Facebook IPO, now, why?

Riding the curve is what VC's do.  They want to ride it up.  Oh, do they want to ride it UP!

But,  if the VC's have an admonition, if VC's see the curve only going up for a bit more, then the time to go public is ASAP.

(heard on the Street: Google's on their ass with +, plus a search engine which Facebook don't have)

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Maybe all this is just distraction.  

You think the CIA wasn't involved in Egypt?, Libya, Syria, the USA?

Money must be concentrated in a few people's pockets (or electronic accounts) for "jobs" to be created.  

Concentration of wealth is what has made America Great.  

Mr. James Rokakis, ex Cuyahoga County Treasurer and new land bank guy, in response to very appropriate questions about transparency of the land bank from Cleveland City Councilman Brian Cummins at the  City Club of Cleveland, made a few disparaging comments about "citizen journalists" who were "up at 3 am" posting unflattering comments about JR to the internet.

This image is the second most popular item on Realneo.  Guy knows.    

Google Analytics shows that  a search for "homeless man" returns - under images - realneo as second or third with Guy's posted image (above).  

I have to say that Guy knows what everyman is interested in, and is savvy enough to post the info here to Realneo, where the content is preserved.   

Pacific Electric had over 500 miles of inter urban track in Los Angeles in the early 1900's.  The image shows the "Red Cars" stacked for sinking in Los Angeles Harbor - sunk austensibly for "fish habitat", but really sunk for General Motors Corporation profit.

First it was waterpower, then it was coal fired steam power.  3000 horse power boilers feeding line shafting through out a huge multi storied brick New England Mill.   Machines like these - drill presses, planers, lathes, - all turning, mechanically powered through line shafts and leather belting.   

Amazing.    

 H5N1 is a secret - well, what's secret is how it was mutated....

The World Health Organization (WHO) will release the info about H5N1 later - much later.

The brick building was built in 1895 as a dormitory with operable windows.   The window hung air conditioners were added in the 1970's.   

 As I age

 I try to force myself - on every issue (on multiple levels) - to think backward - to think upside down. To think like I was crazy. To think like I was evil minded. To think like I was rational and above it all . To not think and jerk my knee.   OUT OF THE BOX!!!   What's the answer?.... 

These analogue TV's dumped in front of book donation boxes are a lucid example of how our government - local, state, and federal -  miserably fails us.

Across the United States corporations are encouraged to SELL SELL SELL (our "economy" is 70% "consumer" driven) - and yet our legislators never ask the obvious question: 

|What's going to happen to all the old crap which the new crap displaces?

Both of these images show organically produced fiber - and both the fiber in the donkey's fur and the fiber in the American white ash have extremely  similar wavey structure.   

Is there a similar gene in the wood fiber and hair fiber which is associated with the wavy-ness?   

Computer + camera = faster (but usually not better) than the eye.   But faster than our brains.   High Dynamic Range (HDR) image capture is a high speed multiple sampling - with the camera's built in computer analyzing the underexposed and overexposed frames and combining them.

If you put this image into Wolfram|Alpha Pro - ?

At one point in time Cleveland - about 50 years go - was the headquarters for more than 50 of the top 500 American Corporations.  

Many of those corporations were industrial manufacturers.

Mr. Dimora was always about 15 minutes late to meetings he attended - I was there.   Just a  little slap in the public's face, no matter.

Now, however, with the ongoing federal trial in Akron, Ohio, Mr. Jim Dimora is finally giving us taxpayers a little value.  

   All "authenticated users" (an "authenticated user" is any user who has created a user account) of Realneo.us are now able to comment without moderation - comments do not pass through an "approval queue" ( the  Drupal software which runs realneo does have such a "comment approval queue" as an option - that option is not being used presently).   Spam comments ( comments - esp.

For twenty bucks ($20) from Amazon.com an acquaintance (a USAF fellow) bought his daughters a radio controlled helicopter which came down for this photo. 

Twenty dollars for the wireless controller and the Gyro helicopter? I asked.  Crazy  

The image above is of the Goodyear Wrangler tire which blew out on the rear axel of my van.  

Every car has a tire constructed just like this.  Fabric (polyester, etc) cord running across the tire, and steel cord alligned around  the circumference of the tire. 

Synthetic rubber everwhere in between.

When it blows up - this is what it looks like.

De-lamination.

Civil Discourse in Cleveland hit its high with Ed Morrison's Regional Economic Iniciatives , (Betsy Merkel and Susan Altshuler organizing Ed) (and Craig and Sue James as facilitators). Sorry City Club, your conversations are  1 way.

I was lucky to find out about these Tuesday afternoon free civic meetings by chance.   Don't really know why I went...

 You don't find many women mechanics - why is that ? Sure, there is the oil and grease which gets under your fingernails and in your skin, but there are surgical gloves which can help.

The image above shows the harvesting of salt from the Cargill salt ponds on the southern end of Bonaire, WI.  

There are just two employees - one operating the Caterpillar dozer and one driving the Caterpillar belly dump.  The belly dump is filled to overflowing in just a few minutes.   Much of this salt gets shipped by sea to the icy parts of North America for road de-icing.   

The image above shows a pattern of weathering erosion  in the stucco surface on the easterly facing vertical wall of a masonry building on Bonaire, WI. 

Stucco is applied to the wall with a trowel from a mortar hod - the mortar is loaded into a hod after the stucco is mixed in a rotary mixer or mixed in a wheelbarrow or on at flat surface.

They say that the best camera is the one you have with you.   It's true. 

Carry a camera, and you are more apt to get the images. 

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When I went to my friend's gas station, there was Larry, reading the newspaper next to the desk in the office, with his glasses almost falling off his face.

  "Today is the 30th birthday of the man who holds the European record for reciting pi from memory, Daniel Paul Tammet. It took him five hours and nine minutes to recite 22,514 digits of pi (the number that begins 3.14).