I heard it on The Wire - 0

Ahhhh ... The Wire ... I watch it every chance I get and am making some serious additions to my vocabulary because of it. So far, my favorites (and I'm only on Season 2) are -

• Most def
• Yo McNutty!
• Y'all need to get up in here in all this Chinese food yo!
  
• What up homes!
  
• 5-0, 5-0, 5-0
  

Looking for a cofounder

Since we can't all meet The Woz at our summer jobs, some sites to help you locate a potential co founder -

• Cofoundr - Allows you to see brief details about members before you sign up. Must have work or school address to sign up.
  
• Partnerup - The best developed of all 3 sites, will dig more into this one later.
  
• FounderLink - Still in development, no preview available, I had to sign up (private email allowed) just to see that there were 0 posts and 0 everything else.
  

And now I'm going to drive my parents up to Napa today (for their very first wine tasting!)

Grammar and The Wire

Ummmm... The Wire ???.... not so good for your grammar ...
Thank goodness I didn't get hooked on to it till I was completely done with GMAT sentence correction ;-)

Update: Miss Kima rocks!! (I just started watching so I'm beginning season 2 right now).

Startup ideas - 1

Universal texting - as in you can text landline phones.

• How would you display the message? (Convert text to voice mail on the answering machine?)
• Would this be easier with VoIP landlines?
  
• Is this even useful? (Should this be the first question I should have asked?)
  
• Well, its useful to text other appliances in your home (like turn on the heat or the oven or whatever). I even read about this appliance which is a refrigerator till you text it and then it turns on as an oven. From defrosting to dinner all by means of a text message...
  

Hey a geek can dream can't she?

Serenity prayer for agnostics

The Serenity Prayer for believers -

"God grant us the serenity
to accept the things we cannot change,
the courage to change the things we can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."


The Serenity Prayer for atheists and agnostics -

"We have (or will always strive to develop)
the serenity to accept the things we cannot change,
the courage to change the things we can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."

Tech startups - advanced degrees, founder ages, etc

The EETimes reports on a new study by the Kauffman foundation about the founders of technology and engineering startups.

3 interesting takeaways -

• The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders was 39 when they started their companies.

• U.S.-born tech founders with MBAs established companies more quickly (in 13 years) than others. Tech founders with PhDs typically waited 21 years(!)

• U.S.-born tech founders holding CS and IT degrees founded companies sooner after graduating than engineering degree holders (14.3 years vs. 17.6 years).

Note that the study only included US born tech founders. I wonder how the numbers would vary for non-US born tech founders founding tech companies in the US.

Even more reason to get an MBA!

The world's first working memrister

Resistors, capacitors, inductors and now finally (more than 30 years after it was first deduced) -
HP produces the first working memrister.

Nanotech may soon be a thing of the past, picotechnology here we come!

Update: ArsTechnica has more.

Wireless HDTV

Sharp ships the first wireless HDTV (in Japan) using an Amimon chipset. US markets will see the technology later this year.

To read later(Amimom chipsets use the 5Gz band and are FCC certified): Amimon's whitepaper