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What should I wear?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:48:00 -0400

Umm, *blush*, this is kind of embarrassing to admit, but I was wondering what is the appropriate dress for attending a symphony performance or the theater?

Has any journalist asked a question like "Where's all the Iraqi oil?"

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:37:00 -0400

Saudi’s say that they’re willing to pump more oil. What about some of those other countries that are sitting on 6 quadzillion barrels of the slime?

The greatest stealth tax increase in history

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:03:00 -0400

“The greatest thing to come out of [the Iraq war] for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That’s bigger than any tax cut in any country.” RM via RGE

FDA keeps location of pestiferous restaurant a secret

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:16:48 -0400

Oh geez. This is typical. Bloomberg reports that, although “Nine Salmonella Victims Ate at One Chain”, FDA officials ”declined to name the restaurant chain or location, saying the information is confidential and part of an ongoing investigation.”

Math Protests

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:34:13 -0400

Math Protests:

“On March 14th, 2008, at 1:59 PM, a massive horde* of computer science students marched on the math department at the University of Oregon.

For an hour and a half, they picketed Fenton hall, home of the math department, carrying signs, chanting slogans such as “No blood for Euler!” and “Calculus is only a theory,” and handing out an anti-mathocracy manifesto to math students, professors, and random passers-by.” Source The Great Pi Day Protest of 2008 via-tks gleuschk

1.0 v. 2.0

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:47:17 -0400

Finally it’s clear: I now understand the difference between web 1.0 and 2.0.

BusinessWeek is now BloggerWeek

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:41:00 -0400

Or, maybe CommieWeek, I don’t know.

There’s something about this article that I find slightly bizarre, outside the fact that it’s included in an issue about ‘blogging’, an endeavor that many find to be nonprofit.

The article is a rant about how Google makes too much money and BusinessWeek doesn’t, so society should redistribute Google’s implicitily unfair amout of profit back to the bloggers at BusinessWeek.

Or, BusinessWeek revenue should come from shaking down google. (It’s not that I like Google. The whole ”do no evil” schtick is … well, “only a sith deals in absolutes”.)

BusinessWeek is part of the Standard & Poor’s family — an organization rich in data and analysis about the business data. Instead of pushing their core of ’rich’ information and the insights of their expert analysts down through bw to the masses, they’ve elected to become yet another blog dump. Now they’re upset because the muck isn’t making the money it used to.

Gas would be cheap if infrastructure didn't suck so much.

Thu, 22 May 2008 09:21:00 -0400

Here’s an article that presents arguments as to why gas is cheap. The first commenter explains why the arguments are severely flawed:

I think the main problem is that the whole American public infrastructure in the last six decades has been built with the assumption of cheap gasoline. That’s why the population density within most American cities is very low when compared to Europe, and the suburbs sprawl out forever. That’s why there are few bicycle lines (and often not even sidewalks) along the streets, and the local public transportation system is often rudimentary and only covers a small part of the cities (and Amtrak is a joke - I was really surprised that Columbus didn’t have a passenger rail station despite (a) having a fairly large population and (b) an active rail line going through the city). Everything assumes that everybody is able to get anywhere with a car - and now that alternatives start making a lot more sense, such alternatives are hard to get by.

'ODF Wins the Office Document Format War?'

Thu, 22 May 2008 01:09:07 -0400

PCMag writes, “Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will bring improved XML support to the office suite — but it will be ODF, and not Microsoft’s own format.” Read More.

Cows Belching. Inconveniently.

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:56:15 -0400

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

Do I really trust you or is it just the Oxytocin kicking in...

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:00 -0400

Brain’s ‘Trust Machinery’ identified.

Where's my stimulus payment check?

Sun, 18 May 2008 09:34:26 -0400

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

Constant Maturity Treasury Rates

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:55:11 -0400

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.

Our 5th day in May Celebration

Mon, 05 May 2008 22:37:29 -0400

Burger grilled perfectly.
Lettuce and mustard astutely harmonized.
Next, the pickles and onions were paired.
Finally, I syncho’d the mayo.

Our 5th ay in May Celebration

Mon, 05 May 2008 22:36:49 -0400

Pachelbel Rant

Mon, 05 May 2008 11:22:04 -0400

Pachelbel Rant

Garden gnomes and, rummy gnomes

Sat, 03 May 2008 17:05:00 -0400

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.

Ubuntu gets better with age

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:33:00 -0400

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.

Yahoo Search Page good 'ol days

Thu, 01 May 2008 16:47:00 -0400

http://us.builder.search.yahoo.com is what http://search.yahoo.com used to be (when it was better).

Notebulb

What should I wear?

Has any journalist asked a question like "Where's all the Iraqi oil?"

The greatest stealth tax increase in history

FDA keeps location of pestiferous restaurant a secret

Math Protests

More JSTOR links

1.0 v. 2.0

BusinessWeek is now BloggerWeek

Gas would be cheap if infrastructure didn't suck so much.

'ODF Wins the Office Document Format War?'

Cows Belching. Inconveniently.

Do I really trust you or is it just the Oxytocin kicking in...

Where's my stimulus payment check?

Constant Maturity Treasury Rates

Our 5th day in May Celebration

Our 5th ay in May Celebration

Pachelbel Rant

Garden gnomes and, rummy gnomes

Ubuntu gets better with age

Yahoo Search Page good 'ol days