4th of July Festivities

Trent and Frodo were in town last week on vacation and we had quite the 4th of July celebration. We started out by buying several pounds of raw oysters from Uwajimaya’s in the International District of Seattle, taking them home and feasting on them till we were all nice and full. We had a bunch of snack foods and beer as well.

Below, Andy opens one of the oysters.

andy opens oyster

Eating oysters on my rooftop deck while we wait for the fireworks show to begin. Below is the whole crew that went along. From the left: Trent (high school & college friend/ Finance manager for law consulting firm), Andy (Ernst & Young consultant, chess partner), Frodo (Venture capitalist), me (drop dead gorgeous Business Analyst), Plato (UW 3L law student).

oysters on joels deck

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Digital Auto Gauges Now Live!

My new website, Digital Auto Gauges, is now live! I am selling a variety of aftermarket digital gauges (such as speedometers, voltmeters, oil temp gauges and more) through our business partner. Digital Auto Gauges is my first ecommerce website that I directly control (as opposed to consulting on other ecommerce websites). I am really excited about it and hope that it is able to take off.… read more “Digital Auto Gauges Now Live!”

How to Type Upside Down

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Interested in learning how to type upside down?

A very simple tool for flipping the text you type upside down is available here. Google recently has been spammed by someone using upside down text on their Google Trends application which shows hot upcoming keywords.

You can use the type upside down trick to put text into most interfaces, including Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Microsoft Word etc.… read more “How to Type Upside Down”

All American Budweiser Beer Now Belgian

Anheuser-Busch, the giant American beer brewer, has agreed to sell itself to InBev, the even larger European brewer, for $70/share.

The major American breweries have all been sold off to foreign companies. Miller was sold to SAB (South African Breweries) in 1999 and Coors was sold to Molson of Canada in 2005, which in turn was merged with SAB-Miller.… read more “All American Budweiser Beer Now Belgian”

Risks of Economic Collapse Increasing

Day by day, more bad news about the economy has been rolling in. Many major banks have had to go hat in hand to foreign governments to get capital, the government stepped in to prevent the collapse of Bear Stearns and now it appears that Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae will collapse. Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae are by far the biggest providers of financing for mortgages in America and since the government set them up with special privileges and rules, the government is expected to step in and help them.… read more “Risks of Economic Collapse Increasing”