Archive for March, 2008
Alaskan Pollock
Watching a History Channel special on “Alaskan Pollock” fishing makes me never want to eat fish sticks again. I am going to try to avoid eating fish paste products from Japan and McDonald fish filet sandwiches. Why? Well, I don’t like seeing how they put a giant a$$ net down on the ocean floor and [...]
Blame it on the commies
At dinner Tran asked why the Vietnamese community is so pissed off that they cannot have the name “Little Saigon” in San Jose. She did not understand why a guy was willing to go on a hunger strike in protest over a simple name change. I didn’t know either, so I went to ask my [...]
Frugal living
I want to extend my last post about “becoming a better person” by adding “frugality” to the list. Today Forbes magazine released their list of the riches people in the world. Warren Buffet is number one, and Carlos Slim is number two. The striking similarities between these two men is their frugal life style. It [...]