…..on account of Facebook. I resisted joining for over a year and now that I am on, I’m spending a lot of time surfing around, finding friends from all about. It’s a real hoot.
Archive for the ‘The Internets’ Category
At least he didn’t talk about screwing the cat
January 13, 2009Henry Nichols is the founder of Broadcom, the integrated circuits manufacturer. He is currently on the list list of Forbes richest 200 Americans with a fortune estimated to be over $2 Billion.
He’s a tough on crime kinda guy, donating millions to California ballot initiatives that attempt to strengthen the laws in the state.
Among other things, he’s also currently under indictment for felony drug distribution, conspiracy and securities fraud.
Recently, he’s been trying to keep a specific email he sent to his wife from being used as evidence. And you know what? I don’t blame him. If there was ever an email to fight for, it’s this one.
Now kids, if old Uncle Chuckling Monkey can just pass on one small bit of advice, it would be: DON’T SEND ANYTHING IN AN EMAIL THAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO BE SHOWN TO A ROOMFUL OF PEOPLE ON AN OVERHEAD PROJECTOR. In my current line of work, deep in the jungle, I see emails on a daily basis that astonish me. Things that never should have been seen by anyone other that the author (and often not even them!) now exist in a hundred different places with attorneys drooling over the settlements they’ll bring.
Financial WMDs
October 13, 2008If you’re interested in an explanation of Derivatives and Credit Swaps, check out this podcast from the This American Life. It places no blame, it’s just an explanation. Well worth listening to.
Also, a few months back, I recommended a blog, Calculated Risk. Needless to say, I spend a lot more time there now-a-days. Check it out.
Calculated Risk
February 28, 2008It seems that one side effect of turning 40 is my increased interest in finances and the economy. One of the blogs that feeds this low level addiction is Calculated Risk. Most of it is way over my head but I still find it worth checking into every couple of days.
(And if by chance, you go back in time and run across a twenty-something Chuckling Monkey, please don’t let him know about this. If he found out that he was going to turn into a guy that followed financial markets, I’d hate to see what rash decisions he may have made. But you could buy him a beer, I don’t think that would mess up the space time continuum)
Online Time Wasting
November 21, 2007Another place to lose a few hours.
It’s a website that let’s you view the demographics of your zip code and then compare it with others.
Flickervision
November 12, 2007So I was hanging out here, zoning out to the edits popping up all over the globe. After a couple of minutes of Library Science Voyeurism, including (and I’m not making this up) an edit from Decatur, Illinois on Erection, I click on the Inspired by Flickrvision link at the bottom of the page.
Coordination
November 6, 2007When I IM’d a guy at work with this link, he responded with a link to the video below.
“These dogs are more coordinated,” he wrote.
Wikipedia
November 5, 2007Wikipedia (as most of you know) is a user generated online encyclopedia. It’s a great resource for most things, though you have to take everything with a grain of salt as the content is user generated anyone (ANYONE) can edit entries.
Here’s a cool website that tracks Wikipedia edits on a Google Map. It’s oddly hypnotic, watching the edits pop up from people all over the globe.
