Category Archives: random

How do you pay for a ride on SF Muni with a $20 and a $1?

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Rakesh Agrawal

Coming back from Berlin yesterday, I decided to take public transit. I took BART from SFO to Embarcadero station, where I had to switch to Muni to get home. The fare was $1.25 (after a paper BART to Muni transfer … Continue reading →

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15 people I’d want to have dinner with

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Rakesh Agrawal

Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group – He’s my kind of billionaire: irreverent, playful and working for the public good. Steve Case, co-founder of AOL – No one person did more to bring Americans online than Steve. I was … Continue reading →

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Stuff I learned in 2008

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

This year I realized how little Stuff matters. For more than four months, almost everything I owned was in a warehouse somewhere. Even when I got it into my place, I spent a good chunk of the year on the … Continue reading →

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Google guys = 2(newspaper industry)

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans puts Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page at #13 and #14 with a net worth of $15.9 billion for Brin and $15.8 billion for Page. That’s a bit less than the $20 billion … Continue reading →

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Sea-Tac arming grungy terrorists

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

Seen post security at Sea-Tac. Someone call the TSA and have their metal knives confiscated!

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Colgate squeezes out a product for a niche market

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

Kudos to Colgate-Palmolive for responding to a market need: three ounce tubes of toothpaste that fit into baggies that you can get take through airport security. I was pleasantly surprised to find this at Target before a recent trip. (I … Continue reading →

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Occasional reader – Saying no to Google, popcorn prices popping, economics and height, Pringles

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out – we mean it (Star Tribune) — A suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota has demanded that Google remove all images from Street View, citing its laws against trespassing. The city’s roads are privately … Continue reading →

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Old and new

Posted on May 17, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

Saw this odd juxtaposition of a Corona manual typewriter and Windows Vista Home Premium at a Noe Valley sidewalk sale today.

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Pimp my ride at Yahoo! Brickhouse

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

Web 2.0 has brought a lot of innovation in how we connect with people. Sites like flickr, Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube have unleashed the creativity of hundreds of millions of people across the planet. People have struggled to come up … Continue reading →

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Wanderlust

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

It seems that every time I walk through an airport, I walk by a plane with a destination more interesting than mine. This is what I saw when I landed in Seattle yesterday. The 757 that brought me there was … Continue reading →

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