Chrysler is supposed to be filing for bankruptcy either today or tomorrow. The company is no longer solvent and needs to attempt a Chapter 11 reorganization according to sources near Barack Obama. Apparently the US Treasury is offering $2.25 billion in taxpayer funds to have Chrysler’s lenders wipe out its $6.9 billion in secured debt.
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Swine Flu Outbreak: Google Map
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
Swine Flu Case Reported in New York City
There has been a swine flu case reported at Ernst & Young in Times Square. ‚ I wonder if this will cause a panic/exodus of people from New York City or if people will just ignore it and go about their daily lives. ‚ The swine flu has been the major topic of news and one of the hottest searched items in the last week.
Swine Flu Spreading
A dangerous new strain of the flu that humans have no immunity to is rapidly spreading in Mexico.‚ All public events and schools in Mexico City have been shut down until further notice.‚ So far 81 people are dead and 1,324 have been infected.‚ Apparently children have some sort of defense against the swine flu that adults do not.‚ … read more “Swine Flu Spreading”
Time to Factoria
From the center of downtown Seattle it takes 12 minutes to reach my new home with no traffic. Up to 20 minutes with normal traffic during rush hour coming over I-90.
Moved to Factoria Today
Plato, Nick and my grandpa were kind enough to help me move today in exchange for Dim Sum in the International District. I’m not sure what to think of Factoria at this point. I’ll give it a fair chance, but it is definitely suburbia. I’ve also started to feel restless lately… maybe I’ll sell everything and move to Tibet and worship monkeys or whatever they do there ;).
Charlie The Unicorn Funny Video
Let the economy crash…
Andy pointed out a good article explaining what we need to do to resolve the economic problems the Western world is having.
Eggs & Kimchi
I tried making eggs with kimchi this morning and had a bit of a failure… I put the kimchi in the eggs too early and ended up cooking it a bit so it doesn’t taste as good.‚ And I made an 18 egg omellette.‚ Ugh.
Conficker: Monster Computer Worm About To Go Live
On April 1, 2009, the world’s largest computer worm will go online creating potentially the most powerful parallel computer in history, harnessing the power of 12 million or more computers captured.‚ Previous computer hackers have used their enormously powerful bot networks to do such inane things as try to hack captcha’s or send spam.‚ Hopefully the hacker who created Conficker has no higher ambitions.‚ … read more “Conficker: Monster Computer Worm About To Go Live”