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First off, on twitter, someone named Naomi Klein called my book “Gross”. I looked her up on wikipedia. Turns out we have a lot in common. She wrote some books (see below picture). She also “spent much of her teenage years in shopping malls.” So did I! And she has a lot more twitter followers […]

Kelvin Tom, wherever the hell that bastard is, owes me big time. When I was seven years old he borrowed the complete blueprints of the USS Enterprise from me and never returned it. He lived right next door to me but was four years older and four feet taller. I want it back! Give it! […]

Where did Greece go? I couldn’t find it on the map of the world this morning. I have a globe and I spun it around. No Greece. I opened up the newspaper. Read it cover to cover. No Greece.  I  tried calling some friends over there. But I couldn’t even remember their names or their […]

Many people have said to me in the past month, “I’m going to buy a home.” Or, “What do you think of the idea of me buying a home?” I like the second batch of people. They are my friends and it seems like they are sincerely asking for my advice. And I’m going to […]

I made the worst decision in venture capital history in late 2000. I was a partner at a venture firm called 212 Ventures. What? You never heard of it? We had $100 million from Investcorp, $5 million from CS First Boston, $5 milion from First Union (which became Wachovia) and $5 million from UBS. I […]

So I failed again. It was one of my New year’s resolutions. I was going to learn Spanish. But you really have to go to someplace where they speak Spanish all day long. Then you have to stay there for fifteen years and watch telenovelas all day long. Then you can maybe speak to people […]

[Temporarily adding to this post this link; http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Possible_damage_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_2_1503111.html . They are providing real up to date info on what is going on in Japan. Please try to ignore the panic-mongering that is happening out there right now. While this is a serious situation (the most serious) it doesn’t pay to panic. We still have to […]