Michael’s Two Cents

Normally I don’t make new years resolutions because I’ve done pretty well simply following my nose. But this year I’m going to do something quite a bit different… I’m going to make a plan. For me this is a completely foreign thing to do. Here are three resolutions:
Resolution 1: Focus more on fewer projects.

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We were running an errand today and on the way home spotted this guy in his extra large yellow 4×4 with the words ‘YES ON 8′ written boldly on the front, back, and sides. For all I know it was written on the roof too just in case the CHP in the helicopter wondered where [...]

This is funny, tasteless and completely politically incorrect (except for the Obama part of course), but definitely funny.

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You might have read in the New York Times article that Julia and I long to move back to Mendocino County, downsize, and simplify. Here’s what Steven Kurutz wrote in the article.
“Instead, he wants to be a living example encouraging people to downsize, even if it’s only to a moderately smaller home. The Janzens plan [...]

Today I took down emptum.com. It was a free classified site I coded in a weekend a couple years ago. I simply realized that it makes sence to focus om the things that interest me and dump the baggage. I also noticed that most of the traffic was spam from India, Africa, Asia. and Eastern [...]

Good news, the skies in California are clearing again. I’m sure there are a few fires left burning but as you can see the Sacramento skies are turning blue again.

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For the past couple weeks California has been under a cloud of smoke, literally. Here in the Sacramento area we’ve been more of less choking on it and the fires are relatively far away. The photo above is looking over my house toward the sunset. Normally you’d expect the sun to be orange or red [...]

Watch this video from TED. Do you know TED? TED is an annual conference where the most amazing thinkers in the world get together and talk about issues and solutions. They share ideas. Now all of us can see what they’re talking about through short videos.
It’s a video of Clay Shirky (in 2005) explaining how [...]

What’s up with FOX? They seem have started their campaign against Obama with lies and smears. It’s one thing to support the candidate but to call yourself a news organization and tell lies? Dude!
First, a paid FOX commentator accidentally confused “Obama” with “Osama” and then joked on the air about killing Obama. Next, a FOX [...]

My niece Brittany just had her first baby, Carmen. Happy birthday Carmen! At the moment all we know is that she went into labor last night late and woke up to this photo in our inbox this morning. I’ll post an addendum when we get the full scoop. It must have been a long night.
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