Posted in Commentary, tagged Airplanes, British Airways, Seatguru, Travelling on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I am sitting in the BA lounge waiting for my flight to London so I thought I’d post about a great travel website called Seatguru.com One of our travel managers recommended it and I have been using it ever since to check out my seat before checking in online. On this site, you can look up any seat on [...]
Posted in Commentary, tagged Catholic, News, Religion on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The other day when we went up to Los Angeles and passed by the Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, we saw just how aggressive their recruitment tactics are.
Here is a picture of the school on Sunset Boulevard. It is a charming old 1930’s era stone building.
But look closer behind the SUV and you’ll see their recruitment [...]
Posted in Commentary, Friends, Random, tagged business, CNBC, MEMC Electronics, Nabeel Gareeb, Random, WFR on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I was watching TV this morning and saw my old college roommate Nabeel Gareeb on CNBC. He is now the CEO of MEMC Electronics which is a $2B manufacturer of wafers.
Check out his interview below.
http://www.cnbc.com
When the rest of us were in college partying, he was up studying or working. His only vices were cars [...]
Posted in Commentary, tagged Housing, Irvine, Recession on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
The housing market here in the Irvine/Tustin area is clearly headed for a downfall. We have several properties on our street that have been sitting on the market for months. The number of foreclosures are at a record high and increasing monthly. On the weekends when we drive around, the “bank [...]
Posted in Commentary, tagged Angelo Mozilo, business, Countrywide, Countrywide Financial, subprime on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Do you believe a word being uttered by Mr. Mozilo?
Mozilo is the CEO of Countrywide Financial and is at the heart of the excess and greed demonstrated by the mortgage industry. For several years during the boom where prices on houses have risen as much as three fold, CFC originated millions of “sub-prime” [...]
Posted in Commentary, Entertainment, tagged 52XBR4, DirecTV, hdtv, sony, XBR4 on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I thought I’d provide an update on our Sony 52 XBR4 TV after having it now for a couple of months.
First, on the CNBC ticker problem I mentioned: I believe this to be a problem with CNBC and not the TV. Last week, DirecTV added CNBC-HD to their lineup and the ticker now scrolls [...]
Posted in Commentary, tagged China, food, food safety, health, imports, organic, pesticides, politics on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was struck by the news the other day about the massive recalls that Mattel has had to undertake due to lead paint in toys produced in China and the lack of controls or regulation of Chinese manufacturing practices.
Of more concern to me are the countless stories of food poisoning from products produced in China [...]
