A Washington man won the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay with a pumpkin that weighed 1,223 lbs. No, that’s not a typo. |
Google announced today that it will buy YouTube for for $1.65 billion. |
 In this episode, teams made their way from Vac, Vietnam to Hanoi, Vietnam. A first for the race, teams had to “listen” for their clue rather than find a clue box for their first task. This proved to be difficult for some of the teams because they couldn’t write down the names of their next destinations. The language (or literacy) barrier proved to be a pretty funny situation. Sadly, all the teams bunched up after the taxi ride waiting for a bus. Teams then made their way via bus to Ha Long Bay in Vietnam to get to their next Roadblock. The Roadblock was to use an ascender to go up a cliff using a single rope. No big deal right, except all of the sudden it was like “What!?” Peter made Sarah do the Roadblock even though she only has one leg and climbing is about leg strength more than it is about arm strength—everybody knows that. People with two legs could alternate between their two legs to do the climb, Sarah couldn’t. |
 In this episode, teams made their way from Mongolia to Hanoi, Vietnam. It was interesting that the teams started with zero dollars for this leg of the race. So teams that had not been frugal up to this point in the race were immediately at a disadvantage. Team Lesbian had very little money and thought that it would be a good idea to befriend a Vietnamese woman on the plane to show them where the Hanoi Hilton was. They actually waited for her to get her baggage from the plane before heading out in a taxi. They deserved elimination just for that dumb move! Once in the taxi, the woman took them a half hour out of the way so that the taxi would take her to her brother’s house before taking the Lesbian team to the Hanoi Hilton. Idiots! Adding insult to injury, they didn’t have enough to pay the taxi, which the taxi driver forgave, but left them without any money for the next taxi ride the following morning. |
According to a Moody’s Economy.com report, real estate prices in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties will rise about 3.6 percent a year for the next two years while home values in the East Bay are expected to decline by 6.4 percent. Apparently, there doesn’t appear to be much excess supply in the San Francisco market |
There was a huge fire on the corner of Clara and 5th Streets, only one half block away from our building, earlier today. The photo you see here was taken from my cell phone standing on the roof of our building. The building that was on fire, see smoke and firemen with ladders, was only about 150 yards away. I was on a conference call when the fire was in full swing and couldn’t even hear the commotion from our place. Melissa called me on the phone to tell me about it and I went on the roof to check it out. Here’s the story of the blaze from SFGate, it has much better pictures. |