Seattle Seahawks!

Congrats to the world champion Seattle Seahawks!  They won the Super Bowl over the Denver Broncos by 43-8. Get awesome Seahawks gear from Amazon!

                             

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Super Bowl summary for those that missed it:

In the first quarter, the center snapped the ball past Peyton Manning, resulting in a safety.
Next, Steven Hauschka scored a 31-yard field goal.
Before the end of the first quarter, Hauschka scored another field goal to make it 8-0 Seahawks!

In Q2, Marshawn Lynch scored a touchdown on a 1-yard run.  Then Malcolm Smith had a 69-yard interception return!  Now it's 22-0 Seahawks!

In Q3, the Seahawks scored twice more, then Manning scored, 36-8 Seahawks.

In Q4, Baldwin caught a 10-yard pass from Wilson to result in the final of 43-8.

Favorite foods

Royal Asia Spicy Noodles with Shrimp

Found these at Costco in frozen section.  200 calories per 10oz bowl.  Has noodles, vegetables, wide noodles.  very yummy and healthy.


Ba-wan
Taiwanese meatball.  hard to find.  Available at Chou Mama's in Newark, CA.  A bit pricy.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba-wan

UGGs!

Ahh the world famous UGGs haha.  They're unisex sheepskin boots, though I usually see women wearing them.  One of the common styles in winter is Uggs with leggings.

On UggAustralia.com, you can customize your Uggs, and they also have stain and water repellent products for your boots.  They also have insoles and liners.  Though most of the Uggs I see are brown, they do have a variety of colors like black and gray.  

Wow they've even expanded to home products like area rugs, pillows, and throws.  

ULTA Beauty

As a guy I don't know too much about it, but I've heard friends and coworkers mention ulta.com.  It looks like they have a pretty broad cross section of products, like cosmetics, fragrance, haircare, skincare, bath and body products and salon styling tools.  

It's a $5 billion market cap company headquartered in Illinois. Its stores have a salon area that offers  hair cuts, hair coloring and permanent texture, facials, and waxing. ULTA looks like it is growing strongly, with revenue growing from $1.8 billion to $2.2 billion in its latest fiscal year.  

Verizon Broadband

I recently learned that Verizon.com offers broadband service to the home.  I had primarily thought of them as a wireless carrier.

Internet
Verizon offers high speed internet that beats the average cable provider, according to a 2008 PC Magazine survey.

Fiber Optics Internet
Verizon offers even faster internet by providing fiber optics straight to your home.  The service is called FiOS Internet.

TV
348 digital channels and 100 HD channels.

Verizon also has bundles combining the above at a discount.  Verizon is a $140 billion market cap company and is ranked #1 in the telecom industry in Fortune's 2013 list of the World's Most admired companies.  Nice!

ThinkGeek

ThinkGeek.com has some pretty cool stuff.  They have shoes with LED lights, shower caddies with the Dr. Who theme, mugs with designs from rainbow unicorns to Breaking Bad to Star Wars.

ThinkGeek has free shipping on orders $75 and above.

Some of their bestsellers are a special pen from the the Dr. Who show, and Firefly the board game.  Wow they even have a pivoting power strip for only $10!  When i saw these elsewhere they were usually a lot more expensive.  Haha they even have Star Trek: The Next Generation pajamas.

It looks like a lot of their bestsellers are from the Dr. Who TV show.  They also have a ring replica from the Lord of the Rings movie series.  Haha wow, they even have an ice mold that makes ice cubes in the shape of the Death Star from Star Wars!  Pretty creative.  And of course, they have Star Wars light sabers.

They also have this thing called the useless box, where when you flip the switch, the box opens slightly and this arm comes out and unflips the switch.  haha weird.  Another pretty cool thing is this electronic butterfly in a jar.  Looks like a real butterfly but it's electronic.

My favorite tire store: Tire Rack!

Ever since I've owned my own car, I've bought my tires from TireRack.com.  They have a really wide selection of products and they also do unbiased testing of tires.  The first set of tires I got from Tire Rack were Kumho Ecstas for my 2003 Nissan Altima.  The second set were for my 2011 Toyota Camry, also Kumho Ecstas.

The Kumho tires did quite well on the wet traction tests, and have a traction rating of AA, versus the A rating I saw on the original tires that came with the cars.  There's also a lot of education material on Tire Rack about when to replace your tires and other important things.  In addition to the scientific tire testing, there are also customer reviews for things like how comfortable the tires feel.

I had my tires delivered to my office, and it was really funny to see these 4 big tires sitting there at the office reception.  My coworkers had a good laugh too.

I've compared the tire prices and they're cheaper than any other places I saw.