Had company over for the last week, hence my being away as long as I have. We went to Sequoia National Park and the Getty Center ( Read more... )

Ok, I've held out as long as I can. I need to get a new video card. I've been holding onto my nVidia 8800GTS 640MB since it came out, but it is having trouble holding its own on Bad Company 2. My FPS is averaging around 30-50. I'm still holding my own, but it is definitely holding me back ( Read more... )

I just got done watching a news documentary on CNBC called The Bubble Decade. Like it sounds, it analyzes the 2000-2009 years and the bubbles that existed within them; the tech bubble, housing bubble, and the private equity bubble. There had been bubbles in the past but they were usually small, isolated and didn't span nearly the same swath of ( Read more... )