Ben Sternthal & Friends

Luckily I am in iceland during the offseason so guesthouses are reasonably priced. As anyone working for startups knows, save money when you can! I am staying at The Ugly Duckling Guesthouse. Nestled next to a bar and this place strawberries…..

Yep. I walk by this every morning (and night).

Here are some photos of the TellMeTwin.com office in Reykjavik. I am consulting for Tellmetwin, they are doing some very cool things with social networking, psychoanalysis and product recommendations. The office is on the second floor of a building on the main street, Bankastraeti.

Figured I would get the touristy church photos and images of the city out of the way early.

Views from the top:

Snarky comments in the church guest book

Yep all my clothes pretty much fit in here.

Not sure if this is mac only (tried on safari and firefox), the healthvault signup is so buggy I cant even register.

The first signup page has my birthday filled in and greyed out.

Then the next page gives me an error and tells me to enter in my birthday. The field is greyed out and I can’t enter anything. Fantastic!

Yesterday was abnormally warm about 70 degrees, so we left work early and headed outside, a beautiful stream near cheat lake.

And the little guy I caught (and released).

I was recently given a pressure cooker and an entire selection of fresh spices (thanks alan), so I can learn to make yummy dahl. I found a few recipes here I will be trying http://www.showmethecurry.com/

I wish I took more photos of this building. It really is amazing inside.

1. fishing
2. skeet shooting
3. $$$
4. sample 3 or more types of jerky
5. moonshine
6. live in a big quiet house
7. read in a quiet sunny place

I’ve struggled to plow through the candidates health care initiatives and found this really good side by side comparison of each initiative.

There are a few good nuggets in here, including plan portability and getting insurance companies to make their claim adjutication tables public.