December 2010
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How To Find Cheap Tires
If you wish to stretch your budget on your next set of tires you’ve got to do a little analysis before you can drive into the local tire store. Otherwise you will get stuck in that familiar pattern and end up paying more than you really wanted. You know the way it goes. You get to the front counter, someone shows you some tires, you pick the cheaper ones, they don’t keep these things...
August 2010
1 post
“We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control,...”
– George Tenet on 60 Minutes, 4/29/07
July 2010
1 post
“Don’t cook unfamiliar shit when you’re drunk”
– Dixie
June 2010
3 posts
Twelve Years of Stock Market Misery
If you invested in an Index Fund based on the S&P 500 Index on May 1 of 1998, congratulations. Your portfolio has neither lost nor gained a penny — of course if you factor in inflation, you’ve actually lost a lot of money. Twelve years, nothing but losses. Whether you were just getting started investing or you were entering your golden retirement years, that is one helluva...
“People had ideas, innovations, technology and the Stone Age ended. And not...”
– Richard Sears on planning for the end of oil (via TED.com) (via devinreams)
May 2010
2 posts
Trip recap
Just some factoids
8 days - 2969 miles
Average miles per day - 371
Acres of wheat in Kansas - 8.6 Million
Nights in Motel 6 - six out of seven
Android's Nearly Impossible Obstacles
I’m so tired of hearing everyone refer to Android as an ‘iPhone Killer’ - I sincerely doubt I would ever leave my iPhones behind for a linux-based phone OS. Here are the reasons why I, as an end-user, see no appeal in an Android phone:
1 - Head start - the iPhone was two years old by the time the first Android phones hit the market. Android will be playing catch-up for a long...
April 2010
2 posts
from my iPad
So I have a blog, I have an iPad, I have an Apple wireless (bluetooth) keyboard. Might as well make use of it, no?
Definitely easier to type this way, compared to the on-screen keyboard.
*LIKE*
March 2010
2 posts
Pregnant woman tasered for not signing a ticket! →
“Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!”
– George Washington, in a note to his gardener at Mount Vernon (1794), The Writings of George Washington, Volume 33, page 270 (Library of Congress)
February 2010
4 posts
“I’ll put it to you this way, you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and...”
– Jesse Ventura on the Larry King show
What Will People Say When I'm Gone?
The recent surprising and untimely death (is death ever timely?) of a local 21-year-old was sad, to be sure. Head-on collision, passenger in surgery, the other driver in ICU. But what caught my attention, and what made it even more sad to me, was the initial reaction of his Facebook friends. OK, sure, most of them probably knew him from school or from the wine bar where he worked, but many were...
Musings on the future of print media
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about how I might be able to somehow cash in on the whole iPhone/iPod/iPad phenomenon. Hell, I’d be happy to make $50 a month off of it. It’s a huge ecosystem. 80 MILLION devices so far, 3 BILLION apps downloaded. People who have never used the Objective C programming language before spend six weeks creating a game and get 4 MILLION...
January 2010
4 posts
The Magical and Revolutionary iPad
A lot of people just don’t get it yet. And I think there is a reason that almost every person on stage at the Apple event on Wednesday kept talking about holding it (the iPad) in your hands. They’ve been working on this for years, and they have come to understand that just *telling* or even showing someone an iPad doesn’t do it justice. They understand that only when you hold...
How T.O. Saved My Life
OK folks, I mentioned a rant, and here it is. And like any true rant, it isn’t necessarily well thought out, and it might end up not having much of a point, but after writing it, I feel better, and that’s what ranting is all about, right?
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“I don’t want to even think about how much C4 I can strap to my legs and...”
– Bruce Schneier, in an interview with Kip Hawley, head of TSA (April, 2007)
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as...”
– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
December 2009
1 post
Kickin' it old skool
You’d think I would learn to act my age. Last night the wife and I attended a concert where I’m quite sure we were the oldest people in the whole joint. It was loud, it was non-stop electro/dance/hip-hop. We were dressed to party, and we did! We took it easy on the alcohol which was good since it was an hour drive home after the concert was over. No, we didn’t even try the...
November 2009
3 posts
Cheese and Rice I Hate Puritans
So this morning I’m posting a recap of a recent trip to Big Bend on my favorite astronomy forum, and I did something bad. VERY bad. I used the word crap! Yes, that’s right, that evil vulgar word crap. I know it was bad, because the forum has a built-in automated censor function to prevent bad words from being seen by innocent cherubic youth so as to not corrupt them and send their...
