was a performance of the Gershwin piece, not an ad. I don’t watch commercials anymore, with TiVo in the house, but United’s campaign predated my TiVo […]
How’s that for an inflamatory title. But you know what, I’m pretty pissed. Executive Summary: We have gone to H&R Block each of the last two years, and each time the “Tax Advisors” there have screwed up our taxes, such that I have had to come home and do basic research on the Internet, take […]
