Snapshots from TEDScreening of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth Menlo Park CA April 20 2006

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Oh there’s me at the movies….

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Originally uploaded by merrells.

Stowe may have sold his chest space for the next six months, but he’ll always have his sxip underware on.

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Originally uploaded by merrells.

Sad but true… someone’s built a PDP-1 replica… a computer design almost as old as me. Behind those lights and switches is actually an aged laptop running an emulation… but it looks good.

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An Inconvenient Truth

Originally uploaded by merrells.

I attended a preview of a movie this afternoon at the Guild in Menlo Park, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’: a scary movie about global warming and climate change. It’s a must see film!
It intermingles two thirty year stories. The first is [...]

Fond memories of ‘eTime Capital Inc’.

Originally uploaded by merrells.

Alternative Title:
‘Nice-guy George, the investor sponsored CEO, looks on as specious founders gorge on VC cash.’
I wonder where they are now?
eTime Capital, a 1999 startup, burned through ~$40m of cash before smacking itself into the side [...]

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Originally uploaded by merrells.

My friend David Boreham, one of the smartest guys I’ve ever met, has been quietly working away on something very cool. Blueshoo
This week he’s been teasing some VC’s with it. Apparently, “Valley VCs are talking about it between the stalls as they [...]