We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, the food and company were both great. We spent dinner Thursday at my parents' place and Friday was with Vinney's parents (both sets of parents were present each evening, it was just a matter of who did the cooking and where the eating was done). My biscuits and mashed potatoes turned out fine but Vinney's apple pie was absolutely amazing. I personally don't like apple pie (or usually any desserts with fruit in them) but I definitely made an exception for this apple pie. I actually snuck in a second slice (more people showed up for Thanksgiving than originally planned so supplies of the pie were limited)...it helps being married to the chef who made it :)
We spent a couple of nights hanging out with a good friend of ours (we call him Manny) in NC. He was actually a mutual friend that both of us knew for so long before we were introduced. We ended up playing a lot of Halo 2 online, which is pretty typical for us. Now if they'd only hurry up and release Half Life 2 multiplayer maps (not a big Counterstrike fan) we'd be set.
Before we left for Raleigh I didn't know what to expect, but after being down there for several days and returning to Branford I was just reminded of how much I miss living down there. I could actually drive around and find fun roads and on top of that there was absolutely no traffic compared to what I encounter up here on a daily basis. I was in desperate need of a good drive so I called in a favor (or two) and borrowed something sporty to go for a little spin in for a bit one day - and it felt good.
When we were down there we had a meeting with our builder and went down to visit the lot where our new house will be built. I'm far more excited about building this house than I was the first one simply because this one was designed from the ground up by Vinney and I and it'll be our first house together. There's not much to look at on the lot itself just a lot of overgrown grass, but they just put stakes in the ground marking where the house was going to be and that was more than enough for me to look at. We met to approve the placement of the stakes but the feeling of standing where our future deck would be and looking out over the rest of the lot brought out a feeling of elation that just put a smile on my face. It's going to be a long and hard road to get this house built over the next year and a half, especially with us up in CT, but with the help of my mom and a lot of luck it should be a beautiful home for us to return to in 2006.
The lab is a mess up here (it always gets this way after a big article...especially if I hop on a plane after I'm done with it), so I'm going to spend a good part of today cleaning it up and getting things organized before I get to work...but work I will, I didn't get much done over Thanksgiving but I'm rested, relaxed and well fed, so there should be nothing holding me back.
Take care
We spent a couple of nights hanging out with a good friend of ours (we call him Manny) in NC. He was actually a mutual friend that both of us knew for so long before we were introduced. We ended up playing a lot of Halo 2 online, which is pretty typical for us. Now if they'd only hurry up and release Half Life 2 multiplayer maps (not a big Counterstrike fan) we'd be set.
Before we left for Raleigh I didn't know what to expect, but after being down there for several days and returning to Branford I was just reminded of how much I miss living down there. I could actually drive around and find fun roads and on top of that there was absolutely no traffic compared to what I encounter up here on a daily basis. I was in desperate need of a good drive so I called in a favor (or two) and borrowed something sporty to go for a little spin in for a bit one day - and it felt good.
When we were down there we had a meeting with our builder and went down to visit the lot where our new house will be built. I'm far more excited about building this house than I was the first one simply because this one was designed from the ground up by Vinney and I and it'll be our first house together. There's not much to look at on the lot itself just a lot of overgrown grass, but they just put stakes in the ground marking where the house was going to be and that was more than enough for me to look at. We met to approve the placement of the stakes but the feeling of standing where our future deck would be and looking out over the rest of the lot brought out a feeling of elation that just put a smile on my face. It's going to be a long and hard road to get this house built over the next year and a half, especially with us up in CT, but with the help of my mom and a lot of luck it should be a beautiful home for us to return to in 2006.
The lab is a mess up here (it always gets this way after a big article...especially if I hop on a plane after I'm done with it), so I'm going to spend a good part of today cleaning it up and getting things organized before I get to work...but work I will, I didn't get much done over Thanksgiving but I'm rested, relaxed and well fed, so there should be nothing holding me back.
Take care
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guidot - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
#8 that statement is not entirely true. My g/f owns a BMW that daddy didn't buy her and she is under 25. It all depends on how you use (or don't use) your money.Anonymous - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
#7: Anand would never disclose that. I am sure it is an expensive car considering that he was driving a BMW when he was 17. Besides, it would disclose his financial status.ksherman - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Hey Anand, what kinda car you drive? Ive always wondered what a rich person who spends their life on a computer would drive out in the real world... a Chevy Nova? (OCed of course! best bang for the buck!)Anonymous - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Yep, so that gives you an idea of his assets and the amount of advertisement revenue he generates from AnandTech every year.By the way, unknown authors don't make much. Even though Anand became the industry legend fairly quickly, I doubt that his publisher signed him up for too much money. Unless you are a well renowned author and a well liked author, you don't have very much value. You have to write tons of books (unless your first book gets featured on every news station and you are famous over night) in order to get rich from authoring books. :)
crtfanboy - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
let the jokes about "teen capitalist" commencecrtfanboy - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
http://www.gnextinc.com/capitalist/feature/toptyco...he's number 7 on teen capitalist's top 15 internet moguls under 30
and let's not forget all that money he made from that book of his:
http://store.worldsearch.com/the_anandtech_guide_t...
I wonder if I can get an autographed copy?
Anonymous - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link
By the way, I know this for a fact since I have a friend who works for a company that used to advertise on AnandTech not too long ago. I don't know about AnandTech, but TomsHardware charges around $20,000 for 1 million ad views per month, which is nothing. And let's not forget that TomsHardware serves close to 68 million page views a month so you can calculate their income somewhat. Of course, not all of their inventory is sold and people do block ads, so it's not like they are making $1.3 billion a month. LOLI would guess that AnandTech and TomsHardware make around $100,000 a month for sure, if not more.
Anonymous - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link
#1: If you know anything about the advertising industry and marketing, you know that companies spend millions of dollars on advertising every year. Let me give you a real-life example - if companies stop marketing, every product's price will be cut by 25%. 25% of the product's final price goes into marketing budget.And since AnandTech is one of the Top 3 hardware sites on in the world with close to 4 million readers, they make millions. Ever wonder how Anand manages to have 20 person staff for AnandTech. They are not working for free.
If you search online and read some of Anand's interviews, you know that Anand drove a $50,000 car when he was in high school and was making $55,000 at the age of 16 or 17 so he is DEFINITELY a millionaire right now.
Majority of AnandTech's staff consider their work at AnandTech a full time job and they get paid close to $40K to $45K a year (at least some of them do).
Neo - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link
"I was in desperate need of a good drive so I called in a favor (or two) and borrowed something sporty to go for a little spin in for a bit one day - and it felt good."You love teasing us don't you? Either that or you're afraid of the implications in devulging your "financial status".