I’ve added a new T-Shirt design.  Its based on Wikipedia Calculus entry, designed with wordle.net.  I make the design available under GPL. You can download the graphic here.  (Click link, then Right-click and choose Save Picture As)

If you want it on a T-shirt now, with minimum fuss, visit http://www.cloudclothes.com

Tags: calculus, cloud clothes, t-shirt, wordle

Lucy and Ricky make their lolcats debut. 

moar funny pictures

REI.com is offering 10 free music downloads sponsored by various ski and board makers.

Click here and look mid-page to “Download your FREE Winter Soundtrack” of ten MP3 downloads.

Playlist:
Persephone’s Bee’s, “We’ve Just Begun” - MP3 presented by Salomon
Quadrillion, “Dropped” - MP3 presented by Ride Snowboards
Saxon Shore, “Bar Clearing Good Times” - MP3 presented by Volkl
Ohmega Watts, “Can You Hear it” - MP3 presented by REI.com
Robbers on High Street, “Training the Tricks” - presented by The North Face
The Apples In Stereo, “(baby its’) So Cold - MP3 presented by Burton
Eagles of Death Metal, “Now I’m a Fool” - MP3 presented by K2
Au Revoir Simone - “Fallen Snow (redux) - MP3 presented by Marmot
The Rentals, “Colorado” - MP3 presented by Smith Optics
American Analog Set, “Ice King” - MP3 presented by Rossignol

REI-Outlet Secret Sale! Use coupon code SECRET8 oct 13-20

Tags: American Analog Set, Apples in Stereo, Au Revoir Simone, Burton, Eagles of Death Metal, K2, Marmot, MP3, music, Ohmega Watts, Persephones Bees, Quadrillion, REI, Ride Snowboards, Robbers on High Street, Rossignol, sale, Salomon, Saxon Shore, ski, Smith Optics, The North Face, The Rentals, Volkl

This post has been moved to its own page WP Code Cloud

Tags: cloud, Code Cloud, Free Software Foundation, GPL, open source, t-shirt, wordpress

Cloud Clothes is my latest internet project and quite possibly the most fun yet!   The first product line revolves around Wordpress open source code as rendered by wordle.net.  Click on any product below to enter my shop.  Right now it is cool products for bloggers….more to come….

Custom T-Shirts. Order Now!

Tags: cloud, code, internet, t-shirt, wordle, wordpress

Found a new fun and useful toy on the internet: BuzzDash. It allows you to create surveys real quick and easy. The survey comes with instructions to insert in your blog or website. If the BuzzDash folks think the survey is interesting to a wide audience, they run it on their website too.

Here’s my public survey for investors. I really wish I had before and after data for the latest events on Wall St to see if more people opt for trading over buy ‘n’ hold. Please vote now!

Tags: buzz dash, investors, trading

I created another blog, Backtesting Blog, to focus on historical testing of (stock) trading stategies.   I also plan to post other trading-related articles at that site. Click the link to check it out and vote on your favorite market to trade.

Tags: backtesting, backtesting blog, stock trading, trading

Here’s a couple notes to catch up on the hiking scene.   Yesterday, we saw a relaxing coyote and circling red-tailed hawks at Windy Hill Open Space.   No sign of my mysterious black and white dihedral-winged hunters.

The coyote froze in its tracks as we came around the corner for the last long pull up Spring Trail.   After perceiving no threat, it lay down in the tall brown grass and rolled.   As we approached up the trail, it oh-so-casually decided to get up and investigate the smells on the far shoulder of the hill.

Returning down the hill, we spotted two circling hawks.  One sped to attack speed and dive-bombed the oak tree but came away with empty claws.

Another beautiful day in the neighborhood!

Tags: coyote, hawk, open space, red-tailed hawk, windy hill

You can have my Coke Rewards points.  I recently heard of a bunch of complaints about the Coke Rewards program.  I want to tell people about a better offer from Ipsos.   In case you don’t know, Coke offers Rewards of gifts and prizes as a loyalty program for buying their products.  Ipsos offers Rewards of gifts and prizes in return for taking surveys.  Here’s why I think the Ipsos offer is better:

1. My Coke Rewards make you buy products. Ipsos doesn’t cost anything and you are sometimes given the product for review.
2. My Coke Rewards involves mostly sugary or artifically products. Ipsos surveys don’t have sugar.
3. My Coke Rewards is mindless, Ipsos engages your brain at least a little.
4. The My Coke Rewards program is ending soon, but Ipsos continues indefinitely.
5. Ipsos has an affiliates program so I get a small payment when people sign up through my links.    

To be fair, both seem slower ways to actually get products than just buying products from your wages.  Ipsos possibly takes more time to do surveys than My Coke Rewards.  On the upside, anyone can sign up and earn rewards without spending any money.

I’d rather do the Ipsos survey program over My Coke Rewards.   I’ll give my Coke Reward points (from a 12-pack of Fanta) to the first person who comments on this article. 

Tags: Coke, coke rewards, internet, ipsos, rewards

Grand Canyon Journal

Grand Canyon Wikipedia Entry

Tags: Grand Canyon, wordle