Archive for October, 2008

Five things

  • October 31st, 2008
  • Posted in Lists

Five things I would like to see the government do in my lifetime: A balanced budget with 10% reparation to debtors and a total tax rate below 25% A simple straightforward tax code with a restructured IRS Voting machines that actually work without failure (simple programming, opensource) FDR era investment into infrastructure and JFK era investment into schools Space elevator… [ READ MORE ]

For fear alone

  • October 30th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

No man should be elected on the principals of fear. Any man proclaiming doom, has doomed themselves to failure. [ READ MORE ]

A thin line

  • October 22nd, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

Sometimes the only difference between breakfast and dessert is which direction the sun is headed. … As I looked into the well lit food case at Starbucks… I pondered how the hell dessert became breakfast. [ READ MORE ]

Uncertainty

  • October 21st, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

As I get older and, hopefully, more mature, there are a few things that are becoming more and more evident. One, people, as a group, rarely have the ability to get things done. Put 30 people in the room and very few people will be able to cogitate the big picture, fewer people [ READ MORE ]

It escapes me

  • October 15th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

I went to the dentist yesterday. Sitting in the torture chair, my gums bleeding from the dental rape cleverly labeled as “cleaning”, I was going to ask my dentist for a dental tourniquet. But the word tourniquet was not in my vocabulary. I had some vague memory of the word, it was on the end of my [ READ MORE ]

Internet relationships

  • October 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

As a party in many human relationships (my marriage, my family, my coworkers and my friends), it is sometimes a bit unsettling to compare it to the many online relationships that I have. It sounds dirty, but it really is innocuous. I am an administrator for a gaming community online… the community is focused primarily [ READ MORE ]

My Blackberry is dying

  • October 6th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

Every week my loyal and long lasting blackberry pearl appears to have a new quirk. One week the vibration stops working, instead, just issuing a high pitch squeal. The next week, the phone refuses to ring, although the profile has not changed. Most of the time a battery reseat fixes the issue. I need a [ READ MORE ]

Soooooo Albuquerque, huh?

  • October 2nd, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

I pity you. Pity usually reserved for three legged dogs and ugly babies. You sir, are swimming through that pool of sad disdain. [ READ MORE ]

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