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May
21st
Wed
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Cows Belching. Inconveniently.

Livestock Create 18% of Greenhouse Gases (It’s Not Just Burping Cows, But the Land Cleared for Them to Graze) Read more at The Daily Green
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May
18th
Sun
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Where's my stimulus payment check?

According to this IRS website, paper checks will be mailed as follows:

 Last two SSN digits:  Payments will be mailed no later than:
 00 through 09  May 16 
 10 through 18  May 23 
 19 through 25  May 30 
 26 through 38  June 6 
 39 through 51  June 13 
 52 through 63  June 20 
 64 through 75  June 27 
 76 through 87  July 4 
 88 through 99  July 11  

May
6th
Tue
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Constant Maturity Treasury Rates

MoneyCafe defines the 1 Year Constant Maturity Treasury Rate (CMT) as follows:

This index is an average yield on United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of 1 year, as made available by the Federal Reserve Board.  Yields are interpolated by the United States Treasury from the daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity, is based on the closing market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market.

(Note:  This rate is updated after the Federal Reserve releases its data on the first Monday of each month.)

Bankrate.com has weekly quotes of the 1, 5, 10 and more Constant Maturity Treasury Rate info. Plus, The Federal Reserve has historical data on the rates.

May
5th
Mon
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Our 5th day in May Celebration

Burger grilled perfectly.
Lettuce and mustard astutely harmonized.
Next, the pickles and onions were paired.
Finally, I syncho’d the mayo.
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Pachelbel Rant
May
3rd
Sat
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Garden gnomes and, rummy gnomes

As we know,
There are garden gnomes.
There are things about the gnome we know.
These are the known, gnomes.
There are also things about the … um, gnome that are unknown.
These are unknown, um gnomes.
Metronomes.
May
1st
Thu
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Ubuntu gets better with age

Every few months, I attempt to install Linux on one of my boxes. About a year or 2 ago, I was using Xandros for a few weeks. Last week (after Vista didn’t allow me to click on a button), I deleted Vista and installed Ubuntu 7.10, then updated to 8.04. I have no idea what the difference is between the 2 versions, but everything seems to be working.

My knees shake every now and then because I have no idea what’s going on inside my box, but, so far, the experience has been relatively painless for a newbie.

Installing new programs is 100 times easier than Windows.

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