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<\/a><\/p>\nIt lends on commercial properties. It’s yielding 8% and the company seems on the right track. I read part of the annual report. The first part is the CEO’s impressive letter. To read it, click StarwoodLetter <\/a><\/strong>(I scanned <\/span>it my trusty Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Don’t see Mad Max. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Don’t see it even in 3D. Your amusement with the wonderful set and the crazy cars and trucks — the film cost $150 million to make — will\u00a0last about about 15 minutes before you\u00a0 get bored. Increasingly my problem with movies is I have trouble hearing and discerning all the dialog. I suspect my movie days are numbered. Renting movies and watching them with Sennheiser headphones, like these, works a lot better:<\/span><\/p>\n Buy them on Amazon for $68. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n AWeber is a neat mailing operation. <\/strong>My friend has started a new business called Change Activation training. He does a good job. You can watch his YouTube video here.<\/span><\/a> What I liked especially was the “Click here to download<\/em>” button. When you click you get sent to his site. You enter your email and you receive the PDF. The mailing process and mailing list management is handled by a company called AWeber. Good operation. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Technology at work.<\/span> S<\/strong>ophie, the granddaughter, visited the weekend. This is Claire, my daughter and Sophie’s mother, testing Sophie for poop. Claire’s nose is super-sensitive, like her father’s. Great photo? (Sophie tested positive.)<\/p>\n Most absurd movie yet.<\/strong> <\/span>Two models in Russia pose with a 1,400-pound, allegedly tame, bear to promote conservation. Would you?<\/p>\n For the movie, click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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