“For in writing, the having-done outlasts the doer.”
– Christopher Cokinos - The Fallen Sky
“For in writing, the having-done outlasts the doer.”
– Christopher Cokinos - The Fallen Sky
July 2009
3 posts
PZ Myers and his angry ninja horde
You can read all about it here.
Personally, I think he’s given perhaps *too much* attention to these rubes, Mooney and Kirshenbaum, don’t you?
To make this trivial world sublime,
Take half a Gramme of phanerothyme
To fathom hell or soar angelic
Just take a pinch of psychadelic
Going to Extremes →
On the flight back from South America last week, the airline was showing Yes Man, a film starring Jim Carrey. Left to my own devices, I rarely finish a movie, but I watched the first…
June 2009
6 posts
Please send Becca to Antarctica!
Just register, click the verification link they send you, and vote. Easy.
http://www.blogyourwaytoantarctica.com/blogs/view/207
Boredom Begets Boredom →
S.B. left a comment on my last post that I’ve been thinking about all week:
“I don’t think human beings will stay happy very long if they aren’t doing something they feel is fulfilling to…
“…we choose to live like monks anyway (having taken no such vow of...”
– Rolf Potts, Vagabonding
“Music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. Alone on the...”
– Everett Ruess in a letter to Bill, April 18, 1931” - as quoted in Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty
Reserve A Spot In Hell - The Only Way to Guarantee... →
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May 2009
11 posts
Bush Fulfilled Bible Prophecy
At least that’s what *he* thought.
Evidently in 2003 he told French President Chirac “This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”
And you thought it was all about al Qaeda…..HAH!
http://ping.fm/2SIiD
Astronauts Spot Mysterious Ice Circles in World’s... →
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station noticed two mysterious dark circles in the ice of Lake Baikal in April. Though the cause is more likely aqueous than alien, some aspects of…
Wired.com Reports: How Game Design Can... →
Everyone complains about “e-mail overload” — getting so much stupid corporate e-mail that you miss out on important messages. But Byron Reeves has figured out a way to solve the problem.
How? By…
Orbitz Fights to Lift Cuba Travel Ban →
If you’re an American citizen with Cuba on your “to visit” list, your next stop after reading this article should be signing the travel ban petition Orbitz has created at www.OpenCuba.org. Lend your…
Final Ping.FM test
and now for the biggie, the ‘blogging’ feature test for Ping.FM. I need to type more than an update so I’ll take this opportunity to talk about Adam from American Idol again. He totally rocked the house with both Kiss and Queen. Yes, it’s a bit lame to see KISS doing their same old shtick, but it was fun. (but was anyone else creeped out by Gene Simmons’ psycho...
Tax GPS to save GPS? →
There’s news bubbling up about a potential crisis in our GPS systems. According to a new GAO report, a bunch of the satellites up there guiding our cars, geo-shagging applications, and soldiers might…
How to build a dinosaur →
I’ve been reading a new book by Jack Horner and James Gorman, How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn’t Have to Be Forever(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), and I was pleasantly surprised….
Jesus Phone Can't Have Jesus App, Apple Preaches →
Apple has rejected an iPhone app which let anyone plaster their face on a picture of Jesus. Apparently is contains “objectionable material” — your face? — though the only thing we think is…
The foot that may prove 'hobbits' existed →
A miniature species of extinct humans, nicknamed “hobbits”, possessed unusual anatomical features explained by their complete isolation from the rest of humanity for thousands of years on their…
Begin With a Single Step: Escape from Cubicle Hell →
There is no feeling that quite describes being stuck in a corporate office, worse yet, in a cubicle, when the sun is burning through a cloudless blue sky.
For seven years, I miraculously managed to…
April 2009
10 posts
“Christ the Narc today in drug world nonbelievers Matthew...”
– EXACT quote from pens placed on the McDonald’s counter by the local fundy evangelical freak. Closely matches the t-shirt he wears every single day, and his jacket.
Stop whining, start saving →
Woodward or bust
The drive to Woodward, OK is a long one. Tornados on film will make it seem like a country drive. No tornados will make it feel like a total beatdown.
Here’s to beautiful, photogenic, massive tornados that do no property damage and hurt no one.
Cold War Bunker Becomes Modern Mansion →
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“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
– Frank Sinatra
Photo of the Moment: Quite Curious Pelicans, Chile →
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Photo of the Moment: Quite Curious Pelicans, Chile