Archive for July, 2007
Feed the War Machine
Monday, July 30th, 2007Not feeling so great about income taxes today, I researched a bit of history and found this video:
There, now I feel better. Wait… no I don’t.
The Simpsons
Friday, July 27th, 2007Oh, how I love The Simpsons. I’m going to see the movie tonight, despite that I feel destined for disappointment. Will it be all a Simpsons movie could be? Probably not.
But any way…
What I really like about The Simpsons is it’s irreverence towards… everything. One of my favorite moments is this song, sung my Mr. […]
A Personal Productivity Scaffold
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Recently I began reading the Steve Pavlina blog after a friend recommended it.
Today I came across an article on how to create a personal productivity scaffold. What a great idea! After reading the article, I have implemented one myself as a way of keeping up with my accounting books which are always lagging behind. […]
Scams
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007In response to my fraud warning, a friend of mine recently asked “if the thief took your data, how am I at risk?”
One scam I am aware of is this: The thief calls you, pretending to be a doctor or nurse at a hospital. He tells you that I have been hurt in an accident […]
Ideas to die for
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Dan Dennett talks about toxic memes and their virus-like ability to wipe out entire cultures. Dennett’s assertion that memes are, in some cases (communism, capitalism, Islam, Catholicism, and many more), essentially deadly parasites is an interesting perspective.
As interesting as Dennett’s ideas are, I tend to take a more simplistic view. While memes may be wiping […]
What’s missing from the local news
Sunday, July 1st, 2007When someone you know is involved in a news-worthy tragedy, you quickly find that the vast majority of local news sites are inadequate. For example: When a forest fire nearly burned down my mom’s house in South Carolina, all I could find was a quick blurb about it that didn’t even mention the fact that […]