I Join Business Week’s Elite Circle of $1 CEOs

Today I join the Elite Club of CEO’s who only take home a dollar in in
pay a year (or less). I announce to the world that as CEO of Better
than a Wooden Nickel, I will only get paid one virtual wooden nickel
all year. I have decided to link my future with the future of the
website. Don’t worry about me.

Full disclosure: If I get a wooden nickel every year from now on, I
will have over 40 wooden nickels by the time my natural life ends.
That is over two wooden dollars worth.

For a take on other CEOs who follow my path of putting the company
first, check out this Business Week article. Basically, it says that
some CEOs play all humble with the one dollar position but gets tons of stock options, that they
then backdate. Steve Jobs, who is one of the eminent 1 dollar CEOs, got
a least one free ipod last year, and I bet he didn’t pay taxes on it.

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Picture of a Wooden Nickel, like my father always talked about

Another map of subway systems

http://www.radicalcartography.net/?subways

Subway systems compared

This link compares the relative extent of subway systems over the world. What would be even more interesting would be a comparison of which subway station stinks the most. I have transited on many of these subways, and plan on hitting the rest of them before I expire.

http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/

A couple of interesting ones that I have been on although the scale of the Paris one seems off.

New York

DC

Paris

Seoul

Source for Cool Concert Posters – Philaarts.com

I bought a Decemberists concert poster recently from www.philaarts.com. great selection and good service, although you have to pay by check or paypal.

Speedread the internet — Get a RSS reader — Bloglines is my favorite

Slate says:

But there’s a way to keep track of the New York Times, the Washington Post, Talkingpointsmemo.com, Wonkette—most major newspapers and nearly all blogs—in a lightweight, speed-readable format that lets you scan dozens, even hundreds, of fresh headlines a day without the time-wasting tedium of opening one Web site after another. All you need to do is download and install an RSS reader, which is no harder than installing Netscape’s browser was in 1994. You can then scroll through cleanly organized headlines and story summaries. The result is an executive summary of what’s new on the Net today. When you see a story you want to read, you click on it. One screenshot is worth a thousand words:

My favorite reader is www.bloglines.com.

Buddy Lee’s Aero Speed Jump Rope — 5 Wooden Nickels

My favorite jump rope. While $35 is a lot to pay for a jump rope, having the best motivates me. Besides the user error that caused me to dislocate my knee when I tried to get fancy with my jumps, this rope is the best. The Buddy Lee, the obviously disinterested owner of the company that makes the jump rope, calls it the “Rolls Royce of Jump Ropes.” It was voted “the smoothest, fastest, and best-balanced rope, period” by Men’s Health and was also featured in Men’s Fitness and Men’s Muscle.

Buddy Lee though is a strange looking guy.

Sonos — Ipod for your house — 5 Wooden Nickels

If you want music in every room, and a way to control it, Sonos is what you need to get.

Playlist Magazine stated “The Sonos Digital Music System turns your entire home—or as much of it as you’re willing to pay for—into a system that can play any of your music, anywhere, at a moment’s notice. We haven’t seen a system that so effectively combines digital music, wireless convenience, ease of use, and gadget-lust fun.”

Blonde Redhead — All Brunettes — you heard it here first: 4 out of 5 Wooden Nickels

The latest album follows up on the old ones with high pitched female vocals by the Kazu Makino, the Japanese singer. She is married to one of the Italian twin brothers–Simone and Amedeo Pace–who make up the remainder of the band. One of them sings too, but I forgot which one since they look the same, being brothers and Italian.

Kazu was trampled by a horse a couple years ago, and at the show last night, she played keyboard while sitting on a stuffed horse.

23 album cover