Scott Laronge

Companies are located less than a mile apart, both are in tech manufacturing, and the job responsibilities are quite similar.  Let’s hope one of these two goes well enough.

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матрациSo about a month ago my parents bought a new stove/oven from Sears.  It’s nice to have five functional burners that don’t need a match to start the flame, but the company forgot to include a broiler pan along with the unit.  Dad ended up calling the company twice to get one shipped off, apparently [...]

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Long before I became a stockbroker, I was interested in the markets.  And thankfully I had a grandfather who grew up during the Great Depression and worked as an engineer.  When he retired, he focused his energies on learning the stockmarket.  He sent me a letter when I was a kid once, and I eventually [...]

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There’s an old story about a guy walking out of a warehouse with a wheelbarrow filled with junk.  Thinking that the guy is trying to steal something, the guard goes through all the items in the wheelbarrow but can’t find anything, so he lets him pass.  The next day the guy is back and the [...]

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I recently got motivated to start up a new blog, located on a different sub-domain.  9anddine will focus on golf reviews and places to eat afterward.  There’s only a couple of older reviews I did back in 2000 for another site on there now, but as the weather gets better and the golf season starts [...]

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And I do mean those literally.
As I’ve written before, I’m passing time by coaching golf at my old high school.  Each season-boys and girls-lasts about 3 months from when we start practicing to when the playoffs end.  It keeps me busy during spring and fall as I get to be on the golf course for [...]

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Some background.  Andrea is my best friend from Sweden.  We met 10 years ago when she lived across the hall from me at Berkeley for a summer sessions and we get to see each other every couple of years due to our travels.  Since this was the first time she’d been back to California in [...]

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@scotttheorange
I expect my followers to increase by 18%, from 6 to 7, based on traffic to this blog alone.

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The nearest Ben and Jerry’s is about a 40 minute drive. Given that tomorrow is Earth Day, I don’t think spending 4 gallons of gas for a cone would be a good idea. 
However, I do feel slightly cheated.  Today was the last match of the boy’s golf season.  I only found out today that [...]

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I’ve bought a copy for 2 bucks in Mumbai and later donated it to the library at InterAmercano in Brazil.  My copy is sitting on my bookshelf at home.  At 1100 pages or so, I’m still trying to figure out how anyone can photocopy this tome that cheaply.  Even so, in the States I think [...]

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