How Not to Over Pay for Water in Hotel Rooms

While participating in a business meeting this past week that took a lot longer than it should have, I overheard this exchange between two top executives from a Fortune 100 company.
“The bottled water in my hotel room costs eight dollars !”
“Fill the bottle up with tap water after you are done and put it back [...]

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K. Vonnegut on Powerpoint Presentation

Not sure what question he was responding to. But Kurt Vonnegut wrote these seven points in Science Fictionisms twelve years ago. (Most likely to something like: How do you write well ? Wonder if his response came with the rolling of the eyes ?) He didn’t know then, but it sure [...]

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I might switch to PC…

I know this transcript is going to be floating around and about ether, just like Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford couple of years ago. But I am going to post it anyway.
It’s hard not to compare Jobs and Gates, although if you think about it, doesn’t make sense to me. In terms of [...]

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Chinese Pride

Heck, yeah ! Don’t mess with the Chinese. Make us look evil, murderous and cunning, but don’t make us look ugly, damn it !

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Calatrava’s Sundial Bridge

I always thought, how cool is it to be an architect known for designing bridges ? And what bridges Santiago Calatrava designs ! One is in Redding, California, a location I had to google to make sure where it is. It’s one of those places that you think you heard of, but don’t quite [...]

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Kobe

I don’t care if Kobe Bryant stays or goes, but the beef has got to stay. That’s $400 dollars a plate worth of authentic Kobe right there. And we had more. It was Kobe, Kobe and more Kobe Beef.  Shabu-shabu’d for perfection in merely three second of a dunk in a broth heated [...]

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Memory Dump

What I feared most seems to be true. I have always worried about all those useless information I keep storing in my brain bank. I suspected that too much frivolous information is precluding me from retaining more important data in life. The fear was confirmed by this new study. Looks like [...]

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Financial Bandits

Went to open a bank account at a bank close by. It made sense. I haven’t had one at a commercial bank for a awhile and using ATM and paying a buck to two to get money that is mine was getting to be a a drag. Think about all the [...]

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Soleil-Espace-Verdure

Sun, space and green. I’d like to believe those were the true elements Le Corbusier had in mind for his Radiant City. But reading his manifesto, he almost sounds tyrannical in his view of modern city: old decrepit structures from the past must be banished to clear way for unlimited production [...]

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