July 2010
26 posts
IPhone Supply Chain Highlights Rising Costs in China - http://nyti.ms/av0hSi
Dinner in Menlo Park, after a pleasant exchange of emails with a certain lady (and prayers at an-noor, with good brotherly conversations).
RT @RAgainstSlavery: Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson
Listening to my Japanese language tapes en route to Gold’s Gym. I need another shower. This weather is murderous. Global warming blows.
London Evening Standard, “Why Morning People Rule the World.” So, maybe there’s hope where there’s faith and coffee: http://bit.ly/bX5miF
From the Washington Post, Keith R. Richburg’s “TV matchmaking show runs afoul of China’s morality campaign” http://bit.ly/9hRTqP
China Fears Warming Effects of Consumer Wants - http://nyti.ms/cGAb56
Ishaa’a at SBIA rather than @MCABayArea. Es tut mir lied, but this was closer. AsAk.
Funny finding a couple of folks here at the corner Starbuck’s. What odd coincidences life has to offer.
08:00 service www.trinityparish.org; 10:00 service St. John’s; chapel at Stanford hospital. Missed www.sjbetsuin.com; IA, ishaa @MCABayArea
Listening more than watching fireworks from across the street from www.sjbetsuin.com. Apologizing for not having attended…
Happy Fourth of July.
Managed to get to @MCABayArea just in time for salaat al-maghrib, alhamdulilah. Insha’Allah, may make ishaa’a at masjid Jamil in Palo Alto.
Checked for mail for www.sauberjanitors.com. Businesses take time to grow. Not fast enough in some cases, but persistence will pay off.
Coffee, Fuji apples. That’s it.
Pay Your Nanny on the Books http://s.nyt.com/u/h3Hk
Polar Ice Opens in San Jose →
Journal, Thursday, July 1, 2010 →
Prayers (salaat al-fajr) @MCABayArea masjid an-noor (with coffee en route, then back to work).
A gold and platinum carving set which is a family heirloom has yet to turn up in my total Spring cleaning. It does not appear to be at Moms
The intention to pray at a masjid is supposed to count, and many Muslims are content with less, but it still doesn’t sit well with me.
+ she has yet to turn up her gold earrings which went missing then as well.
There was a nice rug at Mom’s; it’s missing. She found a gold necklace she couldn’t find after staying at Stanford. It turned up, but +
Leaving Mom’s having visited for dinner.
…fortunately the Episcopalian in me is able to find forgiveness. Even if the way is dark and treacherous.
RT @thoughtscom: Santa Stops here http://www.thoughts.com/photos/2010-06-26111753jpg-276233/ #fail @davidsbass
June 2010
89 posts
“Let Your iPhone Think 4U” a comment made about an article in yesterday’s New York Times http://bit.ly/cEo8Ck
Observing that the use of psychological and pharmacological warfare is not limited to the military. Industrial and religious groups use it.
Out the door. Coffee and day planner in hand.
RT @nytimes: On our radar: The Cold War. Russian officials react to accusations of old-school espionage. http://nyti.ms/aMA5rL
Aufwachen, vor Tahajjud (zu Hause). Spaater, um Gott es willens, gehe ich nach an-noor (fajr) @MCABayArea. Gueten Morgen, Alles.
RT @alleyinsider: Employers: How To Avoid Being Sued Because You Checked Out A Job Candidate’s Facebook Profile by @biancamale http://bi …
Let Your iPhone Think 4U →
Santa Clara: Which genetic decorators decided local squirrels must all be black? There used to be brown ones. Selective extermination?
RT @Zeit_RSS: Umweltkatastrophe: Golf-Öl trifft auf Mississippi: Der dritte US-Staat hat direkt mit der Ölpest im Golf von Mexik… http …
Philosophy App - http://nyti.ms/au0hoq Gllad I haven’t eaten yet, otherwise I’d be staring down a toilet bowl. “AskPhil” to think for you?
N. Y. Times: Supreme Court rules 2nd amendment restrains governments’ rights to limit citizens’ rights to bear arms. http://nyti.ms/97YcWK
Argument for an innate sense of human justice: @mercnews Inmates attack dad suspected of trying to sell baby http://bit.ly/9w6sZZ
+ would not saddle a kid with “Jr.” Dad was offered the same choice and refused. Thank you, Dad.
My Marriott’s Rewards card arrives. It says “Mr. David Shaw Bass, Sr.” no doubt on account of how decrepit I am, because I sure as hell +
RT @mercnews: World Cup: U.S. falls to Ghana in extra time 2-1 http://bit.ly/9ZVweS
…I believe it’s called “procrastinating:” organizing things when you could be getting billable hours logged. Reality can be untidy…
www.washingtonpost.com, LYNCHBURG, Va: Muslim-turned-preacher discredited for inconsistencies in past statements - http://bit.ly/c1L7DYwww.washingtonpost.com, LYNCHBURG, Va: Muslim-turned-preacher discredited for inconsistencies in past statements - http://bit.ly/c1L7DY
Journal, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 →
Adam Liptik, of the NEW YORK TIMES (not the Post), “Justices Limit Use of Corruption Law” - http://nyti.ms/a7OkJ3
www.meriwest.com and www.heritagebankofcommerce.com are phenomenal institutions to bank with in Silicon Valley. They even put up with me.
Off to pray: fajr @MCABayArea an-noor; then to work.
+ Little risk of rusty nail syndrome with a fresh ceramic pinprick. The carpet needs going over anyways. ;^)
Showering off the blood from my left foot’s sole. When you smash a teapot for primal relief, sometimes a ceramic splinter spits back. +
The sun isn’t shining and barflies are still howling, but it’s morning for me. Maybe I like the dead of night because everyone’s so quiet.