Yahoo

This will be interesting.
Shareholders potentially suing a company claiming they are taking the side of their employees over shareholders.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) on Saturday after the Internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by $5 billion to $47.5 billion.

Microsoft's offer was for $33 a share but Yahoo would not lower its demand below $37, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said. The software company initially bid $31 per share for Yahoo more than three months ago.

Laura Martin, a senior analyst at Soleil Securities, said she expected a number of shareholder lawsuits against Yahoo.

"The Yahoo guys want too much money for their company. We think $33 a share is fair in the context of the weakening economic environment and adverse advertising trends," she said. "They've prioritized employees over shareholders in the hopes that someday they can create more than $8 billion of value, even if they have no track record of doing so," she said.

Analysts say Yahoo has overplayed its hand and they expect the Web pioneer's shares to fall as much as 30 percent to $20 levels when Nasdaq trading resumes on Monday. The stock rose nearly 7 percent to $28.67 on Friday on hopes of an agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo.

Maps

I like Maps.

I have no use for this, but this is an interesting map:

This map concerns me:


This is my favorite:

Map of the US (Streets Only)

How would you do on a test to draw the US by memory?

What Earthquake?

I woke up to find a txt message from Tom asking about an earthquake.
I felt nothing.
There are many things about this story that don't make sense:

1. I am a light sleeper, if my bed was shaking I'd be in the know.
2. Lucy "Thunderclap" would have jumped right into bed with us if she even heard an earthquake let alone felt it (she slept right through).
3. Zach was up getting ready for work and felt nothing.
4. My house is between Tom's and the earthquake.
5. It just seems weird that a 5.2 earthquake SW of Louisville would shake houses in Ohio.

So I started doing some Geology searches on Google and created this map.
I used a Geology map of Ohio and Google maps to eyeball our locations as best I could. I'd really need some long/lat data to confirm this.


My theory is this earthquake traveled this deep vein of bedrock that did not go by our house. Based on this map I made I would predict that ONLY Tom and Meghan would have felt it (which is true now that Dale confirmed he didn't feel it).

Most of the people at work who felt it live near Lawrenceburg, IN which looks to be close to this vein as well as a lot of the west side.
This map includes roads and towns which may help or be too much info:

What would be neat is I bet the new owners of Karen and Jim's old house had a good chance of feeling it since it looks like this vein runs close to Fairfield.

Cube Life

My work group moved across the street into open office cubes for increased collaboration.
I'm adjusting OK, Bose QC3 headphones certainly help. But some people are still ridiculous despite our etiquette training. They still talk loud and have conference calls on speaker phones and cell phones not on vibrate.
So I created a Demerit system (using a Whammy from Press Your Luck) and this sliding scale from the Office:

Movie Endings

Movies with the best endings (my opinion, please add):

Usual Suspects

Ocean's 11

Fallen

Sixth Sense

Se7en

Memento

2 Days in the Valley

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I'm sure I am forgetting some really good ones...

Last Lecture

This is really good if you can make it to the end (Thanks Henley)



Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.

Auto Salon in Sharonville

I love my car. I wouldn't even know where to look for a new car if mine was stolen. My plan is to keep my car for at least 10 years (I'm over 4 now).
With softball and the winter my car was pretty dirty.
I had seen this detailing shop in downtown Sharonville (near Blue Goose) and thought about going for years. This weekend the weather was so nice I cleaned everything out of my car and made an appointment to have my car detailed.
I couldn't be happier with the results, my car hasn't looked this good since I bought it. The guy who owned the shop was really nice too. He called me during the day to let me know it was taking longer than he planned due to other deliveries. He even called me at home after because he forgot to tell me he put my XM radio in the globe box and didn't want me to think that he lost it.
If you need your car done, I highly recommend this place.