August 2009
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Temporary Work
I got a call today from Smithgroup - where I worked last summer - and they want me to come in and work for for them for about a week and a half. Apparently they need help on a project that is a little behind. Of course I am hoping that it will turn into more than a week and a half, but we’ll see what happens. Worst case scenario is that I get some work. Not bad.
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July 2009
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Tmobile service has been down in our neighborhood for 3 days. I called tech support yesterday, and they said it could take 7 days to fix it!
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Sorry I burgled your house, alleged thief says -... →
I wish our burglar would come apologize…so I could punch him in the crotch.
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Utah boy goes for spin to avoid church - Weird... →
My friend Omar and I once ‘borrowed’ his Mom’s car to avoid church. But we were 16, not 7 years old.
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We were burgled.
On Monday morning, we came home from looking for new church shoes for Anne at the mall. When we got in the house, we noticed that there were two of our bags (a backpack and a clothing bag) out on the lawn by the back fence. I wondered why our bags were out on the lawn and my first thought was that Anne had drug the bags out there. Then I noticed that the back sliding door was wide open and we both...
RT @rainnwilson: ‘Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.’ -Mike Tyson
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Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes : NPR →
NASA long ago ‘taped over’ the original Apollo 11 tapes, and we are left with inferior copies…woops.
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“Indeed, these employers will benefit from an increase in the minimum wage...”
– Marginal Revolution: Raising Rival’s Costs (via clint)
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Disneyland in China? | Japan Probe →
“Some have claimed that the park is illegally copying Disney’s Minnie Mouse. However, the park’s operators have insisted that the character on the right is not a mouse. It is a cat with very large ears!”
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Strange! Humans Glow in Visible Light - Yahoo!... →
“Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals. “
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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
– George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose
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Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed -... →
“This is where all the money is getting made,” said William H. Donaldson, former chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange and today an adviser to a big hedge fund. “If an individual investor doesn’t have the means to keep up, they’re at a huge disadvantage.”
This article details yet another reason why I believe index funds are the only reasonable choice for small investors.
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2 N.J. Mayors Arrested in Broad Inquiry on... →
Corruption in New Jersey? Unpossible!
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ObamaCare in Trouble - WSJ.com →
A nice summary of the challenges Obama faces in socializing health care in America.
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The Big Book of Everything →
“What is the Big Book of Everything?
In a nutshell, it is a notebook filled with all of the information anyone could possibly need to know about you. The idea is that in our lives we have countless things that we are involved in. On rare occasions, other people need this information and no one knows how to get it. That’s where the Big Book comes in. By filling this out and keep...
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Senate Votes to Eliminate Money for Additional... →
“The Senate voted 58-40 on Tuesday to strip $1.75 billion for seven more F-22 fighters from a military authorization bill, handing President Obama a crucial victory in his efforts to reshape the military’s priorities.”
I think this is a good move. We need to cut spending wherever we can, and fiscal conservatism applies to military spending too. Especially when our largest threat is no...
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Budget Agreement Puts California Dream on Hold -... →
In a rare occurrence, California has enacted “$30 billion in cuts over two fiscal years to schools, colleges, health care, welfare, corrections, recreation and more.”
When I am at airports, it seems like everyone but me is an alien.
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Apple, RIM Outsmart Phone Market - WSJ.com →
“iPhone’s manufacturer Apple and BlackBerry’s Research In Motion … accounted for only 3% of all cellphones sold in the world last year but 35% of operating profits.”
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““I believe what I said yesterday. I don’t know what I said, but I...”
– Donald Rumsfeld Quotes - Funny Rumsfeld Quotations - Rumsfeldisms
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Mormons Defend Trademark Action →
Anne modeling her outfit ▼
She picked it out herself.
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Socialist America sinking →
“In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called George III a tyrant for having “erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”
What did George III do with his Stamp Act, Townshend Acts or tea tax to compare with what is being done to this generation of Americans by their own...
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A Prescription for the Goose… - WSJ.com →
“Yesterday [Sen. Coburn] successfully pressed the Senate Health Committee to approve his idea of requiring Members of Congress themselves to enroll in whatever “public plan” is passed to compete with private insurance companies.
This is a brilliant maneuver, and when they inevitably try to strip it from the bill, the public should demand accountability.
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Healthcare Is "Not a Right" and Obama's Plan Will... →
“Don’t be mistaken, he’s very clear to point out, he is in favor of all citizens receiving medical care. “I want everybody to have maximum care at the best price. And that’s why I want the government out of it completely.”“
Got off the phone with a tech support ‘bot’ for Cox Internet. And the bot was much easier to work with than most tech support humans.
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Job interview on Monday. Time to put on the game face.
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House bill to hit millionaires with 5.4 pct... →
If you make over $1mil / year you can afford it. But at what point is it too much?
“Perhaps empty, foreclosed houses should be transformed into, say, zoos for the displaced native species of the region” http://bit.ly/FV5Bp
If you want to sound smart, use the word ‘Keynesian’ when discussing the economy. #soundsmart
“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the...”
– William Osler (via livejamie)
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Goldman Sachs Likely to Post Huge Profits,... →
The article ominously describes that Goldman Sachs is profitable again so soon after being bailed out. I don’t know how this could be seen as anything other than good news - unless one has enjoyed watching Goldman get their perceived ‘comeuppance’ for years of hubris.
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Why There Should Be More Oil Speculation, Not Less... →
“We can put a price tag on the whole market: for a mere $4 billion, you can easily control the fate of the entire multi-trillion dollar industry. Goldman Sachs pays out more than that in annual bonuses.”
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Experimental Diet a Fountain of Youth for Monkeys... →
“Fed a diet that provided adequate nutrition on 30 percent fewer calories than is considered normal, the monkeys have largely escaped the ravages of heart disease, cancer and other age-related diseases.”