The Race Car Driver Diet!

With a tip of the hat to my friend Dan, this post at Wired has some really interesting information about the athleticism of race car drivers. One particular stat that knocked me off my chair:

It’s normal to sweat off 7 pounds during a race.

Wow!

The Generational Election

Great great post by Ray Ghanbari.

I responded to his survey, though don’t remember where I was in the mix. And for the record, I don’t sip lattes – I drink espresso, thank you very much .

Warren Buffet on the Wrigley Investment

I don’t know what commodity markets are going to do, but I do know that people are going to chew gum next year.

Politics & “Flip-Flopping”

I get a knot in my stomach every time I hear about some candidate whining that their opponent flip-flopped on this or that. As if changing one’s mind was a crime of some sort. You know what scares the shit out of me? People who are incapable of altering their position on things in the face of new information and change.

Coolest Clock. Ever.

With a tip of the hat to Ray.

Shaken. Not Stirred.

Bond Aston in the drink!

Doing Business in MA: Scary Wage Law Changes

I haven’t done a deep dive on this yet, but this sure does not look pleasant for the business climate in our fair state.

Basically, changes to the Massachusetts’ Wage Act take effect in July that call for employers to suffer treble damages in apparently any case of an employee being underpaid.

Now if you’re trying to screw your employees, you deserve what you get – for sure, and then some. But if you just make a mistake – an error in good faith (hell – I’ve made plenty of mistakes in payrolls over the last 15+ years!) – you are TOAST. Dyslexic and transposed some numbers? Tough shit. In the hospital for emergency surgery and the payroll provider had to run this payroll with last payroll’s numbers? Tough shit.

I hope I am misunderstanding this. This article suggests I am not. This is truly inane.

Twittering Again

I took a three month hiatus from twitting, but restarted this week. I think my disinterest grew from how I was interfacing with Twitter. I was running some desktop app and it wasn’t ’sticking’ for me. I’m now twitting via Tweetbar within Firefox (loving it – especially with AIOS) and I just set up ceTwit on my Treo 750. Let’s see where it goes from here! I played with Tumblr in the interim, but that wasn’t clicking for me.

http://twitter.com/sbroderick

SOHO Computer Desk

Over the last couple of weeks, a number of folks have remarked on my computer desk – what was it – where can you get one, etc.

It is a SOHO brand, wildly-adjustable thing that I purchased in 1997 or 1998 from the then-fairly-young MicroCenter store in Cambridge. I had understood that SOHO the company (which apparently was also fairly young then) went kaput and that was that.

HOWEVER, it appears that might not be the case! SOHO appears to have been acquired by a company called Mayline. The Mayline site does not list SOHO branded products, or anything like my table, BUT Google Products has all sorts of interesting relevant listings! Damn cheap too. I’ve beaten on my SOHO for a decade now and love it to death. It came with four shelves and four sets of adjustable shelf rails, and I purchased an additional “big-ass” shelf that can be used for your keyboard/mouse if you want bigger space (not shown above).

FWIW! Thought I’d share that Google link for the interested folks. Enjoy!

Dawn

There’s something so incredibly, wonderfully, ephemerally amazing about the cold, sunny, spring air at dawn.