Samuel’s HQ

Here is a new interesting article from the New York Times.

Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The $1.3 million house he and his wife own on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean is paid off. The couple’s net worth of roughly $3.5 million places them in the top 2 percent of families in the United States.

And the funniest part:

Most mornings, he can be found at his desk by 7. He typically works 12 hours a day and logs an extra 10 hours over the weekend.

I think it really show the mentality of people here. I wish I was this guy, not for the working time (I’m almost like him… ) but for his net worth

• The post on the New York Times (64 hits)
• Top 10 millionaire counties (154 hits)

Between 8 pm on Friday August 31 and Tuesday September 4 at 5 am, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be closed in both directions. Not since the Loma Prieta Earthquake which shut down the entire structure for one month has the bridge been completely closed.
Labor Day Weekend 2007 is host to the Sausalito Arts Festival, Giants and A’s games, Critical Mass and long weekend travelers and visitors.

Congestion on all Bay Area roads is expected to be significant and Caltrans is launching a massive outreach campaign statewide to notify the traveling public of this closure.

• http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/ (74 hits)
• Why are they doing this? (74 hits)

I missed the concert of Daft punk in the bay area last week… I heard about it, it seems it was really really good…  I found one photo of the concert…

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Lot of colors… and human after all

• http://www.daftpunk.com/ (93 hits)
• Videos (104 hits)

It’s finally open! The first vertical wind tunnel is opening in the bay area… it means freefall during lunchtime

• http://www.iflysfbay.com/ (175 hits)

A man approaching his 78th birthday is asking $10 million for an island located in San Francisco Bay, which he has been trying to sell for more than six years, according to a report by the Associated Press (119 hits). He bought the property in 1964 for $49,500.

• Google maps  (105 hits)