http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/ On The Road Again... en-us 2012-06-18T03:14:28-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000201.html I've been preoccupied with a poem, an excerpt of which was in a movie on a recent flight. It is reportedly from Tecumseh, a native american warrior/leader, but that is a matter of some dispute. Anyway, here it is, slightly... rick 2012-06-18T03:14:28-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000200.html John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl... rick 2011-02-14T20:52:40-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000199.html THE DEVIL AND BILLY MARKHAM (REDUX) The Devil walked into Starbucks on a rainy Silicon Valley night While the lost souls sat and sipped their drinks in the compact florescent light. And the Devil, he looked around the room, then... rick 2011-02-12T11:42:08-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000198.html Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg... rick 2010-11-11T11:19:08-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000197.html A careful man I ought to be, For a little fellow follows me; I do not dare to go astray For fear he'll go the selfsame way. I cannot once escape his eyes, Whatever he sees me do, he tries;... rick 2010-06-08T10:05:31-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000196.html Here in our little corner of Menlo Park, on the Atherton border, we don't think about crime much. I have cameras up because I'm in the camera business, not because I thought we needed them here. So I was surprised... rick 2010-06-01T21:10:35-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000195.html I'm crushed. I didn't want to believe at first, but the more I look into it, the more it becomes clear that the Snell rating, to which I've trusted my life, is misguided at best and a scam at the... rick 2010-04-03T13:54:17-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000194.html Just got this e-mail from clearsupport@flyclear.com: > Clear to Cease Operations > Dear XXX, > At 11:00 p.m. PST today, Clear will cease operations. Clear's parent company, Verified Identity Pass, Inc. has been unable to negotiate an agreement with its... rick 2009-06-22T19:31:25-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000193.html Google Flu (what it is and how it works here: http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html) can actually track flu outbreaks. Using the Internet. Wuh? That's not the only surprising thing. It doesn't show any flu outbreak in the southern half of the Cabo peninsula... rick 2009-04-29T20:20:49-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000192.html You know that express line at the airport to get past the security line? It's run by Fly Clear and, uhm, yeah, maybe it's a little bit elitist but it is SOOOOOOOOOO worth it. It's saved my butt a couple... rick 2009-04-14T12:09:04-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000191.html May all our children enjoy the freedoms and peace we have. Barack H. Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address. (note: I had originally linked to the CNN video, but they are apparently so old-school media that they took it down. Makes me... rick 2009-01-20T14:01:34-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000190.html Okay, not like it's so surprising or anything. I get passed by women, and girls, all the time. It was usually on the first big hill of an offroad triathlon when the leaders of the first women's group would start... rick 2009-01-16T11:05:48-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000189.html So, doing some simple math: if there are 100 million households in the U.S., a $25B bailout is $250 per household. Note that a bailout would be on top of $25B ALREADY given to the Big Three in the form... rick 2008-12-11T16:21:44-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000188.html Well, it looks like the house is about to pass a $700B boondoggle. They say this is necessary to “bail out” the mortgage mess, and if they don’t do it that the capital markets will lock up and it will... rick 2008-10-02T07:11:14-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000187.html Many of us grew up reading comic books (aka "Graphic Novels", if you take yourself waaay too seriously). They were entrancing, they sucked you into another world that was at once unbelievably amazing, yet amazingly believable. I read some X-Men... rick 2008-08-19T22:38:48-08:00