New Watch

For the person who has everything, the new Devon Works Tread 1. It is only $15,000. Honestly, who spends that much on a watch?

It is a cool watch but I wonder how long the upscale watch market will hold up. I love watches and have a lot of them but young people no longer buy or wear watches. They all use their cell phones for the time of day.

I Wish

You have to love Steve Ballmer's humor. When market analysts asked him about his thoughts on the iPad he replied "they've sold certainly more than I'd like them to have sold." He went on to discuss how a new Windows based slate would decimate Apple's iPad market.

Mr. Ballmer is always good for a laugh. :-)

Living Right

Rick Norsigian, a commercial painter from Fresno California, is living right. Ten years ago he bought a box full of stuff at a garage sale for $45. It has been in the garage ever since. It turns out that the box contained 65 glass plate photos taken by Ansel Adams. These plates were thought to have been destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire.

Experts estimate that these glass photo plates are worth around $200 million.

Defining Heaven

Everyone defines heaven differently. This is Winnie's definition :-)

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A Sad Day

It is truly a sad day. The last roll of Kodachrome was processed at the Dwayne's Photo Service in Parsons Kansas. Throughout it's history, Kodachrome was loved by photographers worldwide. When Velvia came along, the demand for Kodachrome started to diminish. Then along came digital and the demand for Kodachrome was even worse. Kodachrome could only be processed by special labs. Dwayne's was the last Kodachrome lab in the country.

To this day, Kodachrome is the only film ever to have a song written about it.

Close Call

Talk about a close call. This pilot, Captain Brian Bews, barely escaped death at an air show in Canada today. To add insult to injury, he wrote off a $32M CF-18 Hornet. My bet is that this time next week he is working at Walmart :-)

Wrong Turn In Albuquerque

You know that you are having a bad day when.........