http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/ On The Road Again... en-us 2009-06-22T19:31:25-08:00 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 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000186.html It's 3am and Logan is awake, I hear him through the walls. So is Buddy. Melissa isn't awake ... or if she is then she's pretending to sleep. I get up, make a bottle, scoop Logan up from the crib,... rick 2008-08-05T12:41:18-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000185.html Well, for people born in 2004 (our kids are pretty close), here're the numbers: National Safety Counsil That should help us focus on what's important to worry about and what isn't. Note that the statistics do NOT normalize for activity.... rick 2008-07-23T14:25:12-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000183.html All animal shelters should be like this. Check out their homepage. This video is a great overview: Please consider making a donation too.... rick 2008-06-04T09:48:55-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000182.html I recently bought my second Acer notebook, after my Acer Ferrari 4000, the Travelmate 8210. It's great. Nice and thin, looks sharp, dual core processor, big screen, carbon fiber case, fast graphics card, webcam, smart card reader, dual layer DVD... rick 2007-09-16T13:11:40-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000181.html Okay, I promise not to be the really annoying person who just posts tons of pics of their kids and e-mails video clips and goes on and on and on about the baby ... but people are bugging me for... Logan rick 2007-07-26T10:50:31-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000180.html Logan Alaric Bentley was born today at 8:55am. 9lbs 12.4oz. Mother and baby are doing great. Aunt, Father, and Maternal Grandmother pictured above. More later, back to the moment now.... Logan rick 2007-07-20T14:21:40-08:00 http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/000179.html (backstory: as with her sister, China, I started on Loli's poem when she fell ill and released it upon her death.) Lolita Berhow. February 28th, 1993 - July 6, 2007 Bid-Dump. ba-dimp. Bid-Dump. ba-dimp. Bid-Dump, there goes Loli off to... rick 2007-07-08T09:36:26-08:00